Installing SharePoint 2010 RTM

Hi everyone,

It's been ages since the last time I wrote my last blog article. I feel great now knowing that I have got time to start writing again.

So, Sharepoint 2010 RTM is finally out. The one in my VM is still the BETA version. So I decided to ditch my VM and rebuilt one with the RTM version.

I will also be using SQL Server 2008 instead of SQL Server 2005.

Installing Sharepoint 2010 is really just a matter of double-clicking on SETUP.EXE and follow the instructions. However, these SQL patches need to first be installed before you can proceed:
- SQL 2008 SP1 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19&displaylang=en
- Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 SP1 - KB970315 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315

Once we've installed these patches, Sharepoint installation can then proceed.

One thing that I noticed as well now is, on BETA when I tried to install SP using SP_Admin, somehow this user is not added as SP Farm Administrator. This is now fixed in the RTM version so it's all good and ready to go.


Cheers,
Tommy