SharePoint 2010 Installation Step-by-Step

 Here are the list of steps/tasks I had performed to install SharePoint 2010 

Service Accounts

SharePoint 2010  accounts

Service Account	Role
Admin	SharePoint 2010 Installation account
FarmAdmin	SharePoint 2010 Farm admin account
Services	SharePoint 2010 Service account
Mysite	SharePoint 2010 My Site account
Userprofile	SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service account

Permissions

Permissions before Installation

Service Accounts	Local admin on Web Front	Local admin on Application Server	SQL Permissions
Admin	Yes	Yes	DB Creator, Security Admin
FarmAdmin	No	No	None
Services	No	No	None
Mysite	No	No	None
Userprofile	No	No	None

Login to the box with Admin account

Check for windows update

Create Downloads folder on the application drive (D)

Copy the SharePoint 2010 installation software

Click on Splash 

Click on Install software prerequisites

Click Next

Click Next

Pre requitse Installation is complete. Click Finish

on the splash screen click on Install SharePoint Server

Enter valid product key

Click Continue

Check I accept the terms of the License Agreements

Click Continue

Choose Server Farm eventhough you have single box so that this can be extended latter

Choose Complete

If you want to change the file location you can specify here. Only the log files will be created at this location as by default SharePoint installs on system drive

Click on Install Now

Run the SharePoint Configuratin Wizard

Click Next

 

Click Yes



Choose create new server farm, click next



Specify Database server, Database Name. Specfiy the Farm admin account and password here

Click Next



Specify the password for Farm set up and security. This is really cool feature in SharePoint 2010

Click Next


If you want any specific port number for your central admin site you need to specify here.

Click Next



Review your settings and click next





Created successfull, click Finish


If you like to participate select yes otherwise no

To configure each service manually, choose "No"

Change the SharePoint root web service to run under Farm admin account

Hope this helps someone for installation of SharePoint 2010

Good Luck

 

SharePoint 2010 Migration – Using Database attach method

PRE REQUITES

1) Make sure you have enough free disk space for Data/ Back up and Log files on the destination SQL server.
2) Granted DB Owner rights to SharePoint 2010 Install Account on all the Existing/Migrated Content database

COPY/RESTORE CONTENT DATABASE

Copy 2007 Content Database back up copy to the new SQL server.
Restore the Databases in the new SharePoint 2010 SQL environment.
VERIFYING THE CONTENT DATABASENext step is to verify the Content Database using Test-SPContentDatabase Windows PowerShell cmdlet
This cmdlet will test and verify that any custom components that are required for this content database has been installed and configured in the SharePoint 2010 environment.

Test-SPContentDatabase –Name <database name> -WebApplication <URL>

Launch the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and type the above command, ensuring you have entered your
Information

1) Make sure you have enough free disk space for Data/ Back up and Log files on the destination SQL server.

Test-SPContentDatabase –Name WSS_Content_ABC -WebApplication http:/abcpoint


Review and Resolve the issues if any.

MOUNT CONTENT DATABASE
Next step is to mount the Content Database using Mount-SPContentDatabase Windows PowerShell cmdlet
This cmdlet will mount/Attach content database to the web application.

Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name "WSS_CONTENT_XYZ" -DatabaseServer "SQLSERVER" -WebApplication http://abc/

Review and Resolve the issues if any.