Tagged: Solr

Algolia Search Provider for Sitecore 10.2.1

The Algolia Search Provider for Sitecore is a powerful integration combining robust content management capabilities with Algolia’s lightning-fast, full-text search engine.

This provider enables Sitecore-driven websites and applications to deliver instant, relevant, and highly customizable search experiences to end-users, ensuring faster content discovery and improved user engagement.

While exploring, I found that Dmitry Harnitski and Peter Procházka have implemented the Algolia Search Provider for Sitecore 9.1 and previous versions. Thank you so much!

https://github.com/dharnitski/Sitecore.Algolia

https://github.com/chorpo/Sitecore.Algolia/tree/sitecore91

Upgrading to Sitecore 10.2.1

The following are the steps taken for upgrading Sitecore 10.2.1 –

I forked from Peter Procházka’s Sitecore 9.1 branch

https://github.com/chorpo/Sitecore.Algolia/tree/sitecore91

Upgraded the Sitecore NuGet packages to 10.2.1.

Algolia.Search NuGet package upgraded 6.12.1

Started resolving build issues – many interfaces changed, and tons of changes on the following commit. https://github.com/chorpo/Sitecore.Algolia/commit/20baf2a5578cac474f16d15938f57068875b8915

Finally, able to build the solution successfully.

After the build was successful, I shifted the module to the existing solution.
I didn’t get a chance to upgrade the unit test project. If you have upgraded, please let me know.

The module is checked into the following repository.

https://github.com/Madhumidha/Sitecore.Algolia/tree/Sitecore1021

The repo has all the instructions on how to set up and configuration details.

Hope this helps.

Happy Sitecoring!

June 19, 2025

Sitecore

Sitecore Forms : Custom Submit Action to Create and Publish Content Item (Part 2)

In Part 1, we saw

Create Custom Submit Action in Sitecore
Create a code-behind class that inherits SubmitActionBase
Create a secure API that can create and publish an item

https://madhuanbalagan.com/sitecore-forms-custom-submit-action-to-create-and-publish-item-from-form-data-part-1

Now, let’s focus on

Create a separate Authorization in the Identity Server for Forms
Create a Controller to bridge between Custom Submit Action and API call
Set the Custom Submit Action fields

1. Create a separate Authorization in the Identity Server for Forms

Add the FormsServerClient node and its value to the Identity Server’s Sitecore.IdentityServer.DevEx.xml file. After making the change, make sure to IIS Reset for the change to be in effect.

Note: Don’t forget to add transforms for ClientSecret!

Ideally, you can call it in Postman to verify that it’s generating a token using Form’s ClientID and ClientSecret values mentioned in the Sitecore.IdentityServer.DevEx.xml file.

Now that the config is all set to have its own ClientID and ClientSecret, let’s set up the Authorize method with BearerToken specifically for Form’s Identity Credentials.

The SitecoreRestServices handles authenticated HTTP requests to Sitecore’s REST APIs, managing access tokens and retrying requests if authentication fails. It uses dependency injection to configure the HTTP client and obtain the necessary settings.

2. Create a Controller to bridge between Custom Submit Action and API call

Let’s bridge the Custom Submit Action and API call – The CustomController class extends SitecoreController and uses dependency injection to obtain an instance of ICreateAutoPublishService.

It defines a CreateAndPublish method – HTTP POST endpoint that processes CreateAndAutoPublishModel, calls the service to create and publish content, and returns a JSON response indicating success or failure.

The method includes error handling to return appropriate HTTP status codes and messages for different exceptions.

3. Set the Custom Submit Action fields

The final step – Let’s set the Model Type and Error Message based on the class we created.

Publish the form and its related items. It should be good to go!

Hope this helps.

Happy Sitecoring!

April 20, 2025

Sitecore

Sitecore Forms : Custom Submit Action to Create and Publish Content Item(Part 1)

Problem

I encountered a situation that the website was internally facing, which needed a form that would not save the data in the Experience Forms database. Also the data needs to be saved as an Item in the master database so it could be published and consumed in a listing page.

