Sharepoint Solution Installer

Installing a solution in SharePoint has just become easy. We used to run the stsadm tool to deploy the wsp file into the solution store and then activate it either to a farm or a site collection. This would be a tedious process for any beginner in SharePoint as things were done in the console with no so called GUI. There is an installer, called “Solution Installer”, which provides a GUI to the process making it easy and friendly to use. In the config file accompanying the installer, we could provide the scope of the solution ie., either farm or site. Also, helps you in customizing the installer by giving an option to choose our own EULA, logo and banner image.

 

We may link the Solution installer to VS 200X IDE using the WSPBuilder