I am a bit late on writing about this but nevertheless, I think I have some useful information to share. I needed a demo system for my SharePoint 2010 talk at Bangalore IT Pro user group meet tomorrow. For this purpose, I started installing SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 laptop. I knew that there are a few issues with SharePoint 2010 standalone deployments on Windows 7. You can read about it here.
Before you get started with the install, here is a quick note about using SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (as posted on MSDN)
The development environment that you create by using these instructions will not support SharePoint farm installations, and you should not host active production sites with this configuration. These instructions will enable you to get started with an environment that is specifically suited to developing SharePoint custom solutions.
Now to the real stuff
There is a prerequisite installer included with SharePoint 2010. However, this won’t run on Windows 7. For installing SharePoint 2010, you need the following prerequisites. You can follow the links mentioned here to download each of the required components.
1. Extract SharePoint 2010 files in to C:\SharePoint2010 or any folder of your choice. You can do this by running
officeserver.exe /extract:C:\SharePoint2010
2. Download and store all the below software components to C:\SharePoint2010\PrerequisiteFiles folder
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client
Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0
Microsoft “Geneva” Framework
Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0
Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2
3. Install server roles required by running the following command.
Ravi’s Note: You can copy (remove line breaks) the following lines in to a .bat file (for ex, Windows-Roles.bat) and save it for later use
start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;
IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;
IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;
IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;
IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;
IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;
IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;
IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;
IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;
WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;
WCF-NonHTTP-Activation
3. Install the following prerequisite software from C:\SharePoint2010\PrerequisiteFiles folder
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client
Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0
Microsoft “Geneva” Framework
Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0
Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2
Ravi’s Note: At this point if you try to run setup.exe, you will get an error message that Windows 7 is not a supported Opearting System.
4. Edit C:\SharePoint2010\files\setup\config.xml file to insert the following XML content
<Configuration>
<Package Id=”sts”>
<Setting Id=”SETUPTYPE” Value=”CLEAN_INSTALL” />
</Package>
<DATADIR Value=”%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server
Extensions\14\Data” />
<Logging Type=”verbose” Path=”%temp%” Template=”Microsoft Windows
SharePoint Services 4.0 Setup *.log” />
<PIDKEY Value=”Replace_with_your_PID” />
<Setting Id=”UsingUIInstallMode” Value=”1″ />
<Setting Id=”SETUP_REBOOT” Value=”Never” />
<Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>
</Configuration>
The key to installing SharePoint2010 on Windows 7 is this line in the XML.
Ravi’s Note: This XML configuration is case-sensitive.
<Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>
5. Start SharePoint 2010 install using the below command-line
C:\SharePoint2010\setup.exe /config c:\SharePoint2010\Files\Setup\config.xml
6. Once the install is complete, uncheck the Run SharePoint configuration wizard option and click finish.
7. Install SQL Server 2008 KB 970315 x64 from c:\SharePoint2010\PrerequisiteFiles folder
8. Run the SharePoint 2010 configuration wizard now. This will fail at step 8 with a message “Failed to create sample data”. At this point, exit the wizard and restart the system.
9. Install WCF Fix for R2 and Win7 from C:\SharePoint2010\PrerequisiteFiles folder
10. Restart the system
11. Re-run SharePoint 2010 configuration wizard again.
This should completely successfully.
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5. Start SharePoint 2010 install using the below command-line
C:\SharePoint2010\setup.exe /config c:\SharePoint2010\Files\Setup\config.xml
Hi,
Could you please specify what option — standalone or farm — you selected at this step? I’m doing a development install of sp server 2010 on win 7 machine.
Thanks
Sorry. This went in to my spam queue for some reason. I used Standalone install method
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