At first, I considered creating a Custom Submit Action to create and publish an item. However, I later realized that the CD server lacked access to the CM server, preventing it from directly generating an item in the master database. So, I came up with the idea of creating a custom API service and combining it with a custom submit action.

Solution

To implement this followed this process

Create Custom Submit Action in Sitecore
Create a code-behind class that inherits SubmitActionBase
Create a secure API that can create and publish an item
Create an API authorization user in the identity server
Create a Controller to proxy between Custom Submit Action and API calls
Set the Custom Submit Action fields

1. Custom Submit Action in Sitecore

Create the custom submit action in the following path /sitecore/system/Settings/Forms/Submit Actions.

2. Create a code-behind class that inherits SubmitActionBase

Create a class that inherits the SubmitActionBase class and overrides the Execute method which calls the API asynchronously to create and publish an item.

The CreateAndAutoPublish class extends SubmitActionBase<string> and is designed to handle form submissions in Sitecore, creating and auto-publishing content items.

It uses dependency injection to obtain instances of IHttpClientFactory, BaseSettings, and ISitecoreRestServices, which are lazily initialized. The ExecuteAction method validates the form submission context and parameters, then calls the Execute method to prepare a model from form fields, serialize it to JSON, and send it to a Sitecore API endpoint using an HTTP POST request.

The class includes helper methods to extract values from form fields and handles errors by logging them and adding them to the form submission context’s error collection.

3. Create an API call that creates and publishes the item

The API call does the following things –

Creates an item under a specified folder
Move and Sync the item into a bucket
Publish the item
Clear the Sitecore cache
Ensure the published item is indexed or force index the item
Clear the Vercel Cache for frontend

In Part 2, we will see how to

Create an API authorization user in the identity server
Create a Controller to proxy between Custom Submit Action and API calls
Set the Custom Submit Action fields

Hope this helps.

Happy Sitecoring!

March 1, 2025

Sitecore

2024 – Contributions

The 2024 year has been great with presenting at Sitecore Symposium, and various Sitecore User Groups worldwide.

Symposium Presentation:

Oct 18, 2024 – Building and maximizing the potential of your Sitecore community

Blog Posts :

Dec 14, 2023 – Integrating Sitecore website with Coveo rapidly

Jan 02, 2024 – My 2023 Reflections

Jan 31, 2024 – Sitecore Upgrade: The Update App Tool

March 16, 2024 – Sitecore Upgrade: Database scripts

April 24, 2024 – Coveo for Sitecore: Index Error Troubleshooting and Resolution

May 30, 2024 – Sitecore Serialization: Rapid CLI Setup and Configuration

Aug 28, 2024 – Sitecore: Apache Tika Integration for Secure Media File Indexing

Oct 21, 2024 – Sitecore Sidekick Installation and Setup

Presentations : 

Jan 31, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide – SUG Pittsburg

Mar 21, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide – SUG Columbus

Mar 27, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide – SUG Atlantic Canada

May 05, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide – SUG Jordon

May 18, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide – SUG Coimbatore

June 4, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide – SUG Los Angeles

Oct 30, 2024 – Join Us for an Exclusive Panel Discussion on Sitecore Symposium 2024: Insights and Innovations – SUG Columbus

Contributions:

Dec 22, 2023 – Feedback/Review for Sitecore Content Hub Administrator Certification Exam –

Dec 15, 2023 – Feedback for Sitecore MVP Program –

Dec 22, 2023 – MVP Application Review

Mar 01, 2024 – Sitecore CDP & Personalize Certification Exam Beta review

Mar 01, 2024 – Hackathon participation

Mar 21, 2024 – Website Creation and Management Survey

Mar 22, 2024 – Organize the content on our website feedback survey

April 19, 2024 – Reviewed Sitecore Dev 10 Beta Exam

Oct 22, 2024 – MVP Summit Feedback

Oct 28, 2024 – Symposium Feedback

Co-organized SUG-Pittsburgh Meetups:

