Chapter 6: Finalizing the Farm – Going Live

Finalizing the farm to "go live" is the last step of the process of supporting the release of your new farm. Within this book, you will find two chapters about the "go live" aspects of your implementation. This is due to the amount of instruction needed to prepare you for your "go live" date. There are a few steps that we still need to complete related to installation, the configuration of services, and overall configuration, which we will cover in this chapter; but what you will also see in this chapter is that there are many areas that we still need to configure to complete the core system.

You will see, while dealing with those lingering configurations, that migration is not the last thing we need to do. There are other areas of preparedness that need to be addressed, as is the case with the setup of development and testing environments. We need to handle any custom configurations that may have been...