I’m participating in Sitecore Hackathon 2020 for the second time. One of the requirement is to have sitecore 9.3 installed on your machine except for commerce . I want to share my experience how i quickly installed Sitecore 9.3 using SIA(Sitecore Install Assistant) in 20 minutes!

Note: No need install any prerequisites(includes Solr) manually, SIA will take care of it.

Preparation:

Download installation package (Graphical setup package XP Single) from here.

Installation:

Extract the file zip file downloaded and click on Setup.exe

Install the prerequisites if needed.

Install Solr 811 by filling Port, Windows service path prefix and Install path and Install.

Note: Make sure the port number is different from earlier versions of Solr installed.

Fill out site prefix, admin password(going with b, so easy to remember) and license file path.

Fill out SQL server instance name, admin username and password.

Fill out the Solr URL, System root and Windows service name

Note: Go to Solr URL to make sure it’s running successfully.

Select optional module SXA if you need. I’m going for it, time to explore SXA! Would be nice if Horizon is listed here.

Review the summary to make sure the settings are correct.

SIA validates to make sure the files look good.

Install. This takes around 10 minutes (you can get a coffee!). If it errors out, check out the log.

Yayy!! It’s installed. Is it easy to install with SIA? It’s indeed a great tool!

Check out the release notes for what’s new in Sitecore 9.3 here

Happy Sitecoring!