The Semi-Automated Install of ILM 2 Beta 3

October 22, 2008

ILM 2 Beta 3 won’t perform a completely automatic quiet install but we can come close. Colleague Brad Turner and I have developed the following approach to the install and the post install tasks.

Brad worked out most of the issues with the ILM 2 Services install itself and then I worked on most of the issues with the post install tasks. I will cover the install of the Metadirectory services first, then the ILM 2 Beta 3 Identity Management Platform Services including its batch files and then discuss the post install tasks and present its related files.

First up the install of the Metadirectory services. At this point I assume you have covered the prerequisites mentioned in the ILM “2” Beta 3 Installation Guide (of course we posted some of this to the community content there).

Be sure and put in your own preexisting AD groups and path to the installation folder, as well as service account and password.

InstallSync.cmd

@echo off
rem This section specifies Group names, adding the domain\ in front configures them as a domain based group
set GROUPADMINS=“info\ILM Admins”
set GROUPOPERATORS=“info\ILM Operators”
set GROUPACCOUNTJOINERS=“info\ILM Joiners”
set GROUPBROWSE=“info\ILM Browse”
set GROUPPASSWORDSET=“info\ILM PasswordSet”

rem ILM or DB directory?
set DBFileLocation=SQLDefault
set DBFILEMMSLOCATION=“0”

rem To Use local server and instance (Default):
set SQLServerStore=LocalMachine
set SQLServerInstance=DefaultInstance

rem Installation Folder for x64
set INSTALLDIR64=“E:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Integration Server”

rem SERVICEACCOUNT is the Sync Engine Account
set SERVICEACCOUNT=svc.ilmsync
rem SERVICEDOMAIN is the domain the Sync Engine Account is in
set SERVICEDOMAIN=info
rem SERVICEPASSWORD is the password for the Sync Engine Account
set SERVICEPASSWORD=P@$$w0rd

msiexec /i “Identity Lifecycle Manager Evaluation.msi” /norestart /log setup.txt SERVICEACCOUNT=%SERVICEACCOUNT% SERVICEDOMAIN=%SERVICEDOMAIN% SERVICEPASSWORD=%SERVICEPASSWORD% DBFILEMMSLOCATION=%DBFILEMMSLOCATION% SQLServerStore=%SQLServerStore% SQLServerInstance=%SQLServerInstance% DBFileLocation=%DBFileLocation% GROUPADMINS=%GROUPADMINS% GROUPOPERATORS=%GROUPOPERATORS% GROUPACCOUNTJOINERS=%GROUPACCOUNTJOINERS% GROUPBROWSE=%GROUPBROWSE% GROUPPASSWORDSET=%GROUPPASSWORDSET% DBFILEMMSLOCATION=%DBFILEMMSLOCATION% INSTALLDIR64=%INSTALLDIR64%

Brad and I like to use environmental variables defined in the batch file to “self-document the batch file.” Since the install and the post install tend to reuse many of the same settings I moved all of the environmental variables into one batch file which is then called from the InstallSever.cmd file and the PostInstallTasks.cmd file. This file is called SetInstallVariables.bat:

@echo off

set MAIL_SERVER=“mail.ensynch.info”
set SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME=svc.ilmws
set SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD=P@$$w0rd
set SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DOMAIN=info
set SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=“svc.ilmws@ensynch.info
set RMS_PORT=526
set SERVICEADDRESS=localhost
set STS_PORT=527
set SHAREPOINT_PWD_RESET_SITE_URL="http://%COMPUTERNAME%/PasswordPortal/"
set SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL="http://localhost/identitymanagement/"
set SQLSERVER_SERVER="."
set SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ=info\svc.ilmma
set SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNT="%SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ%"

SET WSSSTSADM="%commonprogramfiles%\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin\stsadm"

SET INTIAL_EMAIL_ALIAS=%USERNAME%@%USERDNSDOMAIN%
SET INITIAL_DESCRIPTION="%USERNAME% Initial Admin for ILM Portal"

rem Don’t work…
set SQMOPTINSETTING=0
set MAIL_SERVER_IS_EXCHANGE=0
set MAIL_SERVER_USE_SSL=0

rem Shows up in the UI, but doesn’t apply…
rem set INSTALLDIR=“E:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Management\”

The installServer.cmd file:

@echo off

CALL SETINSTALLVARIABLES.bat

msiexec /i ilm-server-64bit.msi /log ilmserverx64.txt ACCEPT_EULA=1 MAIL_SERVER=%MAIL_SERVER% SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME=%SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME% SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD=%SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD% SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DOMAIN=%SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DOMAIN% SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=%SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL% RUNNING_USER_EMAIL=%USERNAME%@%USERDNSDOMAIN% MAIL_SERVER_IS_EXCHANGE=%MAIL_SERVER_IS_EXCHANGE% MAIL_SERVER_USE_SSL=%MAIL_SERVER_USE_SSL% RMS_PORT=%RMS_PORT% SERVICEADDRESS=%SERVICEADDRESS% STS_PORT=%STS_PORT% SHAREPOINT_PWD_RESET_SITE_URL=%SHAREPOINT_PWD_RESET_SITE_URL% SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL=%SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL% SQLSERVER_SERVER=%SQLSERVER_SERVER% SQMOPTINSETTING=%SQMOPTINSETTING% SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNT=%SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNT%

After installation of ILM 2 Beta 3 you have several post install tasks per the ILM “2” Beta 3 Installation Guide:

  1. Grant Full Control rights to the ILM “2” SharePoint site to the initial user of the site
  2. Grant user rights for the ILM “2” Windows SharePoint Services site to domain users who require it
  3. Configure the ILM “2” Password Management Portal for anonymous access
  4. Disable SharePoint Indexing
  5. Exchange Server 2007 Web Service (EWS) Configuration
  6. Exchange Server 2007 Certificate installation
  7. ILM MA permissions (SQL permissions)
  8. Verify ILM Service account group membership
  9. ILM “2” Web Portal Access

For items 1 and 2 the guide provides a command line but for steps 3-9 the guide only provides steps that must be done through the GUI.

