When Sitecore introduced Sitecore 9, they also introduced SIF (Sitecore Installation Framework). The Sitecore Installation Framework enables users to deploy and configure a Sitecore environment using a standard configuration design that can be extended through custom PowerShell functions. When that was introduced, Sitecore MVP Rob Ahnemann introduced a tool called SIF-less.

This was SIF-Less 1.0, and was a Winforms application where you actually configure a lot of parameters (where’s the license file located, where are the Sitecore 9 WDP zip files located etc…) and in the end it generates one big power-shell file, that you can run which installs the appropriate version of your Sitecore 9 install.

I’ve used SIF-Less 1.0 for my previous local deployments, but also used it as a starting point for my project team’s local environment deployments and even used it for setting up the base, and then adjusting the SIF scripts manually for deploying out on-prem infrastructures for higher environments.

So about half a year ago Rob came up with an updated version of SIF-Less tool, called 2.0. Being very busy on a project, not having the need to actually start using the new version & due to time constraints, I did’t look at the updated version. But now I’ve finally found the time and wanted to explore the new 2.0 version.

In this blogpost I would like to walk you through that various configurations you can do to start installing Sitecore 9.1 with a breeze.