Pages

Monday, March 4, 2013

SharePoint 2013 Installation - Part 1

Part 1: Preparing the environment. 
Part 2 : Installing Windows Server 201
Part 3: Adding Active Directory Domain Services
Part 4: Promoting to Domain Name Server


SharePoint 2013 with all new cool features and social capabilities and enhancements is here and available for download. It is not the preview or release candidate but the final version. We are going to see in this series how to install and configure SharePoint 2013 Virtual Machine (VM). I am going to document all the steps that in creating this as a guide along with the setbacks and obstacles that i face in the process. I am going to create a single VM (simple configuration) which I will be primarily using for development and once I am done with this I will try to create a farm and document the steps as well.

Step 1: Creating Windows Server 2012 environment

This is the first step in the process and we will see how we can create a VM with Windows Server 2012.

I am using VMWare but there are other Virtual Machines available like Oracle’s VirtualBox, Windows Hyper V and there are few open source options as well.

Preparing VMWare:

Open VMWare Player and form this place you will be able to create new Virtual Machines






Click Create New Virtual Machine






In the Welcome Screen choose “I will install the operating system Later” option. and click next




In the select Guest Operating System screen choose “Microsoft Windows” and in the version drop down Choose “Windows 2008 R2 64 bit”







Click Next and now you will be prompted to enter Virtual Machine name and Location. You can change the location where you want to create the VM like a secondary HD. Give a name that is easily identifiable and hit next






Here you would need to specify Hard Disk  capacity. Choose at least 80 GB and you can check the minimum requirement here. You can split the HD for storing or leave it as single file.




Once you click next you will be in a summary page which shows the default configuration. Before clicking finish click on customize hardware





You will see hardware screen where you can configure your RAM and other hardware here. If you have 8 GB of RAM in your laptop or desktop where you are creating this machine it is better to give at least 5GB for this machine. This is only for Development scenario but for production stick with minimum requirement given here.






Choose 2 processor and in the “New CD/DVD” use ISO image and link it to the ISO image of windows server 2012. if you have not downloaded already you can get trial version from here. SharePoint 2013 can be installed on Server 2008 R2 as well but this article is all about installing it on server 2012.














If you have SQL Server and Sharepoint Downloaded you can add those ISO files now but it is better to add it after server 2012 is installed. SQL Server can be downloaded from here and SharePoint  2013 from here.

Once you click finish our VM with Server 2012 is ready.

In Part2 we will how we can install VM and setup Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)

Please share your comments for improvising this guide so this becomes useful for many. If you have any question post it and if I know that answer I will address it and we can learn together.

No comments:

Post a Comment