After you install the prerequisites for SharePoint
2010, you are ready to perform the installation of SharePoint 2010.
Remember that you can install either SharePoint Foundation 2010, or you
can install SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition or Enterprise Editions;
which edition you install is determined by the product key you supply
during the installation.
Both SharePoint
Foundation 2010 and SharePoint 2010 installations are performed in two
phases. In the first phase, the binaries of the SharePoint installation
are installed, and in the second phase, you actually create the
SharePoint farm. Furthermore, each installation has other options that
you need to be familiar with to ensure that your farm is built to
handle the capacity you anticipate it will encounter.
1. SharePoint 2010 GUI Installations
You can perform two types of
SharePoint 2010 installations: Standalone and Complete. Making the
correct choice here has a major impact on the scalability of SharePoint
2010. The following sections discuss how to install the Standalone and
Complete installation options of SharePoint 2010. It also guides you
through the steps involved in both installations.
1.1. SharePoint 2010 Standalone Installation
The Standalone, or single
server, installation option for SharePoint 2010 will create everything
for you with minimal prompts during the installation, and it prevents
you from adding other servers or building a farm. This installation
type should only be used in the following situations.
To evaluate SharePoint 2010 features and functionality
To create a test environment
To deploy a small number of websites with minimal administrative overhead
This installation type is not recommended for a production environment, and it has several limitations, including the following.
It installs SQL Server Express 2008, which has several limitations including
It installs Central Administration using default settings.
It generates a random Central Administration port number.
It
creates the configuration database using a default database name of
SharePoint_config_GUID (Globally Unique Identifier, that is randomly
generated), and all commonly used service application databases.
It creates a home site collection with the default database name.
1.1.1. Phase One of SharePoint 2010 Standalone Edition Installation
The following steps
and illustrations guide you through the installation of SharePoint 2010
when you select the Standalone, or single server, edition.
Start the SharePoint 2010 installation using one of the methods discussed in the section titled Section 4.1 earlier in this article, which will display the page shown in Figure 1.
Under the Install category, click Install SharePoint Server, which momentarily presents the SharePoint file preparation page
Shortly
after the file preparation page appears, you are prompted for the
product key. The product key you enter here determines which functions
will be enabled for you after the installation completes. An Enterprise
level product key enables all functionality, whereas a Standard level
product key installs the same functionality as the Enterprise but
doesn’t enable the functionality that is only available in the
Enterprise edition. Enter the product key in the text box provided, as
shown in Figure 2.
The
product key is validated, and if it is a valid product key, the
Continue button becomes active, which allows you to continue to the
license agreement page. You must select the check box to indicate that
you accept the terms to make the Continue button on this page active;
click the button to go to the next page of the installation.
The installation types shown in Figure 3
determine how much default configuration is performed for you during
the installation. For this installation, click Standalone. Remember
that means this is a single server installation and that the entire
farm will reside on this one machine. Also remember there are several
limitations in the Standalone installation, so be careful when making
this choice.
After
clicking the Standalone button, you will see the Installation Progress
page for several minutes as the installation of SharePoint and SQL
Server 2008 Express is performed for you.
When the installation is
complete, the SharePoint product and SQL Server Express are installed,
and phase one of the installation is complete. By default, the
SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard opening page shown in Figure 4
has the option to begin the second stage of your SharePoint farm
configuration. Phase two of the installation requires that you use the
Active Directory SharePoint farm account that has the two required SQL
Server privileges of dbcreator and securityadmin.
These will be required for the account with which you are performing
the installation in order for phase two to complete successfully.
In phase two of the
Standalone installation, you will encounter major differences in the
prompts that are presented to you and the farm configuration tasks that
are performed, compared to a Complete installation. There are
substantially more tasks completed for you during the farm
configuration when you choose the Standalone option.
Note:
You can clear the check box on
the opening page of the wizard and instead begin the Configuration
Wizard graphical interface at a later time by executing the Psconfigui.exe file located in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN directory.
