I am in the process to
installing MS CRM 2011 on Windows server 2012. And I found it was slightly
different what it was on Windows server 2008.
First of all you need to
ready AD environment as we did in windows server 2008.
Secondly installing SQL
Server 2008/2012 as desired. I am using
SQL Server 2008 Datacenter x64 R2.
Before
you start you must enable following Roles and Features on Windows server 2012.
File
and Storage Services.
Web
Server (IIS).
.Net
Framework 3.5 and 4.5 Features.
Now
we are all set to start our install process. Even I clicked on Setup.exe for
CRM 2011 but after some time it was like a background activity. And nothing was
happening. And you will wait to happen anything but it remains same for ideal
time. You can crosscheck at background what happening there. See below image.
After
that I went to many forums but there was no solution. Then I found the solution
from my CRM Lab practicing team. But still it had some issue. After doing
slight change it worked. Following is the process.
First
of all create a temp folder. Like C:\crm_temp_install
Secondly
download the latest MS CRM 2011 setup from Microsoft
Download Site. When I click on this on Windows Server 2012 my browser IE 10
was not properly working when I click to download. It says Thank message for
download. Instead start download. I workaround this compatibility mode of
browser to 9/8 or you can download at you download at your client machine and
then copy to server.
Copy
this installation package to created temporary folder on server(2012) C:\crm_temp_install.
To
complete CRM installation on Windows Server 2012 SHS(Self-Healing Setup) update
is required and can be downloaded at Microsoft
Update Catalog. Once you open this link it will ask you to enable Microsoft
Add on enable them. Then 3 files as following picture will come.
Select
“Setup update for Microsoft Dynamic CRM Server 2011” and click add and go to
view basked and download.
Once
download is completed. This SHS will contain all the languages so you need to select the one that
will be base language of you CRM Installation. I took 1033 for English.
After
extracting cab file inside the folder you will fine .msp package copy this to
your temp folder (C:\crm_temp_install).
The
final step is create setup config file I named it config.xml.
<CRMSetup>
<Server>
<Patch
update="true"> C:\crm_temp_install\Server_KB2434455_amd64_1033.msp</Patch>
</Server>
</CRMSetup>
Now you have everything to
install.
Go to command prompt change
the directory to C:\crm_temp_install. Extract the file for .exe (CRM setup file) Using
/extract in last. It will ask a folder create a folder e.g. “CRM”. Once
extraction completes it will show complete message.
Change
the directory to “CRM” folder and type following command.
SetupServer.exe
/config C:\crm_temp_install\config.xml.
And press enter.
The
checking for update step should show “Setup has finished downloading the update”.
This message confirms that the setup has picked the SHS correctly from the
config file.
Follow
the rest steps of installation. And you are ready to use MS CRM 2011 on Windows server 2012.
