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Welcome to the 4th and final part of this guide. The first thing you will notice after starting SharePoint Server 2010 setup is that you have 2 steps of the installation. First you start with the installation of SharePoint Server 2010 prerequisites and then move on to installing the product server components. Click on Install software prerequisites.

The prerequisites installation wizard will be launched and a list of the components to be installed are displayed. Click Next.

Read the license terms and if you’re OK with it place a check next to I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next.

After the wizard finishes installing all the prerequisites it will display a status summary about each component. Click Finish.

Now we are ready to start with the installation of the product server components. Click Install Office SharePoint Server.

Read the license terms and if you’re OK with it place a check next to I accept the terms of the agreement and click Continue.

Click on Advanced.

Select Complete from the Server Types and click Install Now.

Installation wizard will start installing SharePoint Server 2010 components.

Keep the box checked to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. Click Close.

The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard will be launched. Click Next.

The wizard will prompt you about restarting IIS and SharePoint Services. Click Yes.

Select Create a new server farm. Click Next.

Enter the database server name. If you are following this guide from the beginning then the virtual machine name will be SP2010. Since we are building a sandbox let’s just use the Administrator account.

This is the second thing that you will find different about the SharePoint setup. Now we need to specify a passphrase or password. This password will be used for joining new servers to our farm. This will help securing our SharePoint farm in a way that not any administrator can simply add a new server to the farm.

Specify the Central Administration port. For fun I use 4444 Click Next.

A summary will be displayed before the wizard configures our farm. Click Next.

The wizard will start configuring our Farm. This might take some time.

The wizard will display a summary when it finishes the configuration. Click Finish.

Upon closing the wizard will launch Central Administration. You’ll be asked for the Administrator login. Enter the login information and click OK.

Microsoft spent allot of time in in building the new SharePoint interface and wizards. Let’s skip the wizard for now. Select I will configure everything myself. Click Next.

Under System Settings click on Manage services on server. We need to start the SharePoint services.

All the services will run once you click on start except the services marked in red below.

Click the start link next to Windows SharePoint Services Search.

The Windows SharePoint Services Search Configuration page will be displayed. Use the Administrator user for both the Service Account and Content Access Account.

Keep the other settings using the default values. Click Start.

Click on the start link next to Document conversions Launcher Service.

The Launcher Service Settings page will be displayed. Select the current server SP2010 as the load balancer. Click OK.

After we are done with starting SharePoint Services, we need to move on creating our web application and site collection. Under Application Management click on Manage web applications.

Click on the Web Applications tab.

Click on the New to create a new web application. It is really different than the MOSS 2007 central admin experience. Since this is a technology preview you will notice that most of the ribbon images are not just place holders.

Enter the web application name. This will be used inside IIS. I used ISHARETHEPOINT – 80 for the name and isharethepoint.local as the web application host header.

You will notice that you can now store configurable identities to be used with the Application Pools. This is really one cool feature, it becomes really handy that not every time you need to call up your administrator for the password plus you don’t have to enter the user login information every time you create a new web application.

Add ISHARETHEPOINT to the database name so it becomes WSS_Content_ISHARETHEPOINT.

Keep the default values for the other settings. Click OK.

Click on Create Site Collection.

Enter a title for the site collection. I used Bander’s SharePoint 2010 Sandbox. Select the Blank Site template.

Use the Administrator account for the Primary Site Collection Administrator. Leave all other settings using the default values. Click OK.

When SharePoint finishes creating the site collection it will display the collection link. Click on the link. In my case http://isharethepoint.local .

When load the site collection you will be asked to enter the account credentials. Use the Administrator account credentials and click OK.

We are done with the installation guide I took the liberty of adding a content editor webpart with a congrats message for you.

This beginner guide can be used only for creating sandbox virtual machines and never to be used in production. I’ll be posting an installation guide using best practices when SharePoint Server 2010 goes RTM. If you had any issues with the installation and configuration please don’t hesitate to contact me