Share point 2010 enterprise single server farm installation
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SharePoint 2010 Enterprise
Single Server farm Installation
Before starting actual steps, we would like to understand few basic concepts. So
What is farm? Farm is group of Co-related, interdependent still isolated Applications.
Farm can be deployed as
1. Multi-Server Farm: in which different servers have different roles, like someone has
web Server Role, Application Server Role and Database server Role.
2. Single server farm: In this all above Roles are assigned to Single Server. All of Above
roles Played by Single Server. In single server farm we can add more servers later
3. Stand-Alone farm cannot add another Server in future.
In this tutorial today we will see how to setup single server farm.
Minimum Hardware Requirements For Single server farm:-
64 bit processor.
8 GB for production use in a single server or multiple server farm .For test
Installation we can use 4 GB RAM.
Software Requirements For Single server farm:-
Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 (64 bit).
The 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.We can also use SQL Server
2008.
Service packs 2 update. Now we can use Service pack 1 for SQL Server 2008
Or Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2005 64 bit with latest service pack and
cumulative updates
Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Installer.
For more details on pre-requisites and proper planning refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc262485.aspx
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Security Requirements For Single server farm:-
Active directory domain controller (ADDC) must install on server to create and
Assign roles to user.
Create A three Account in Active Directory users and Computers as given
below:-
Installation User:- srv-sp-setup
SQL User :- srv-sp-sql
Farm Admin :- srv-sp-farm
Give the Domain Admins and Local Administrator rights to these three
accounts.
To install SQL server 2008, login with srv-sp-sql Account.
Assign the “Dbcreator”, public and “Securityadmin” roles to “srv-sp-setup”
and “srv-sp -sql “in Sql server.
To install Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Login with Srv-sp-setup Account.
SharePoint 2010 server Configuration wizard should run with srv-sp-farm
account.
There are Few Simple Steps Afterword we are able to install single server farm easily. Follow
the following steps:-
1. Double click on SharepointServer.exe .it extract all files
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2. Firstly install all the prerequisites as shown below, for that you require Internet
Connection on your server. If you don’t have internet connection on same server .then
Download SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites to other machine where Internet connection is
available and put that prerequisite on shared location and Access it. Following are
prerequisites which should be downloaded offline if direct internet connection is not
available.
Application server role. Web server (IIS) Role.
Microsoft SQL server 2008 Native Client.
Hotfix for Microsoft Windows(KB976462)
Windows identity foundation(KB974405)
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0(x64)
Microsoft chart control for Microsoft .Net framework 3.5
Microsoft filter pack 2.0
Microsoft SQL server 2008 Analysis services ADOMD.NET
Microsoft server speech platform runtime (x64).
Microsoft server speech recognition language- TELE(en-US)
SQL 2008 R2 Reporting Services SharePoint 2010 Add- ins.
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11. After click on continue button next screen comes here you can select Standalone or
Server Farm. Now we are looking for Single server farm Installation .So we are Clicking
on Server farm Option.
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12. After clicking on server farm. Next screen provide option to choose server type,
complete or Stand-alone .Now we are clicking on complete and then click on Install
Now.
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15. After click on the close button SharePoint Configuration Wizard runs automatically .Click
on next Button.
16. After clicking on next button one pop Window comes click on yes.
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17. After Clicking on yes, Next screen provides the option to choose an existing server farm
or create a new server farm. Because we are installing single server farm so there is no
existing farm. Let’s choose create a new server farm and click next.
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18. Then in the next screen we can set our database with SharePoint 2010 server, here we
can give the Database name and domain user name and password. You can change your
database name to more secure your database because it is default database name any
one can access your database .Now we can go for default database name because it is
our demo configuration. Username is our domain Administrator it does not require
any specific permission. Through this account we can manage the central
Administrator of SharePoint farm. Take a screenshot of this screen for future use.
After putting all information click next.
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19. After clicking next. Next screen for security setting, here we give passphrase, it used
when we add another server in the farm. It must be strong means combination of
alphabet, numbers and special character and minimum 8 characters required. Then click
next.
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20. After clicking next .another screen appears here we can set the port number for
SharePoint Central Administration or we can choose default port number. It looks like a
http://databaseserver name: port number/ .Once you choose the port number we
cannot further change it. Here we can go for default port number .and we can also set
the Authentication provider NTLM or kerberos .generally we are choosing NTLM. Then
click on next.
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25. In the next screen you can choose an account from which you manage all the services.
By default there are 14 services available .you can un-check the services which you don’t
run from this account. Then click next. Generally Managed Metadata Service, Search
service application, User profile service applications are minimum recommended which
should be selected.
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26. In the next screen we can choose any template to create a top level site .now we can
choose team site for it. Then click ok.