Dec 20, 2023 – Abstracting personalization – CPA Australia

Jan 31, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide

Feb 21, 2024 – From Brainstorm to Brilliance: The Untold Story of Sitecore Hackathon

Mar 06, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud Forms

Apr 18, 2024 – Achieving Behavioral Personalization with XM Cloud Plus

May 02, 2024 – Sitecore Search and XM Cloud – Experiences and Learnings

Jun 05, 2024 – Tips and Tricks for Next.js and Sitecore Headless

Jul 24, 2024 – Content Hub Web Client SDK – Internal & External Integrations

Aug 28, 2024 – Sitecore Troubleshooting 101

Sep 24, 2024 – 8 Content Migration Pitfalls to Avoid and Lessons Learned

Oct 23, 2024 – Unleashing Personalization: Deep Dive into Sitecore Personalize SDK

Nov 12, 2024 – Building Dynamic RAG Applications with Vertex AI and Sitecore

YouTube – Videos published for SUG – Pittsburgh

Jan 02, 2024 – Abstracting personalization – CP

- https://youtu.be/QFOEw7vjkbs

Mar 20, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud 101 – A Beginner’s Guide

- https://youtu.be/TjQAZndlYh0

Apr 03, 2024 – From Brainstorm to Brilliance: The Untold Story of Sitecore Hackathon

- https://youtu.be/EEblvWsZcjw

Apr 12, 2024 – Sitecore XM Cloud Forms

- https://youtu.be/TSNZSNKTqBE

May 6, 2024 – Achieving Behavioral Personalization with XM Cloud Plus

- https://youtu.be/oi7nYzWHVhA

May 22, 2024 – Sitecore Search and XM Cloud – Experiences and Learnings

- https://youtu.be/DzrZabKY13w

June 11, 2024 – Tips and Tricks for Next.js and Sitecore Headless

- https://youtu.be/IHr8m-4QtJI

Aug 5, 2024 – Content Hub Web Client SDK – Internal & External Integrations

- https://youtu.be/u_klShQ7S4I

Sep 3, 2024 – Sitecore Troubleshooting 101

- https://youtu.be/yuiWnQm1Q0c

Oct 8, 2024 – 8 Content Migration Pitfalls to Avoid and Lessons Learned

- https://youtu.be/pP88ltgFFyk

Co-organized SUG-Philadelphia Meetups:

Aug 29, 2024 – The Architecture of $ (contentReplacementTokens) in Headless SXA with Next.js

YouTube – Videos published for SUG – Philadelphia

Sep 18, 2024 – The Architecture of $ contentReplacementTokens in headless SXA with Next.js

Conferences I attended:

Symposium

MVP Summit

MVP Lunches

MVP Webinars

All SUG Pittsburgh and Queen City meetups

Many SUG Boston/ Columbus/ Atlantic meetups

Plans for 2026:

Learn and contribute:

Composable DXP

Sitecore Saas Offerings

Containerization

Co-organize :

Monthly SUG-Pittsburgh meetup

Quarterly SUG-Philadelphia meetup

Present:

SUGCON EU/Symposium

SUG Meetups

Happy New Year! Happy Sitecoring!

December 22, 2024

Sitecore / Solr / Tika

Sitecore: Apache Tika Integration for Secure Media File Indexing

Problem

We have some secure PDFs in Media Library that were not getting indexed in Solr – They couldn’t be extracted using the PDFSharp library.

