Install SharePoint Foundation 2010 – Sharepoint 2010

// February 3rd, 2010 // Sharepoint

This guide is suitable for a base installation of Windows 2008 Server 64bit with Service Pack 2 installed. I am running this machine on VMWare Version 6.5. I will be creating a basic farm without connecting to a SQL Server 2008 instance. I will use the SQLExpress version provided by the installer.

First off, if you havent found it, here is the Sharepoint Foundation Server download.

Sharepoint Foundation Server Preparation

Before actually completing the install, you will need to download and install the KB971831 and KB976394 fix.

Sharepoint Foundation Server Prerequisites

1.) Double-Click the Sharepoint.exe installer. Sharepoint Foundation server pops up with the splash screen shown below:

Sharepoint Install Screen

2.) Choose to install the software prerequisites

Sharepoint Server Install Screen

3.) Click next and accept the EULA. It requires internet connection.

Sharepoint Server Install Screen

4.) It should complete successfully as shown below

Sharepoint Server Install Screen

5.) At this point i would recommend restarting before attempting the sharepoint install shown below. Once restarted resume the install by clicking Sharepoint.exe and choosing “install Sharepoint Foundation”

Sharepoint Server Install Screen

6.) I choose to do the standalone option here since this is a development environment. If you are running in production, you should consider using or installing SQL Server 2008/2005 and doing the advanced Sharepoint installation.

Sharepoint Server Install Screen

7.) It should run through the install shown below

8.) It should complete successfully as shown below

9.) Click Next as shown below

10.) If all your pre-requisites are installed, it should complete successfully. Some of mine werent and this blog post by Bill Baer helped me.

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2 Responses to “Install SharePoint Foundation 2010 – Sharepoint 2010”

  1. Derek says:
    February 4, 2010 at 7:32 pm

    Thanks for the useful post. Would be interested to know how much memory you have allocated to VM.

  2. SharePoint2010 says:
    February 27, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Good post.
    Here is a post which tells installing SharePoint Foundation on Windows 7
    http://sharepoint-2010-world.blogspot.com/2011/02/install-sharepoint-foundation-2010-on.html

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