SharePoint: WSS Installation On A DC - PSConfig Goodness at Alpesh Nakar's Blog

March 11, 2007 No comments

SharePoint: WSS Installation On A DC – PSConfig Goodness

Using Configuration Wizard without the wizard! That’s right.

This has nothing to do with our installation that we have done so far. However, I think you should know about this very powerful exe file that ships with this version of Windows SharePoint Services v3.

psconfig

Yeah.This is the exe behind your configuration wizard. To let you on a secret, use this instead of the GUI. It is much quicker. The wait for ten gruelling steps using GUI to finish is no fun.

Just use the following command and see how quickly the configuration is completed.

psconfig -cmd setup

You will find this exe in %systemdrive%Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12BIN

Grab PSConfig.CHM (Help file for PSConfig) from %systemdrive%Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12Help1033

Why?

For starters, you could pre-configure database for your sharepoint installation.

Secondly, if you had a botched up installation and can’t run the setup again, psconfig will help you

Contents of the PSConfig.CHM

Welcome to the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

How to: configure proxy server settings

How to: enable Internet Information Services

How to: repair SharePoint Products and Technologies

How to: verify ASP.NET version

How to: verify Windows Workflow Foundation version

Connect to a server farm

Specify configuration database settings

Configure the SharePoint Central Administration Web application

Confirm settings

Advanced settings

Configuring SharePoint Products and Technologies

Configuration complete

Remove the SharePoint Central Administration Web site

Modify server farm settings

Replace default SharePoint site

Configuration failure during removal

Command-line reference for the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration wizard Have fun and share your experience with PSConfig

That about sums up my series on WSS Installation on a Domain Controller. What did you learn? I sure did learn a lot!

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SharePoint: Config XML and PSConfig | Alpesh Nakars' Blogosphere October 5, 2007 12:44 pm

[...] If you change the display option in config.xml as follows, then the setup file will install MOSS but will not run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard a.k.a psconfig. [...]
Tweedledum January 9, 2009 9:15 pm

Hey interesting article, when i use the products and technologies wizard the advanced settings button is greyed out, could this help me? I just want to enable account creation mode but i can’t get the damn thing to work because of afore mentioned problem.
Meetu Choudhary August 17, 2010 10:30 pm

I am not able to run this exe i am getting the error Failed to start the database service MSSQL$Sharepoint. although i have installed the hotfix. i downloaded the hotfix from here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=970315&kbln=en-us

but when i am trying to install the hotfix if is empty i mean when it asks to select the features it has no feature to install.

plz help me its urgent