we will start in sharepoint Configuration category and i will Divides it into parts :

Part1 : SharePoint Configuration and join Servers on Farm :

This is a walkthrough guide for setting up the infrastructure for Rasheed SharePoint Farm. The farm topology is as shown in the following figure:

Requirements

Hardware requirements

- (2) machines to setup SharePoint : (1) is Application server and (2) machines web servers to apply load balancing between it .

- (1) machine to setup sqlserver : contain principle DB

Software requirements

Following are the software packages required during the installation:

- Windows Server 2008 R2.

- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (x64).

- Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2010.

IP addresses

- SqlServer need an IP address.

- Each sharepoint server have IP address

Configuring your 1st domain controller in your forest:

I’ve Disabled Firewall and UAC (User Account Control) on all the machines. I’ve renamed the Computer names to WFE1, SQLPActive. By default Windows comes up with some goofy names! To rename your computer, Right click on My computer – >Properties->change settings ->change button(system properties window) and give a name and OK ->OK. Reboot Server.

In my case I’ll assume that WFE1 will contain my Active Directory

Note : this will change in advanced part when using clusters or Database mirroring

Very Very Imp: My NIC Settings on WFE1 Machine

Go to your WFE1 machine and Start ->Run and type “dcpromo” without double quotes.
You will be welcomed with the below screen.

Note: BTW, if you want that background information what I’m pulling on my Desktop you can download a software called “BGINFO”:)

Now, let’s proceed further by clicking Next -> Next. You should be getting the screen as shown below.

Choose Create a New domain in a forest. Give a name(FQDN) for your domain.(I’ve chosen test.local in my case). Choose Forest Functional level as 2008 as shown below and click Next(we would not have any issue because all of our servers are running on Windows Server 2008).

Select DNS Server and proceed further as shown below.

It might pop up a warning message, you can ignore that for our lab. In the Next Screen it asks for Active Directory Database locations and Sysvol locations. Leave it to default and proceed further. It’ll ask to configure Directory mode Restore Admin Password. Choose a strong pwd and proceed next. If everything goes well up to this point, you should be seeing the below screen

It will take some time to do all configuration required behind the scenes and configure all our settings. Finish and Restart. Once you restart the machine, you should be seeing, the machine is part

of a Domain called “test”, not anymore a work group member.

Now, if you go to Start->Administrative tools, you will be seeing all the Active Directory related stuff being created on our Domain Controller.

Joining Other Servers(SQLPActive) to Domain:

Okay! Now it’s time to join our two other machines SQLPActive to our newly created domain.
I’ll show you joining SqlPActive .

Joining SQLPActive to test.com Domain:

My NIC Settings for SQLPActive machine:

IP : 192.9.200.181

DNS:192.9.200.72

Change Member of Workgroup to Domain as shown below. (In my case I’ve created a domain called test.com)

Once you click Ok, it will ask for credentials which have necessary permissions to add new servers to domain. In my case I’ve chosen the Domain Admin account to perform this task. If everything has been followed accurately till now, you should be seeing the below display message.(A reboot is required to apply these changes)