SharePoint Install Utilities Module (SPInstallUtils.psm1)

Note: Some of the cmdlets in this module require 7z.exe (http://www.7zip.org) for creating self-extractable zip files.

Installation

• Download the latest release and copy all files within the release to a folder on your hard disk
• When required, load the install utils module using Import-Module cmdlet

Get-SPPrerequisites
This cmdlet downloads the SharePoint 2010 cmdlets from internet.
Requirements

• This cmdlet requires Internet connection to download the prerequisites.
• This uses BITS Transfer cmdlets and hence requires that the BITS 4.0 package is installed on the system.

New-SPInstallPackage
This cmdlet creates a pre-packaged SharePoint 2010 package with all answer files and required pre-requisites. This also creates a setup batch file to facilitate a completely automated SharePoint 2010 install.
Requirements

• This cmdlet requires 7z.exe to extract SharePoint ISO and create self-extractable zip file. You can choose to use a folder instead of ISO.

Install-SPIFilter
This cmdlet install a specified iFilter and makes necessary changes to the search service application
Requirements

• This cmdlet requires SharePoint 2010 snapin to be loaded before executing this.