Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7

I know there’s a lot of posts describing how to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 (WSS4) on Windows 7 (see Microsoft’s installation procedure for Vista and Windows Server 2008 installations), but I just had to write my own short edition of the installation procedure available at MSDN.

Please note that Microsoft does not support this configuration for production environments. Windows 7 installations should only be used for development, testing and demo purposes!

Prerequisites

The following components and additions has to be installed on the computer running Windows 7 64-bit edition:

• WCF hotfix (KB971831) for Windows 7
• ADO.NET Data Service Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft Filterpack 2.0 (a part of the SharePoint 2010 Foundation distribution)
• Microsoft Sync Framework
• SQL Server Native Client
• Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405)
• Windows 7 Internet Information Server with components shown in a section bellow.

Installation procedure

Use the following procedure to install SharePoint Foundation:

1. Make sure all prerequisites are met and no critical error is present in the event logs.
2. Download SharePoint Foundation from Microsoft’s web site.
3. Extract the web package to a temporary location using the /extract command line option.
4. Edit the .\files\Setup\config.xml file according to the section below.
5. Run the SharePoint Foundation setup, but do not run the configuration wizard.
6. If you use a local SQL Server 2008, install KB970315.
7. Run the SharePoint products and technologies configuration wizard.
8. Install appropriate language packs.
9. Configure SharePoint with the SharePoint Central Administration web application.

Editing the config.xml file

As described in step 4 in the installation procedure above, the config.xml file has to be edited to allow installation on Windows 7. Add the following line in the configuration section:
<Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>

The entire config.xml file should look similar to this:

<Configuration>
  <Package Id="sts">
    <Setting Id="SETUPTYPE" Value="CLEAN_INSTALL" />
  </Package>
  <DATADIR Value="%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Data" />
  <Logging Type="verbose" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 Setup *.log" />
  <PIDKEY Value="RBWQH-7PFXQ-D6RX2-HVK8Y-HP7F7" />
  <Setting Id="UsingUIInstallMode" Value="1" />
  <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
  <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>
</Configuration>

IIS Features and Components

The follow screen shots shows required IIS components as described in the prerequisites section:

N’Joy!