Its being a while since i was online. :). Today i am going to explain step by step about how to install SharePoint 2010 server. This article describes the installation of SharePoint Server 2010 and is a part of a series describing the complete installation of SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Environment
- Windows 2008 R2 server running Active Directory Domain Services
- Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL 2008 R2
- Windows 2008 R2 server running SharePoint 2010 RTM
- Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010 RTM
- Windows 7 client running Office 2010 RTM
Before installing SharePoint we need to create some accounts in the active directory
Account Name | Description |
DOMAIN\sp_services | Account that is used to run the sharepoint services. |
DOMAIN\sp_admin | Account used to install sharepoint server. |
DOMAIN\sp_farm | Account used to configure sharepoint server. |
DOMAIN\sp_crawl | Account used by search services. |
DOMAIN\sp_userprofile | Account used for user profile services. This user also should have directory replication rights in active directory. |
DOMAIN\sp_sql | Account used to install sql server. |