SharePoint 2010 Installation, Configuration and Operation Best Practices

• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692.aspx
   , provides advice on how to get and keep your environment up and running. This list is created by members of the Microsoft Consulting Services team.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850694.aspx
   , provides advice for the IT Pro how to keep team collaboration sites manageable. Created by Microsoft Consulting Services.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262706.aspx
   , discusses how to keep My Sites manageable. Created by Microsoft employees.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292621.aspx
   , discusses content deployment best practices. Created by Microsoft employees.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292622.aspx
   , SQL Server 2008 best practices. Created by Microsoft employees.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh377942.aspx
   , People and Profiles. Created by MS employees.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx
   , Search. Created by MS employees.
• 
  http://seclists.org/basics/2008/Sep/225
  , general considerations regarding service accounts.
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8217.sharepoint-2010-crawl-database-is-too-large.aspx
  , discusses what to do when the crawl database becomes too large.
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7999.sharepoint-2010-strategies-for-handling-historical-data-in-custom-lists.aspx
  , how to handle historical data in lists?
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10550.sharepoint-2010-best-practices-ad-groups-or-sharepoint-groups.aspx
  , should you choose to use AD groups or SharePoint groups?
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8778.sharepoint-2010-best-practices-is-sharepoint-designer-really-pure-evil.aspx
  , musings about the advantages of SPD.
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8723.sharepoint-2010-best-practices-list-throttling.aspx
  , be careful with list throttling settings.
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9628.sharepoint-2010-best-practice-row-limits-in-external-lists.aspx
  , row limits in external lists.
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9950.sharepoint-2010-best-practice-troubleshooting-an-ssrs-report-that-times-out-en-us.aspx
  , troubleshooting SSRS reports.
• 
  http://www.gokanozcifci.be/subsite/how-to-install-sharepoint-2010-with-sql-2012-on-windows-server-8.html
  , installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012.
• 
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11177.sharepoint-2010-best-practices-removing-sharepoint-from-servers.aspx
  , explains how to remove SharePoint in a clean and orderly fashion.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662513.aspx
   , least privileges for administrative and service accounts.
• 
  http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/installing-sharepoint-2010-privilege-service-accounts/
   , least privilege model for service accounts.
• 
  http://en.hugon.ws/articles/sharepoint-2010/using-the-service-accounts-with-least-privilege-to-run-sharepoint-2010/
   , least privilege user accounts.
• 
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863.aspx
   , account permissions and security settings.
• 
  http://www.sharepointblog.co.uk/2012/06/quickly-create-sharepoint-service-account/
  , a PowerShell script for quickly
  creating SharePoint service accounts.