The logs were showing the error while extracting secure files

16804 12:04:53 ERROR DefaultMediaItemTextExtractor: Cannot extract content from media item with id ‘{442006A5-8CB6-4ABE-8855-786D2A870201}’.
Exception: PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReaderException
Message: The PDF document is protected with an encryption not supported by PDFsharp.
Source: PdfSharp
at PdfSharp.Pdf.Security.PdfStandardSecurityHandler.ValidatePassword(String inputPassword)
at PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReader.Open(Stream stream, String password, PdfDocumentOpenMode openmode, PdfPasswordProvider passwordProvider)
at PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReader.Open(String path, String password, PdfDocumentOpenMode openmode, PdfPasswordProvider provider)
at Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentExtraction.Readers.PdfSharpReader.ReadAll(String filePath)
at Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentExtraction.Common.DefaultMediaItemTextExtractor.ExtractTextFromMedia(MediaItem mediaItem)

38536 12:04:53 ERROR DefaultMediaItemTextExtractor: Cannot extract content from media item with id ‘{442006A5-8CB6-4ABE-8855-786D2A870201}’.
Exception: PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReaderException
Message: The PDF document is protected with an encryption not supported by PDFsharp.
Source: PdfSharp
at PdfSharp.Pdf.Security.PdfStandardSecurityHandler.ValidatePassword(String inputPassword)
at PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReader.Open(Stream stream, String password, PdfDocumentOpenMode openmode, PdfPasswordProvider passwordProvider)
at PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReader.Open(String path, String password, PdfDocumentOpenMode openmode, PdfPasswordProvider provider)
at Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentExtraction.Readers.PdfSharpReader.ReadAll(String filePath)
at Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentExtraction.Common.DefaultMediaItemTextExtractor.ExtractTextFromMedia(MediaItem mediaItem)

Solution

If you would like to disable the media indexing by applying the following patch – Sitecore.Support.DisableMediaIndexing.config

If you like to index the media content, Sitecore recommends using the following libraries IFilter, Apache Tika, or SolrCell.

Azure web apps have a limitation in using the IFilter library so I ended up using Apache Tika.

Steps to Integrate:

Download the Apache Tika server file –tika-server-1.22.jar.
- Sitecore recommends Apache Tika version 1.22 refer to the compatibility table for your version
Save the server file in a folder on SOLR server e.g: c:\tika
In PowerShell navigate to the path and execute the following command to install.

java -jar tika-server-1.22.jar

Note: The default hostname is localhost and the port is 9998.

If you would like a specific hostname and port number that could be included in the installation command as parameters

java -jar tika-server-1.22.jar –host=<Tikahostname> –port=<portnumber>

After the installation is completed open the following URL http://localhost:9998 to see if it is working as expected. You should see the welcome message!

Add the following patch file into App_Config/Include/zzz folder to replace DefaultMediaFileTextExtractor from Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentExtration.

Last step – Let’s add Tika URL into ConnectionStrings.config file.

<add name=”tika” connectionString=”http://localhost:9998″ />

Let’s test quickly – Rebuild a Tree in the Developer Ribbon for one item or you could Rebuild the entire index.
Once the indexing is completed check and see if we have the media item available in the index.

Quick Tip: To search for a particular item in Solr, use the following query in the parameter q on your index page

_uniqueid:*[item id in lowercase without braces]*

Secure PDFs are indexed successfully in Solr! Yay!
If you are using SearchStax Solr Cloud, reach out to the support to get it added to your instance.
- https://www.searchstax.com/docs.hc/can-we-use-apache-tika

Hope this helps.

Happy Sitecoring!

August 28, 2024

Sitecore

Quickly Setup Sitecore 10.3 XM with SIA

The latest version Sitecore 10.3, is packed with new features and enhancements that make it easier than ever to manage your digital content and deliver personalized experiences to your customers.

If you’re looking to install Sitecore 10.3 XM, one of the easiest ways to do it is by using the Sitecore Install Assistant (SIA). In this blog post, let’s walk through the steps to install Sitecore 10.3

Prerequisites:

A Windows machine with a minimum of 16GB of RAM
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 or later
IIS 10 or later
.NET Framework 4.8 or later
Microsoft PowerShell 5.1 or later

Preparation:

Download the installation package (Graphical setup package XM scaled) from here.

