About SP2013 farm configuration wizard

Question

Once we have installed SP2013 binary and completed product configuration wizard, login to Central Admin page, it will ask you to launch the Farm Configuration Wizard.

Everytime I ran it, after select the services I need, it will jump to a page saying "Working on it... This shouldn't take long". But every time it keep me waiting. My questions are:

1. According to my understanding, the wizard is trying to setup different service application. The timer job will keep running the setup even though I close the browser. So it is safe to just close the browser and work on other configuration in Central Admin?
2. Anyway to monitor the progress of wizard?
3. After I completed the Product configuration wizard and start the Central Admin first time, should I login with the install account or the farm admin? Will it make any different?

Answer 1

First As per my experience i would highly recommend don't to use the farm configuration wizard for provisioning all services apps. I always run it 1st time for state service.

1. Yes you can close it, it will not effect the anything.
2. You can check the progress from Check Running job status section of Monitoring
3. it really doesn't matter under which account you login. But it depend what you are doing, i.e if you are provisioning the UPS services you need to login with farm admin account