How to Install SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7

In my previous articles i explained Asp.NET, C#.NET, jQuery. In this article i was explaining how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 OS.

Please follow the below steps carefully.

Installing SharePoint Foundation on Windows 7 64 bit

Please install Visual Studio 2010 first (Software location will be provided)

For installing SharePoint Foundation (Software location will be provided), please follow the steps mentioned in this document in that order.

Copy the SharePointFoundation.exe installation file to c:\SharePointFiles (This is important)

Extract the installation files by opening a Command Prompt window, and then typing the following command at the directory location of the folder where you copied the installation files in the previous step. Please follow the below screen shot:

Open command prompt and go to c:\SharePointFiles as shown below

Then type  SharePointFoundation /extract:c:\SharePointFiles\ as shown in screen shot below

Then the files will be extracted to C:\SharePoint files as shown below

Using a text editor such as Notepad, open the installation configuration file, config.xml, located in the following path: c:\SharePointFiles\files\Setup\config.xml

Add the following setting as it is under configuration tab: (This is case sensitive)

      <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>

Save and close the config.xml

Then open the command prompt and install Microsoft FilterPack 2.0 by typing

c:\SharePointFiles\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\FilterPack\FilterPack.msi (screen shot below)

Next step is to copy paste the below text(as it is) at the command prompt as show in the screen show below:

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-ManagementScriptingTools;^

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

It takes a while to enable the features. After the process is done please open the control panel to make sure all the features are enabled: Please follow below steps:

1.       Open Control Panel

2.       Click on Programs

3.       Click on Turn Windows Features on or Off

4.       Make sure the features below in the next two screen shots are enabled

After checking that the features are enabled, Please RESTART your machine.

After restarting the machine, to install SharePoint Server 2010 or SharePoint Foundation 2010, open a Command Prompt window, and then type the following at the command prompt:

Click on STANDALONE

After installation, Please close the wizard after unchecking the checkboxRun the SharePoint Products Configuration wizard

      

Next step is to install Windows Identity Foundation. Download link will be provided.( File name will be Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu)

After installing Windows Identity Foundation,Please install the hotfix for SQL Server 2008. File name will be SQLServer2008-KB970315-x64.exe . Download location will be provided. (Screen shots below).

Click close and then Run the SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard.(Screen shot below)

(Start->All Programs ->Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products ->SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard)

You should be able to open the Central Administration.

(Start->All Programs ->Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products ->SharePoint 2010 Central Administration)