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Configuring the SharePoint Server service group involves the following tasks:
Creating a parallel service group for the SharePoint Web Applications running on the front-end Web servers.
Creating service groups for SharePoint Service Applications or services locally on the application servers.
Use the VCS SharePoint Server 2013 Configuration Wizard to create the required service groups and its resources and define the attribute values for the configured resources.
Note the following before you proceed:
The wizard discovers the Web Applications, Service Applications, and services in the farm where the local node resides and then configures them in the service groups.
The wizard automatically configures all the discovered SharePoint applications and services configured in the local cluster farm. With the new SharePoint Server 2013 wizard, you can also select the stopped services which you want to configure in the service application service group. If you do not want to configure an application or a service, host it on a server outside the local cluster.
The wizard has a single workflow that performs service group creation as well as modification tasks. If you wish to add or remove a SharePoint component from the configuration, you must run the wizard again. If you run the wizard after configuring the SharePoint service groups, the wizard modifies the existing service group configuration. The wizard rediscovers the SharePoint configuration in the farm and then adds or removes resources depending on the changes made.
For example, if you add a node to the server farm, the wizard adds the required resources and service groups to the configuration. If an application is removed from the server farm, the wizard removes the corresponding resources from the service group and also updates the VCS configuration.
If you have configured the Web Applications and Service Applications in different clusters, then you must run the configuration wizard once from a node in each cluster.
After configuring the SharePoint service groups, you can add custom resources such as IP or NIC to monitor the network availability of the cluster nodes in the configuration. You can add these resources manually from the Cluster Manager (Java Console).
If you run the wizard again, these custom resources are ignored.