Installation of SharePoint 2013 (Part-01)

PART-01 Covers prerequisite installation and installing the SharePoint binaries

Here we will go through the very basic steps or reminders before you can setup a single server/Multiple or development environment

1. First make you you have created all the service and application accounts in the Active Directory. You may refer to the below article for a proper planning [ CLICK HERE ].
2.Also make sure you setup all the Service Principle Names (SPN's) in the activer directory to avoid any unknown authentication or other issues.
3. Make sure you login to all the SharePoint servers as local admin ( eg. DomainName\SP_Installer).
4. Now right the prerequisite.exe installer in the SharePoint 2013 CD > right click > Choose run as administrator and proceed with the below steps.

Installing the prerequisites

5. Once the prerequisite installation is complete do a reboot of the server.

Installing the SharePoint binaries

1. Open the Setup.exe in the SharePoint 2013 CD > right click > Choose run as administrator and proceed with the below steps.

You may leave the installation directory to the default or change it as per your company rules. To me I just leave it to the default and change the Logs directory later to a non-system drive.

From the below screen "UNCHECK" the option "Run the SharePoint Product Configuration Wizard now" and close the window.

If you have multiple servers in your farm you may perform the steps in Part-01 on all servers in the farm.

Let's proceed to PART-02 now.

Installation of SharePoint 2013 (Part-02)

PART-02 Covers SharePoint actual installation and configuration

In Part-01 we avoided running the initial configuration wizard just to avoid any GUID's in the SharePoint database names. We will ow go through a bit of PowerShell to finish the installation.

1. Login to the first server where you want to host the Central Administration.

2. Launch the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell > right click run as administrator and run the below powershell command. ( change parameters according to your server name and db name preferences )

*** PS Command ***

New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName SP_SharePoint_Config -DatabaseServer SHKAppSvr -AdministrationContentDatabaseName SP_SharePoint_Admin_Content

Value	Details/Particulars
SP_SharePoint_Config	This is the SharePoint Configuration database name
SP_SharePoint_Admin_Content	This is the SharePoint Admin Content  database name
SHKAppSvr	This is the Database server name.
Note: Please avoid using spaces to avoid any unforeseen complexities.

3. Once you press enter after typing the PowerShell command you will be prompted with the credentials. This will be the Farm account.

4.After the prompt disappears you will asked for a PassPhrase. Enter the PassPhrase and click next and wait for the cursor to come to the next line.

5. Once step-4 is complete go to your Server 2012 Apps > select SharePoint 2013 Products configuration wizard >  right and choose run as administration and follow the subsequent steps.

Choose appropriate port as per your convenience and request your Network team to open the port if needed.

Click Next  and wait for the configuration wizard completion wizard.

Woo hoo. Here is the first look at your SharePoint 2013 Central Admin.

Are you excited ? Ok that's cool...We are long way to go in terms of Service Applications and add servers if  it is a multi server farm.

Wait for the PART-03 to cover on this.