One of the major improvement of SharePoint 2010 product is its ability to install and run on the client operating system like Windows 7. This article would elaborate the steps to install SP  Foundation 2010 on Windows 7 (X64). The configuration of my laptop is Intel I5 Processor, 4GB RAM and set up with Windows 7 Enterprise Edition (X64) & Visual studio 2010 Service Pack1.

 

Step1 –

Install WCF hotfix for Windows 7 located in  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=166231

Step2

Install ADO.NET Data Services updates for .NET 3.5 SP1 located in http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=166231

Step3

The next step is to install the other additional pre-requisites. The pre-requisite installer cannot be leveraged while installing SP Foundation 2010, unlike the installation of SP Server 2010. So the following pre-requisites have to be manually installed.

 

a) Microsoft Sync Framework

b) SQL Server Native Client

c) Windows Identity Foundation

 

Step 4

Enable the set of required Windows Features by running the following scripts

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;^
IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;^
IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;^
IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;^
IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;^
IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;^
IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;^
IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;^
IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;^
WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;^
WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

 

Step 5

The next task is to extract the SharePoint Foundation installer (SharePointFoundation.exe), apply required attributes for the configuration file.

Copy the SharePointFoundation.exe in to the folder where you want to install.
c:YourFolder

Extract the installer by typing the following in the command prompt
c:YourFolderSharePoint /extract:c:YourFolder

 

Open the Config.xml located in c:YourFolderfilesSetupconfig.xml

Add the following snippet inside <configuration> tag
<Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>

Please make sure the the installer (SharePointFoundation.exe) is extracted only using the Extract option in Command prompt. If it is extracted using Winzip, it will given an error like “The language of this installation package is not supported”

Run SharePointFoundation.exe and install it as ‘StandAlone’

 

 

 

Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. If you are doing a standalone setup of SP Foundation2010, there is no need to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 KB 970315 x64  hotfix.

Now it’s all set the SP Foundation 2010 setup is complete.