Saturday, July 21, 2012

Install and Configure Team Foundation Server 2012 RC on Windows Server 2012 RC

In this blog post i will discuss about following things.

  1. Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 RC on Windows Server 2012 RC.
  2. Configuring TFS 2012 RC in Advanced mode with SQL Server 2012 RC.
  3. Configuring Integration with SharePoint Server 2013 by creating Team Projects Site Collection.
  4. Once installed - Explore the New Look of 
    • TFS 2012 RC and its integration with SharePoint Server 2013 preview
    • Team Foundation Server 2012 - Administration Console.
    • Team Foundation Server 2012 - Web Control Panel screen views.
Download Link for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 RC

Note: I already have Windows Server 2012 RC installed with Visual Studio 2012 RC, SQL Server 2012 RC and SharePoint Server 2013 preview.

Click tfs_server.exe file included as part of ISO

Pick the location where TFS 2012 needs to be installed and click Install Now



Once installation is completed (it is quick) and Team Foundation Server Configuration Center wizard will be launched.


Team Foundation Server Configuration Center wizard


Lets now look at the different Configuration options available in  Team Foundation Server Configuration Center wizard


Basic



Standard Single Server



Advanced



Application-Tier Only



Upgrade your previous version of TFS installations.



Configure Team Foundation Server Proxy



Configure Team Foundation Server Build Service



Configure Extensions for SharePoint Products. In my case i already have SharePoint 2013 preview installation and i am going to integrate existing SharePoint installation with TFS 2012.



I have picked Advanced option so that i have control over what i need to configure.



Provide the SQL Server Instance to be used by TFS. In my case i already have SQL Server 2012 installed and i have picked that SQL Server instance and requesting to create new Databases.

Pick Service Account and Authentication Method



Provide the port against which the TFS Application Tier Web Services to be running and the Virtual Directory name.



Configure Reporting Services integration with TFS



Provide Reporting Services settings for TFS

Provide Analysis Services Settings for TFS



Provide the Account that Reports will Run as



Configure SharePoint Products to use with TFS



Choose integration option for SharePoint with TFS. In my case i already installed SharePoint 2013 and hence i picked use the local SharePoint farm found on this machine.



Create new Team Project Collection.


Review the Configuration settings (all above steps we did before) and click Next



Review the Configuration settings (all above steps we did before) and click Next



Readiness checks validation process happens



Readiness Checks validation passed. Click Configure button.



Configuration process starts



Configuration Process completed successfully. Click Next button.


Configuration Process completed successfully and after click Finish button. Review the results page is shown and you can see Team Foundation Server link is provided. Lets click on the link.


Yes. There comes the Team Foundation Server 2012 Web Console view.





Lets check if Team Project Site Collection is created through SharePoint Central Administration --> Application Management --> Site Collection List. 


Lets check the databases list created for TFS 2012 as part of configuration process. In my case i have site collection database, TFSWareHouse database created as part of SQL Server Analytics services integration and TFS configuration database.


You can see we have now configured successfully Team Foundation Application Server and Integration with SharePoint Server 2013.


Team Foundation Server Administration Console view.



Team Foundation Server Administration Console - Application Tier view.



You can see Team Foundation Server 2012  integrated with SharePoint Server 2013 sample Team Projects Site Collection that i created.


Team Foundation Server 2012 - Control Panel web view.




Team Projects Site Collection - Control Panel - Projects list Overview screen



Team Foundation Server 2012 - Control Panel - Web Access - Permissions settings screen



Team Foundation Server 2012 - Control Panel - Security settings screen



Thanks to Microsoft again for providing the TFS 2012 preview setups to evaluate by Dev communities... :)




Thursday, July 19, 2012

Installing SharePoint Server 2013 (as Stand Alone) in Windows Server 2012 RC



In this blog post i will discuss about following things.

  1. Installing SharePoint Server 2013 (as Stand Alone) in Windows Server 2012 RC
  2. Once installed - Explore the New Look of 
    1. Central Administration screens
    2. Look at some of available OOTB site templates in SharePoint 2013
    3. Create a new Site Collection with Team room SharePoint 2013 site template
    4. View the new Look & Feel of sample team room site that comes OOTB with SharePoint 2013.

Installing SharePoint Server 2013 (as Stand Alone) in Windows Server 2012 RC 

  • Download Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Preview from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 and then you will be emailed the product key to enter during the SharePoint Server 2013 installation process.
    • SharePointServer_en-us.img file will be downloaded (image file is ~ 2.2 GB of size)
    • Right click IMG file and Mount the IMG file and then you can explore the files inside img file.
  • First I double clicked Setup.exe and I received an error popup that I have to install the pre requisites first. 






First step I double clicked Setup.exe and I received an error popup that I have to install the pre requisites first.



  • Installing PreRequisites for SharePoint 2013

As part of SharePoint Server 2013 setup image files, we have prerequisiteinstaller.exe that need to click in order to start the installation of the pre requisites.



During prerequisites installations steps i was asked to reboot for the settings to take effect.




After installation prerequisites installation auto started and some more installations happened. Finally the prerequisites installation completed.




Now click the Setup.exe file in your setup files list and the Sharepoint Server 2013 installation started.

Enter the SharePoint 2013 product key received in email for continuing with installation process.



Select Stand-Alone installation type and click Install Now button.



Now the installation continues for ~20-30 minutes. (depends on your hardware)







Finished installation and continue running the SharePoint Products Configuration wizard.



Configuration wizard setup process started







Following error occurred during the configuration wizard steps# 3

ErrorCode:SubStatus:
Service running under Network Service account in workgroup environment is not supported.



To resolve the above error i used the command below skip the distributed cache host configuration steps. (Used SharePoint 2013 power shell management console)

PS C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN> .\PSCONFIG.EXE -cmd Configdb create SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost





After the above power shell script execution was checking the DB changes and yes SharePoint Admin database and Configuration databases are created.





After the above steps continue again with launching the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.







Configuration continued from step-4 till the end and the configuration steps completed successfully. 






SharePoint DBs are created by configuration wizard in the SQL Server 2008 R2 Express edition. 



Launch Now Central Administration website to see if the SharePoint Products Configuration wizard is successful.

Here comes the new look - SharePoint 2013 Central Administration home screen :)



New in SharePoint 2013 Central Admin screen left Nav - Apps feature that has integration with "SharePoint and Office Store" (need to explore what is it?) thinking we can now extend the SharePoint sites in farm level with third party apps from store.




Central Admin - Application Management screen (not much changed) other than look & feel



Lets create a new Site Collection to look at the Sample SharePoint OOTB websites and pages.





New SharePoint wait progress dialog in Central Admin screens.



Site Collection created successfully and now lets the default site pages look and feel :)






People and Groups - Site Permissions page when we come first time to the site collection page.




Hear you go... now we see the default Team room look & feel that comes OOTB for SharePoint 2013 :)





Page Edit ribbons are hidden neat and actually looks like Office 2013 and Windows 8 design.


Edit Page SAVE operation... wait please



Site Contents View - New Look (kind of Metro style ? )


2013 experience Microsoft seems to have added some more new site templates

(Note: I saw a drop down that we can use to switch the experience 2010 or 2013 during site collection creation process to see the different site templates)




New Document Library Look & Feel





New Correlation ID GUID SharePoint error page in SharePoint 2013


When you click on Technical Details Link you get the New GUID sharepoint error details.





New Site Template in 2013 "Product Catalog"




New Site "Product Catalog" site template ?




Long way to click and explore...SharePoint 2013.

Thanks to Microsoft for sharing the Preview version free to Developer/IT community to peek and explore... :)