SharePoint Foundation 2010 installation fails in Windows Server 2008

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  •  16-10-2019
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Question

Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a Virtual Machine running Windows Server Standard or Windows Server 2008 R2 fails at the end of the installation saying that errors occurred and the log must be consulted etc.

The log wasn't helpful, but I did notice in the %TEMP% directory that there was a folder for SQL Express, so it turns out it was SQL Express part that failed during the setup of the standalone Sharepoint Foundation 2010 installation. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957453

The prerequisites installed fine.

Was it helpful?

Solution

The problem as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957453 was that the SQL Server Folders in my Program Files and Program Files (x86) were marked as "Allow this folder to be compressed".

So the installation fails because the folders had compression enabled. Clear the compress attribute on the Microsoft Sql Server folder, and the installation will complete without errors this time.

OTHER TIPS

You can't installed SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server Express for stand-alone installation. Microsoft doesn't support this topology.

Reference resource: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262747.aspx#topologies

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