With the help of some stsadm custom extensions written by SharePoint MVP Gary LaPointe we can easily automate step #3. We will use gl-setanonymousaccess

Step 4 could be automated by using the following standard stsadm command to stop the Search service

stsadm -o osearch -action stop -f

Or this could be handled during your WSS 3.0 install, which is how we did it. I’ll have to ping another Ensynch colleague Jeff Holliday (he calls his blog the SharePoint Redemption)  to see how he did that when he created our install for WSS 3.0

Steps 5 and 6 are manual as is 9 (well 9 is pretty involved), but 7 (ILM MA user account SQL Permissions) is easy to automate with a SQL Script. (For the time being I am going to be lazy about step 8 – which could be automated but which I leave as an exercise to the reader).

We need to create a login for the account we specified for the ILM 2 MA, grant it a user in the MSILM database and make it a member of the db_owner fixed database role.

You’ll see that I took advantage of sqlcmd’s ability to do some preprocessing replacement using parameters or environmental variables. In this case I used environmental variables. You can see wherever it says [$(something)] – like this: [$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)] which is set in the SetInstallVariables.bat file

These environmental variables are set in a batch file that calls sqlcmd to execute this file: ILMMA_Permissions.sql

USE [master]

CREATE LOGIN [$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)] FROM WINDOWS WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[MSILM]
GO

USE [MSILM]
GO
CREATE USER [$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)] FOR LOGIN [$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)]
GO

EXEC sp_addrolemember N’db_owner', N'$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)'

GO
DECLARE @myvar int
SELECT @myvar = (SELECT CASE
WHEN 1 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sys.syslogins where name = ‘$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)')
AND 1 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name ='$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)’ )
AND 1 = (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM sys.database_role_members
WHERE member_principal_id =
(SELECT top 1 principal_id FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name ='$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)' )
AND role_principal_id =
(SELECT top 1 principal_id FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name =‘db_owner’)
) THEN 0
WHEN 0 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sys.syslogins where name = ‘$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)')
THEN 1 – Couldn’t create Login
WHEN 0 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name ='$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)’ )
THEN 2 – Couldn’t map user to MSILM database
WHEN 0 = (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM sys.database_role_members
WHERE member_principal_id =
(SELECT top 1 principal_id FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name ='$(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ)' )
AND role_principal_id =
(SELECT top 1 principal_id FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name =‘db_owner’)
)
THEN 3 – Couldn’t assign user to db_owner role
ELSE 4 – unknown error
END)
EXIT(SELECT @myvar)

Here is the PostInstallTasks.cmd file:

@echo off

CALL SETINSTALLVARIABLES.bat

sqlcmd -S %SQLSERVER_SERVER%  -E -i ILMMA_Permissions.sql
if {%errorlevel%} == {4} (Echo  Unknown SQL Error
                goto SQLPermissionsError)
if {%errorlevel%} == {3} (Echo  Couldn’t assign user %SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ% to db_owner role
                goto SQLPermissionsError)
if {%errorlevel%} == {2} (Echo  Couldn’t map user %SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ% to MSILM database
                goto SQLPermissionsError)
if {%errorlevel%} == {1} (Echo  Couldn’t create Login %SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ% On SQL Server
                goto SQLPermissionsError)

echo %WSSSTSADM% -o adduser -url %SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL% -userlogin %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% -useremail %INTIAL_EMAIL_ALIAS% -username %INITIAL_DESCRIPTION%  -role “Full Control”
%WSSSTSADM% -o adduser -url %SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL% -userlogin %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% -useremail %INTIAL_EMAIL_ALIAS% -username %INITIAL_DESCRIPTION%  -role “Full Control”
echo Done Setting access for initial user
echo %WSSSTSADM% -o adduser -url %SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL% -userlogin “%SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DOMAIN%\Domain Users” -useremail users@%USERDNSDOMAIN% -username “Domain Users” -role “Contributor”
%WSSSTSADM% -o adduser -url %SHAREPOINT_SITE_URL% -userlogin “%SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DOMAIN%\Domain Users” -useremail users@%USERDNSDOMAIN% -username “Domain Users” -role “Contributor”

REM comes from here http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2008/03/set-anonymous-access.html
echo Using This tool from http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2008/03/set-anonymous-access.html   to set anonymous access
%WSSSTSADM% -o gl-setanonymousaccess -url %SHAREPOINT_PWD_RESET_SITE_URL% -anonstate entireweb
if {%errorlevel%} NEQ {0} goto oopsNeedCustomstsadm

goto end

:SQLPermissionsError
echo please  run and troubleshoot ILMMA_Permissions.sql in SQL Management studio
echo remember to replace $(SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ) with %SYNCHRONIZATION_SERVER_ACCOUNTNQ%
goto end

:oopsNeedCustomstsadm
echo go download http://www.thelapointes.com/blog/stsadm.zip then run Package\ReleaseWSS\deploy.bat
echo if the deploy.bat doesn’t work then change the first line to have the .wss.wsp like so
echo SET SOLUTION_NAME=“Lapointe.SharePoint.STSADM.Commands.wss.wsp”

:end

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