Configuring SharePoint 2013 service applications

- Now, it's time to configure the Service Applications.…Now, this is another place where we very much…differ from production.…In a production environment, generally,…I would click Cancel…and configure everything by myself.…However, this is a testing and development environment.…I'm going to take advantage of the Wizard…which will essentially get everything…up and running for me.…I can then come back later…and customize things that I'd like to…about this particular deployment.…One of the cool things about the Wizard…is I just provide it some information and it just goes.…

I'm going to go ahead and click Start the Wizard.…Now, it's asking for a Service Account.…This is that SPService Account that I created earlier…in Active Directory.…I'm going to say "SHAREPOINT\SPService"…and then I'm going to enter the password.…Now, couple of things.…Normally, I would only check the boxes…of those service applications…that I knew I was going to be using…in the SharePoint deployment.…However, being that this is a testing…and development and learning environment,…