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1. SharePoint 2019 Installation Guide - Step by Step
[Note: it’s an unstructured document, please ignore grammatical mistakes & mail me
@rudreshtewari@gmail.com in case of any further assistance.]
SharePoint 2019 is in RTM finally with all new features. Let’s walk-through SharePoint 2019
standalone installation process step by step:
System Requirements: What's my Server Farm Configuration?
Here is my SharePoint 2019 farm's server configuration (Hardware/software). Its bit slow and
checked my patient throughout installation & configuration. I had installed it in a VMware
workstation version 15. I had hosted VM in my system with 8 GB ram and 1 TB hard disk.
 Windows Server 2016 R2 Standard as Server Operating system and SQL Server 2016
Standard SP1 as my SQL Server instance.
 All my servers running with 4 GB of RAM (minimum requirement: 16 GB. For single server
installation: 24 GB) and Quad core processors. (64 bit of course!) and 60 GB in system
drive (Min: 80 GB for system drive and 100 GB for applications).
Service Accounts:
For the sake of SharePoint 2019 standalone installation (single server), I'm using these two
service accounts.
 WIN-E2TB7HBD6LRSP2019 - Setup account used for installation. You must manually
assign Member of Local Administrator group on all SharePoint Servers and SQL server
and SysAdmin role at SQL Server instance. (In fact, it just needs: DBcreator &
SecurityAdmin server roles and DBO rights on each SharePoint Databases).
 WIN-E2TB7HBD6LRSP2019SQL - Farm account / Database access account.
Necessary rights will be automatically granted on the SQL Server instance when you run
SharePoint products configuration wizard.
What’s new in SharePoint 2019 Installation?
 Modern Sites
 Modern Lists and Libraries
 Modern Pages
 Communication Sites
 OneDrive for Business sync client support
 Large file, large filename, fewer character restrictions
SharePoint 2019 Server installation steps at high level:
1. Install SharePoint 2019 prerequisites
2. Install SQL Server 2016 SP2
3. Install SharePoint Server 2019
4. Run Products configuration wizard
Step 1: Install Prerequisites
We need to install SharePoint 2019 prerequisites before installing SharePoint Server 2019. Login
with Setup account and start your SharePoint Server 2019 installation by installing the
prerequisites. Prerequisites installer will add all necessary server roles (Application Server Role,
Web Server (IIS) Role), downloads and installs all necessary components for SharePoint 2019.

2.  Mount the ISO on the drive, launch "default.hta" file (or prerequisiteinstaller.exe). You'll
see the same old Splash screen! Click on "Install software prerequisites" link under
"Install"

5. Prerequisites installer takes some time and will prompt for restart. After restart, re-run the
prerequisites again! Restart and resume back.
Even though its showing that VS C++ for VS2017 is already installed but I need to manually
installed as it raised prompt before SharePoint 2019 installation.
Step 2: Install SQL Server 2016 SP2

6. Have downloaded SQL 2016 180 days trial from below link.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2016
Once the download is completed, run the setup file (run as administrator).

7. After a few seconds the screenshot shown below will appear, check the hardware and
software requirements and click the installation tab (second tab after planning).

10. Select the required features and click next.

11. In my case I have installed all the feature for POC purpose except Polybase Query Services for
external data.

12. I am installing SQL Server very first time, so there is no instance in my case. Create a named
instance, shown below, and click next.

16. Have changed the above disk location to below named instances. Ideally it should be a separate
drives beside folders but due to lack of space I have created a below folder structure.

24. After this I searched SQL 2016 management studio at my machine but I did not found anything,
than I restarted my VM but still I did not found management studio 2016 icon then I downloaded
SQL Server Management Studio and SSDT 17.9 (SSIS, SSRS and SSAS) followed by installing
it separately.
Go to SQL Server Setup and run it, followed by Click Installation -> Install SQL Server
Management.

26. Step 3: SharePoint Server 2019 Installation
After completing prerequisites installation, run the splash.hta file again and click on "Install
SharePoint Server".

31. This was a strange error prompt. To trouble shoot this I created a separate sql account &
added it with local administrator group but IT DID NOT WORKED !

34. Till above troubleshooting window not thing worked for me than I used PowerShell script as
shown below. It prompted a credentials window, where I gave user name as machine name
as domain and logged in local admin as user.
Machine namelocal admin name
And corresponding password.

35. New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName SharePoint_ConfigDB -DatabaseServer
[ServerName] -AdministrationContentDatabaseName SharePoint_ContentDB -
Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString [password] -AsPlaintext -Force) -FarmCredentials
(Get-Credential) -localserverrole SingleServerFarm
Please read about at cmdlet New-SPConfigurationDatabase , I used ‘SingleServerFarm’
option for localserverrole parameter as I am installing on a single server.
This command will take some time and create a configuration database.
After successful completion run the SharePoint product configuration wizard again.
Step 4: Run SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard
 You'll be presented with the "Welcome to SharePoint Products" wizard. Run SharePoint
Products configuration wizard by clicking "Next" button.

38. The above image is an older one I forgot to take snap in final configuration where
configuration database name is sharePoint_Config_2019.
After that I tried to create a web site to see the new Morden site look and feel but for me the
new web application button was greyed out so I used PowerShell script once again to
proceed. (Shown as below)

39. New Morden site very first look:

40. Site setting page:

41. Central administration SharePoint 2019:

42. Site usage
Sub site:

43. Morden List:

45. Filtration is up to 10 fields.
Morden document library:

48. Installing workflow manager
Workflow Manager 1.0 download link:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35375

56. Provided a certification generation key as name@123