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Archives for March 2011

Unattended Install of SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites (optionally) without an Internet Connection

March 14, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

Not all servers have Internet access, and usually you want to script the installation of a SharePoint server. For these reasons, you can drive the Prerequisite Installer (prerequisitesinstaller.exe) from the command line or via an arguments file, and tell it the location of each of the prerequisites from a place where you have already downloaded them.

Using it from the command line is pretty straightforward. You can pass in each of the following switches and then the location to the downloaded setup package:

  • /unattended
  • /SQLNCli:"D:\MyPath\sqlncli.msi"
  • /ChartControl:"D:\MyPath\MSChart.exe"
  • /W2K8SP2:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.0-KB948465-X64.exe"
  • /NETFX35SP1:"D:\MyPath\dotnetfx35setup.exe"
  • /PowerShell:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.0-KB968930-x64.msu"
  • /KB976394:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.0-KB976394-x64.msu"
  • /KB976462:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.1-KB976462-v2-x64.msu"
  • /IDFXR2:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu"
  • /Sync:"D:\MyPath\Synchronization.msi"
  • /FilterPack:"D:\MyPath\FilterPackx64.exe"
  • /ADOMD:"D:\MyPath\SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi"
  • /ReportingServices:"D:\MyPath\rsSharePoint.msi"
  • /Speech:"D:\MyPath\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi"
  • /SpeechLPK:"D:\MyPath\MSSpeech_SR_en-US_TELE.msi"

Full instructions are available on TechNet, but as always there are some gotchas. If you get the following error when you run the Prerequisite Installer:

Error running the Prerequisite Installer with an Arguments File

This is usually indicative of two problems. Check:

  1. That you’re running the Prerequisite Installer from the folder that contains it – e.g. the root of where you copied the CD to.
  2. Each line in your PrerequisiteInstaller.Arguments.txt file has a space at the end. (Yes, flakey, I know!)

Filed Under: SharePoint Tagged With: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010 Training, SharePoint Administration

SharePoint Visio Stencils for IT Pros and Administrators

March 3, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

I recently had a question from one of my students:

Every time I create a Visio diagram for a SharePoint farm, I start with an existing diagram and use the shapes from that. Are there any Visio stencils for SharePoint?

Yes! There are! You can download a set of Visio stencils for architectural drawings of SharePoint farms from Microsoft here: http://bit.ly/spstencil.

Example

The stencils let you produce diagrams like this one from TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx

Example SharePoint Architecture Diagram with Visio Stencils

Installation

You need to unzip this to your My Shapes folder under your Documents folder, e.g.:

"%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Shapes"

Filed Under: SharePoint Tagged With: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Administration, SharePoint Architecture

Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
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