Installing Sharepoint 2010

Posted in: Blog, SharePoint 2010 | Jan 10, 2013 at 8:57 PM

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At this time of writing: Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 11:25pm I actually haven’t got my new laptop yet! Because I was away to overseas for holiday for about a month, the laptop was still held at custom. Anyway, it will be delivered on the coming Tuesday.

Therefore, at the moment I try to install Sharepoint 2010 using my 3GB-RAM laptop running VMWare with 1GB RAM. I want to prove if the 4GB-RAM-at-least requirement is actually valid.

My current old laptop has the following configurations:

– Intel Core Duo T9300 @ 2.50GHZ

– 3GB RAM

– 320GB 5400 RPM hard drive

– 320GB 5400 RPM External hard drive 3.5″ (VM hard disks are on this drive)

I can only dedicate 1GB of RAM to the VM because I’ve already got MOSS 2007, VS 2005, 2008, SQL, other dev tools, etc running on the host machine and they already consume almost 2GB of RAM.

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I started the installation by visiting my best friend: Google.

I then came across the following article:

http://mosshowto.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-sharepoint-2010-windows-2008.html

Based on the article above, below were the steps I took:

1. Installing and configuring Windows Server 2008 x64 on my VMWare virtual machine as per the article.

2. Installing IIS, .NET 3.5, etc through Add/Remove Roles and Features.

3. Running Windows update.

4. Installing SQL Server 2005 x64 then the SP3.

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5. I stop at this point and backup my VM just in case something wrong happens during the SP2010 installation process.

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6. I decided to go down the path of not using AD. I created 2 local accounts: WINSERVER2008\SPT_Admin and WINSERVER2008\SPT_Farm. I added these two accounts as local admin of the VM and to SQL 2005 with the following roles: dbcreator and securityadmin. I then logged in as WINSERVER2008\SPT_Admin to install sP2010.

7. As per the article, I installed the Geneva framework then the Sync framework.

8. I then installed the WCF fix (as per article, too) but it failed saying: The update does not apply to your system. I think it’s because my Win Server 2008 version was not the R2 version. Therefore, I installed the patch for Win Server 2008 SP2 from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx (Determine hardware and software requirements article) instead.

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I’m now ready to install SP2010.

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9. I double-clicked on the executable and install the SP2010 software pre-requisites first.

10. There were some errors I needed to fix. They were all related to missing components. The missing components I encountered were:

– SQL 2008 Native Client (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718&clcid=0x409)

– PowerShell V2 CTP3 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c913aeab-d7b4-4bb1-a958-ee6d7fe307bc)

– MSChart (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=130F7986-BF49-4FE5-9CA8-910AE6EA442C&displaylang=en)

– Filter Pack (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en)

– SQL 2008 Analysis Service ADOMD.NET (http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/0/AD021EF1-9CBC-4D11-AB51-6A65019D4706/SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi)

I then re-ran the pre-requisites install and it all went good.

11. I clicked on the installation link and it installed SP2010 correctly. The beta key can be obtained from http://www.whatsthepointofsharing.com/?p=586. Please note that my VM is still running 1GB of RAM and it has no problem installing SP2010.

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