Installation:

Extract the downloaded zip file

Right-click on the Setup.exe and execute in Administrator mode

Install the prerequisites

Install Solr 8.11.2 by entering the Port, Windows service path prefix, and Install path

Note: Make sure the port number differs from earlier Solr-installed versions. Check out my blog to discover which processes are using which ports – https://madhuanbalagan.com/sitecore-10-sif-installation-roadblocks

Solr installation is successful!

Fill out the Site prefix, admin password(going with b, so easy to remember), and choose the Sitecore license file

Fill out the SQL server Instance name, admin username, and password.

It auto-fills Solr URL, System root, and Windows service name

Note: Navigate to Solr URL and ensure it’s running as expected

Select the optional module if you plan to create a Headless SXA site

Review the summary to make sure the settings are correct

The Installation wizard in SIA validates all the settings before starting the install

Installation takes around 10-15 minutes (you can get a coffee!). If it errors out, check out the log.

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

Let’s log in and explore!

Roadblocks:

Error # 1: Solr access to the path denied

Solr installation failed with error – Access to the path ‘C:\Users\MANBAL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\solr-8.11.2\server’ is denied.

Resolution:

I wasn’t running at the setup.exe in Admin mode. Ran in Admin mode (restarted the machine just in case) fixed the issue.

Error # 2: Unable to create core index

Error CREATEing SolrCore Unable to create core [wc10.3.xm.local_core_index] Caused by: Can’t find resource ‘solrconfig.xml’ in the classpath or ‘C:\Solr\Solr.8.11.2solr-8.11.2\server\solr\sc10.3.xm.local_core_index’

Resolution:

Do not use the same port used for the earlier installation. For some reason, it doesn’t work. Always use the new port and new Solr instance name.

Now that we installed Sitecore 10.3 XM, I’ll be installing Sitecore Headless Rendering (previously known as the JSS module) in my next blog post.

Hope this helps. Happy Sitecoring!

April 5, 2023

SIF / Sitecore

Sitecore 10 SIF Installation Roadblocks

Sitecore 10 was out a couple of months back. I installed it using SIF, hit a couple of roadblocks while installing and sharing the resolutions that helped resolve the issues.

If you haven’t installed Sitecore 10, here are some blogs that help you install.

Sitecore 10 using SIF: https://scorewow.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/install-sitecore-10-in-10-using-sif/

Sitecore 10 using SIA: https://madhuanbalagan.com/installing-sitecore-10-using-sia

Error # 1: Solr Port Issue

I have multiple Solr services running for different versions of Sitecore and here is the error I got while installing Sitecore 10.

“Port 8984 is already being used by another process. Please choose a different port”.

Run services.msc to check how many Solr’s are running on the machine.

Resolution:

If you have multiple instances of Solr running and you don’t know what port, it’s associated with. Here is a quick way to get the process name and kill if it’s is no longer needed.

Find which process using Solr port

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort $portNumber).OwningProcess

Also when installing the Solr, you can add the Port Name and Sitecore Version number or any information in the Description of Details tab.

This is life saver, do not need to worry about which Solr maps which port in the future!

Error # 2: SQL User Issue

“msdeploy.exe : Error: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 12809, Level 16, State 1, Line 5 You must remove all users with password before setting the containment property to NONE. At C:\ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\SitecoreInstallFramework\2.2.0\Public\Tasks\Invoke-CommandTask.ps1:31 char:13”

Resolution:

For some reason, the SC10 uninstall did not remove all the variables for failed instances. I removed the ‘sc10_CollectionUser’ in local DB users, fixed the issue.

