Installation of Crm 2011 on windows server 2012 is now fully supported after the release of rollup 13. The only thing you need is the updated installation files and patch for Windows Server 2012.
The updated installation file can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27822 this was published on 1/20/2012.
Next you will need the patch for Windows Server 2012,This will be downloaded automatically if you select Get Updates during the installation, however in case your server does not have internet access then you will have to manually download the files. These can be hard to find as I discovered but looking hard enough you can figure it out.
Just to save people time here is the link to the updated installation files. Go to the Microsoft Update catalogue site http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/home.aspx
Do a search for CRM.
After downloading the update patch files, you will need to copy them to a location on your server. Note you only need to copy the file relevant to you language in English's case this is 1033. After than you will need to start the installer using command line and specify the location of the patch files in the xml element.
<Patch update="true">\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Downloads\crm patch\Server_KB2434455_amd64_1033.msp</Patch>
Now when you run the installation from the command line using the XML config file, you will be easily able to install CRM on Windows server 2012 and SQL Server 2012.
Hope this saves some time.
In the next post I will shed some light on using CRM 2011 on windows server 2012
Happy CRMing!
The updated installation file can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27822 this was published on 1/20/2012.
Next you will need the patch for Windows Server 2012,This will be downloaded automatically if you select Get Updates during the installation, however in case your server does not have internet access then you will have to manually download the files. These can be hard to find as I discovered but looking hard enough you can figure it out.
Just to save people time here is the link to the updated installation files. Go to the Microsoft Update catalogue site http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/home.aspx
Do a search for CRM.
<Patch update="true">\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Downloads\crm patch\Server_KB2434455_amd64_1033.msp</Patch>
Now when you run the installation from the command line using the XML config file, you will be easily able to install CRM on Windows server 2012 and SQL Server 2012.
Hope this saves some time.
In the next post I will shed some light on using CRM 2011 on windows server 2012
Happy CRMing!
