With the new SP1 released for FIM 2010 R2 it is now supported to use SharePoint Foundation 2013 on the FIM Portal server. Installing and configuring SPF 2013 to work with FIM is however not that straight forward. In this post I will tell you how to do it and also give you some handy scripts and files you might need.

The scenario is that I am installing FIM 2010 R2 SP1 on Windows Server 2012. This means I will use SharePoint Foundation 2013 for my FIM Portal. I also use the same SQL Server as I use for my FIM Service but use a separate SQL alias for SPF in order to be able to easily move it if required.

All files discussed in this post can be downloaded from my Skydrive (app 52MB). Make sure you read the ReadMeFirst.txt file before you use anything. The configuration script is attached directly in this post if that is all you need.

Prerequisites for SharePoint Foundation 2013
If you just tries to install SPF 2013 on your Windows Server 2012 you will likely fail since the prerequisites installation will probably not succeed. One reason is that .NET Framework 3.5 cannot be added as a feature by the installer since the source files are no longer available for all features in Server 2012.
To install the Roles and Features required you can use the following PS commands.

Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Features,Web-Server,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-App-Dev,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Net-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Security,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Mgmt-Compat,Web-Metabase,Application-Server,AS-Web-Support,AS-TCP-Port-Sharing,AS-WAS-Support, AS-HTTP-Activation,AS-TCP-Activation,AS-Named-Pipes,AS-Net-Framework,WAS,WAS-Process-Model,WAS-NET-Environment,WAS-Config-APIs,Web-Lgcy-Scripting,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation,Xps-Viewer –Source R:\sources\sxs

As you can see that is quite a one-liner and the key part for success is the -Source parameter in the end that needs to point to a valid Server 2012 sources folder, like the DVD. The source path can be managed by setting a group policy but if you would like to do that i ask you to search the web and you will find it.

At one customer I also ran into the problem that the FIM server did not have Internet access and so I was forced to download the prerequisites for SPF 2013 and run the prerequisites installer manually. One thing here is that you cannot manually install the prerequisites, you have to let the SharePoint prerequisites installer do the job. In the download on my Skydrive you will find the required files as well as a cmd file to run the installer. In order to use this you need to extract the SharePoint.exe file into a folder in order to run the prerequisiteinstaller.exe using the command line.

Installing SharePoint Foundation 2013
The installation I did not automate since it is only one choice to make and one thing to remember.
I select to do a Full installation during the setup. This basically adds all required bits and pieces required by SPF but do not configure anything. NOTE! At the end you need to remember to UNCHECK the Run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard now. at the end of the installation. We will do this manually.

Configuring SharePoint Foundation 2013 for FIM
If you look at the official TechNet guideline for using SharePoint Foundation 2013 with FIM, you will find that it only points out a few things to remember. But since I also want do the whole configuration for SPF I have created a PowerShell script that does all the things mentioned on TechNet but also all the other things required to use SPF. In order to use it you will need to walk through it and change the passphrase, account names and website names to fit your needs. The script will take a few minutes to run so don’t be alarmed if nothing happens for a while. Once the script is finished your environment is ready for you to install the FIM Portal.