4.2. Internet Prerequisite Graphical User Interface Installation
You can also run the SharePoint 2010 prerequisite installer using a graphical user interface (GUI),
which lets you automatically download and install prerequisite software
from the Internet. To do this, either run Setup and select Install
Software Prerequisites from the startup screen or double-click the
extracted Prerequisiteinstaller.exe file.
4.2.1. Using the Prerequisiteinstaller.EXE GUI to install prerequisites
If you decide to use Prerequisiteinstaller.exe, complete the following steps.
Locate
the file in the directory where you extracted it and double-click the
Prerequisiteinstaller.exe file to open the Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Products Preparation Tool Welcome page, shown in Figure 1. Click Next.
The License Terms for Software Products page shown in Figure 2
appears and requests that you agree to the licensing for each of the
software components that will be installed by the Preparation Tool.
Select the check box next to the option I Accept The Terms Of The
License Agreement(s) to continue. Be sure to read the licensing
agreement before choosing to agree to it and then click Next.
After
clicking Next on the License Agreements page, the prerequisites begin
to install, and the progress is displayed to show you the items that
are being installed and how long the prerequisite installation has been running, as shown in Figure 3.
After all the prerequisites are installed, you see the final page, shown in Figure 4,
that displays the products that were installed. If there were any
errors during the installation, you will see them displayed on the
Installation Complete page. If there aren’t any errors that you need to
resolve, or if you have documented the errors encountered during the
installation and you are ready to exit the Preparation Tool, click
Finish.
4.2.2. Using the Setup.exe GUI to install prerequisites
If you decide to use Setup.exe
from either the SharePoint Foundation 2010 or the SharePoint 2010
installation, locate the file in the directory where you extracted it
and double-click the file to open the SharePoint installation startup
screen. The startup screen for both editions of SharePoint contains the
same three categories with the following seven self-explanatory options.
Prepare
Install
Other Information
View Windows Update
Visit product website
Figure 5
shows the startup screen that displays when you double-click Setup.exe
in the directory that contains the files you extracted for an
installation of SharePoint Foundation 2010. Note that the second option
in the Install category is Install SharePoint Foundation.
Note:
You can also display this
setup start screen by double-clicking the Sharepoint.exe (or the file
name specific to your installation type) file in the directory that
contains the SharePoint Foundation files that were extracted using the
steps discussed in the section titled Section 4.2.4.1 earlier in this chapter.
If you are installing SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition, double-click Setup.exe
in the directory that contains the extracted SharePoint 2010 files to
display a setup start screen similar to the one shown in Figure 5 for SharePoint Foundation 2010. However, this page, shown in Figure 6, displays SharePoint 2010 as the title, and it includes the option to Install SharePoint Server.
Note:
You can also display this
setup screen by double-clicking the Sharepoint.exe (or the file name
specific to your installation type) file in the directory that contains
the same SharePoint Server files that were extracted using the steps
previously discussed in the section titled Section 4.2.4.1 or by inserting the DVD that contains the SharePoint 2010 software.
