1.2. SharePoint Foundation 2010 Standalone Installation
The Standalone
installation of SharePoint Foundation 2010 is quite similar to the same
installation for SharePoint 2010 Standalone edition. The differences
you will see during the installation itself are as follows.
The installation pages will say SharePoint Foundation 2010 instead of SharePoint 2010 throughout phase one.
You will choose Install SharePoint Foundation.
You are not prompted for a product key (this version is free).
This installation automatically creates a top-level website using the Team Site template.
After completing the installation, some of the most noticeable differences you will see include the following.
1.3. SharePoint 2010 Complete Installation
As you saw in the
previous sections about SharePoint 2010 Standalone installation, there
are several limitations when you choose the Standalone
installation option. However, it does perform several additional tasks
that aren’t performed when you choose the Complete installation option.
These additional tasks include installing SQL Server 2008 Express,
creating several service applications, and creating your first site
collection. None of these tasks occur automatically if you perform a
Complete installation, so you must perform these tasks manually after
the installation is finished.
4.3.1.3.1. Phase One of SharePoint 2010 Complete Edition Installation
The following responses
and figures are used to perform a Complete installation of SharePoint
2010. This is the preferred installation type and it is similar to the
Standalone installation, but it provides much more scalability,
performance, and reliability in your SharePoint 2010 server farm.
However, the Complete installation does require you to have SQL Server
already installed, which you will be asked to confirm during the
Complete installation of SharePoint 2010.
Phase one of the
SharePoint 2010 Complete installation is very similar to the first
phase of the Standalone installation. In fact, the first five pages you
see are exactly the same in both installations. However, when you
choose Server Farm on the SharePoint 2010 installation type page shown
in Figure 13, you will then see some additional pages in phase one that were not part of the Standalone installation.
Click the Server Farm button to open the Server Type page shown in Figure 14.
This page gives you two options: you can select a Complete installation
(which is what you will select here), or there is another opportunity
for you to choose the Stand-alone option, which performs the Standalone
installation discussed in the section titled Section 1.1 earlier in this article.
Optionally, you can click the File Location tab to display the file location page shown in Figure 15.
On that page, you can specify the location of the SharePoint 2010
product files as well as the directory that will contain the search
index if the server where you are performing the installation is going
to be used as a search server.
After clicking the Install
Now button, you see the same two wizard pages that appeared during the
Standalone installation indicating the progress and then completion of
the installation. When the first phase of the installation is complete,
the SharePoint 2010 product files have been successfully installed. By
default, the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard page provides you
with the option to begin the second phase of the installation, your
SharePoint Server 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, dbcreator and
securityadmin. You must have these privileges for the account you are
using to perform the installation with in order for phase two to
complete successfully.
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.
