Installing SQL Server Guide
Notes: Disable windows Firewall
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Setup is now preparing to launch Setup Support Rules window:
Now Setup Support Rules will run to identify problems that may occur during
the Setup Support Files installation:
Once this step finishes click OK to proceed to Product Key window, In the
Product Key window, enter the Product license key (if required), and
click Next to continue:
In the License Terms window, tick the box I accept the license terms and then
click Next to continue:
These files are necessary to perform the actual installation. Following the
installation of the setup support files, you will be presented with another
compatibility check. Following dialog appears once you successfully pass
these checks. You can click the Show Details button under the green
progress bar if you want to see the individual checks listed:
Click Next to continue to the Setup Role page:
Select SQL Server Feature Installation option and then Next to continue to
Feature Selection page:
Choose Default instance
Note: This screen also report on other instances installed on this
machine.
Click Next to proceed to the Disk Space Requirements page:
This is just a information page that does not require you to make any choices.
Click Next to go to Server Configuration page:
Choose “Mixed Mode Authentication”. You will also need to specify the SQL
Server administrators to be used; in this example I will use the current logged
in user by clicking Add Current User button:
Click FILESTREAM tab and enable this feature as below:
FILESTREAM feature is quiet useful when binaries or other data that does not
fit neatly in a table structure.
Click Next to proceed to Analysis Services Configuration page, this is similar
to Database Engine Configuration page.
Specify users or accounts that will have administrator permissions for Analysis
Services in Account Provisioning page and specify non-default installation
directories in Data Directories page:
Click Next to continue to Reporting Services Configuration page, specify the
kind of Reporting Services installation to create. For the purpose of this article,
I will use Install and Configure option:
For more information about Reporting Services configuration modes and the
options we have, seeReporting Services Configuration Options (SSRS).
Click Next to proceed to Distributed Replay Controller page, specify the users
you want to grant administrative permissions to for the Distributed Replay
controller service and then click Next to continue:
Distributed Replay Client Configuration page appears, here specify setting as
shown in next figure:
Click Next to advanced to Error Reporting page, tick the check box if you want
to send Windows and SQL Server error reports to Microsoft:
Click Next, Now System Configuration Checker will run some more rules that
will validate your computer configuration with the SQL Server features you
have specified:
Correct any errors reported in the Installation Rules screen and click
on Next to advanced to Ready to Install page. This page shows a tree view of
installation options that were specified during Setup. On this page, Setup
indicates whether the Product Update feature is enabled or disabled and the
final update version:
Click Install button to start SQL Server 2012 installation. The Setup will first
install the required prerequisites for the selected features followed by the
feature installation. The Installation Progress page provides status so that you
can monitor installation progress as Setup continues:
When the installation is complete, click on Next to Complete page:
Click on the link to review the installation log if appropriate, then click
on Close.
This finalizes the installation process for SQL Server 2012.