CRM Installation Wizard Enhancements

Since the release of the CRM Installation dialog/wizard (find it here) to the CRM Community a month ago, we have had hundreds of instances executed and have received a lot very heartening and useful feedback:

This one, we particularly liked (Thanks Jukka) :

Perhaps the coolest dialog I've ever seen: https://t.co/ZO4SSaZkrZ - Full #MSDynCRM server deployment with @AgileXRM — Jukka Niiranen (@jukkan) February 22, 2016

Apart from some minor changes, like allowing Report Server Instance Name to be different to the SQL Server Instance, users have asked for the following enhancements:

  • Include Outlook Client installation
    This is currently being done and will be available soon. Also there will be pages for the installation of Report Authoring Extensions.
  • Translate dialog to other languages
    The Spanish-speaking community asked for this one. The same dialog can be translated to different languages and Spanish is being done right now and will be available soon.
  • Add CRM Upgrade Wizard (from CRM 2013 to 2015 or 2016)
    We will consider this for a future enhancement.
  • SubDialog for NLB Configuration
    We did not originally include this, as from our experience, clients usually have a more powerful load balancing solution in place and we have never seen MS NLB being used. However we will consider it for a future enhancement as it will be useful for setting up non-production environments.
  • Install CRM 2016 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Core
    Theoretically, the dialog as it is, can be used for this purpose, but when we tried it, we hit issues regarding access to Windows installation media, and even with following many suggestions on the internet, we were unable to make it work. So if anyone knows how to make the following PowerShell work remotely on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Core, comment below and we will incorporate it in the dialog:

    Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools -IncludeAllSubFeature;
  • Execute AD scripts remotely
    Right now, you need to execute the scripts locally. This will be done soon.

Please keep the feedback coming!

Happy installing!!!