Error # 3: Credential Issue

“Install-SitecoreConfiguration: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘Credential’. This error might have been caused by applying the default parameter binding. You can disable the default parameter binding in

$PSDefaultParameterValues by setting $PSDefaultParameterValues[“Disabled”] to be $true, and then trying again. The following default parameters were successfully bound for this cmdlet when the error occurred: -Debug -WarningAction

-Verbose -InformationAction -ErrorAction

At C:\ResourceFiles\XP0-SingleDeveloper.ps1:77 char:1

+ Install-SitecoreConfiguration @singleDeveloperParams *>&1 | Tee-Objec …

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Install-SitecoreConfiguration”

Resolution:

The SqlServer module wasn’t installed by default, so I had to do it manually.

Ran this on Powershell command fixed the issue.

Install-Module -Name SqlServer -AllowClobber

Hope this helps someone. Any issues, let me know in the comments section.

Happy Sitecoring!

October 8, 2020

Sitecore

Install Sitecore 9.3 (using SIA) quickly in 20 minutes!

I’m participating in Sitecore Hackathon 2020 for the second time. One of the requirement is to have sitecore 9.3 installed on your machine except for commerce . I want to share my experience how i quickly installed Sitecore 9.3 using SIA(Sitecore Install Assistant) in 20 minutes!

Note: No need install any prerequisites(includes Solr) 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 if needed.

Install Solr 811 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 license file path.

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

Fill out the Solr URL, System root and Windows service name

Note: Go to Solr URL to make sure it’s running successfully.

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 9.3 here

Happy Sitecoring!

January 26, 2020

Sitecore

Install Sitecore 9.1 quickly in 5 easy steps

I’m participating in Sitecore Hackathon for the first time this year. One of the requirement is to have sitecore 9.1(Initial version) installed on your machine. So I want to share my experience how i quickly installed Sitecore 9.1 using SIF on developer machine in 5 easy steps. This post includes the prerequisites, preparation and installation.

Prerequisites:

OS: Windows 10, Windows Server 2016
DB:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017 or 2016 SP2 – Supports the XM database and is the required for the xDB
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Sp2 – Only supports XM databases and does not support the xDB
- MongoDB Server 3.6.6 – This is required if you are going to use MongoDB for the Collection database or as a Session State Provider
IIS 10
. NET
- Sitecore XP 9.1.0 requires .NET Framework 4.7.1
- Sitecore Identity server requires .NET Core Runtime 2.1.3
- You must apply any available updates to the .NET Framework on every Sitecore installation
Search Indexing
- Solr 7.2.1 – Default search provider
- Azure Search – supported and recommended for Azure Cloud PaaS deployments only
- Lucene – Only supports content search and does not support xConnect.
Powershell 5.1 – for Installing SIF

Preparation:

Download installation package(XP Single) from here
Extract the zip file you just downloaded
Again extract this file – XP0 Configuration files 9.1.0 rev. 001564.zip

Copy your license.xml file (If you have enrolled for Hackathon, you should have received the file in email)

Now let’s begin the installation!

Step 1: Solr 7.2.1 Install

Check out Jeremy Davis’s low effort Solr installs. It’s pretty cool! https://jermdavis.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/low-effort-solr-installs/

If you want to take traditional approach(Install as service using NSSM tool), here are the steps

Download Solr from here
Install as service using NSSM tool

It opens the NSSM Service Installer like below. Fill out the fields.

Note: If you already another version of solr running, make sure to give different port name.

Solr 5 running as a service on Microsoft Windows

Step 2: Install SIF

Run the following scripts in Powershell as administrator.

Register-PSRepository -Name SitecoreGallery -SourceLocation https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-powershell/api/v2;
Install-Module SitecoreInstallFramework;
Install-Module SitecoreFundamentals;
Update-Module SitecoreInstallFramework;
Update-Module SitecoreFundamentals;
Import-Module SitecoreFundamentals -Force;
Import-Module SitecoreInstallFramework -Force;

Step 3: Update config files

Update the following files in the folder with the exact information – solr path, solr service name, configsets path, instance name for sitecore, SQL instance name and login credentials.