Install SharePoint 2010 Server Farm Setup without Active Directory on Windows Server 2008
How to install SharePoint 2010 Server Farm Setup without Active Directory on Windows Server 2008? In SharePoint 2010, there are two types of installations: Farm and Standalone. If you want to install SP 2010 on a single machine, it will not allow you to install farm set up out of the box as by default it requires Active Directory which means your machine needs to join a domain where Microsoft Active Directory has been already setup. To workaround this problem for Windows Server 2008 machine, you could do the following: 1. Install SQL Server 2008 R2 Development/Enterprise edition. 2. Install SharePoint 2010 Installation using Farm Setup. 3. Before proceeding to launch the SP2010 Configuration Wizard, open the SP2010 PowerShell and run this command: New-SPConfigurationDatabase After that, you will get the following window: Enter a Database Name (i.e SharePoint_Config_Db) Next: Enter a Database Server: (Your Database server name, if the database is h...