Saturday 27 July 2019

Whats new in Sitecore 9.2? Sitecore Graphical Setup - Sitecore Installation Assistant

In this post we will talk about the new Sitecore 9.2 Sitecore Installation Assistant that sitecore provides with latest sitecore release, now and again Sitecoreians will have user interface to install Sitecore as a second approach of using SIF scripts.





Sitecore again provides a graphical setup through Sitecore installation Assistant to help setup Sitecore 9.2 without the need to interact with the script files that comes with Sitecore installation framework (SIF). Sitecore installation assistant not only help with installation Sitecore but also it checks prerequisites, downloading and installing them, all with just a simple couple of clicks. 

As you can see from the next screenshot it is a simple click you need to do to ask the assistant to help with Sitecore prerequisites, once you click on it, Sitecore will go through all prerequisites and configure them, including framework, IIS reset and even will ask for a restart if needed:


Following is a quick video you can watch of the assistant downloading and setting up Sitecore prerequisites:




Also, following video will walk you through the different steps, providing the needed information to the assistant as SQL server name and credentials, Solr Url, Sitecore instance name and password:




Hope you find this useful! 

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