Hossam Arafa « Senior Software Architect

Installing SharePoint Farm without domain controller

Mar 7th

Problem:
Installing and configuring SharePoint 2010 farm installation with SQL server 2008 R2 standard/enterprise
in a workgroup or in dmz zone with SQL Authentication and without using active directory or local accounts.Inputs and preparations:

Database installed on a box which joined or not joined to a domain controller with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
in our example 192.168.1.1

Steps to do:

1- Create a Sql user account with a name for example SPdbuser and his password is spdbpassword

2- Give the SQL account you created the following server roles (Sys Admin, Security Admin, DB Creator)

3- Go to SharePoint server and create an account called for example (FarmAdmin) and its password is (FarmPassword)

4- Install SharePoint 2010 and make sure to choose Farm installation and the (complete installation) option.

5- Go to database server and manually create 2 empty databases one for Farm configuration and the other
one for Central Administration Website Content. For example (FarmConfig, CentralAdminContent )6- Set the collation for databases as Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS

7- Go to SharePoint Server and start the command prompt and then browse to the following directory
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN

8- Type the following command and then press enter
psconfig -cmd configdb -create -server 192.168.1.1 database FarmConfig -dbuser SPdbuser
-dbpassword spdbpassword -passphrase FarmPa$$Phrase -admincontentdatabase CentralAdminContent
-user SharePointServer\ FarmAdmin -password FarmPassword

9- You will see a warning that tells you the account you used to configure the farm is a local account,
Ignore this warning

10- The configuration steps started and you will see the progress.

11- After completing the configuration, your SharePoint server now is joined to a new farm but you don’t
have a central admin website yet.

12- From start menu Run SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard.

13- Click Next and OK on the warning dialog and you will see that your SharePoint has been joined to
a new farm, choose don’t disconnect option and complete your steps to create the administration website.

14- After configuration wizard completed successfully, you now have a SharePoint farm without a domain controller.

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