Installing Sitecore 10 using SIA(Sitecore Install Assistant)

Sitecore 10 is out! I tried installing it using SIA(Sitecore Install Assistant) along with SXA and it installed smoothly without any errors!

Prerequisites: 

No need to install any prerequisites(includes Solr, SIF) manually, SIA will take care of it.

Preparation:

• Download installation package (Graphical setup package XP Single) from here.

Installation:

• Extract the file zip file downloaded and click on Setup.exe

• Install the prerequisites to make sure the required SIF and Windows Server prerequisites are up to date.

• Install Solr 8.4.0 by filling Port, Windows service path prefix and Install path and Install.

Note: Make sure the port number is different from earlier versions of Solr installed. 

• Fill out site prefix, admin password (going with b, so easy to remember) and Confirm password (new to Sitecore 10), and license file path.

• Fill out SQL server instance name, admin username and password.

• Double-check the Solr URL (browse to make sure it’s running successfully), System root and Windows service name

• Select optional module SXA if you need. I’m going for it, time to explore SXA! Would be nice if Horizon is listed here.

• Review the summary to make sure the settings are correct.

• SIA validates to make sure the files look good.

• Install. This takes around 10 minutes (you can get a coffee!). If it errors out, check out the log.

Yayy!! It’s installed. Is it easy to install with SIA? It’s indeed a great tool!  

Check out the release notes for what’s new in Sitecore 10 here

Error:

While installing got this error –

Failed to start service ‘Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine – sc10.xp.dev.localxconnect.dev.local- MarketingAutomationService (sc10.xp.dev.localxconnect.dev.local- MarketingAutomationService)’.

Resolution:

This could be due to a license expiry issue. In my case, I had a valid license file. Resolved the issue by moving the non-self signed certificates to trusted certificates. 

I ran this command as an admin and got a couple of certificates that were non-self signed.

Get-Childitem cert:\LocalMachine\root -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Issuer -ne $_Subject }

Now I moved it to Trusted Root by running the following command.

Get-Childitem cert:\LocalMachine\root -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Issuer -ne $_Subject } | Move-Item -Destination Cert:\LocalMachine\CA

After moving, I tried the SIA again and it worked perfectly.

Happy Sitecoring!