Just looked through the manual again. P50 is a good place to go for a list of ‘Basic Admin Tasks’, and the places to go in the manual for each of them.
Also, BC1111 posted a pretty succint setup guide, very much along the lines of what I was thinking (at least for the initial setup):
That features the same advice: turn off everything you don’t need before you try to transfer bulk data to the thing. Then turn on the features you actually want.
