Generally speaking, I’m a very lazy developer so that I’m always welcome the better way to do a thing. As you may know, there are many manual steps to install Sitecore demo(s) such as Habitat Home and Habitat Home Commerce. In this case, Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities should be useful for me.

For your information: https://www.jflh.ca/2018-09-07-installing-a-sitecore-instance-and-experience-commerce-for-habitat-home-the-quick-way

Note: you may want to have all of the prerequisites installed by doing the following steps (especially if you have NOT installed Habitat Home and Habitat Home Commerce yet on your machine):

• launch PowerShell as an administrator
• change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\Prerequisites
• execute .\install
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• change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\Solr
• execute .\install-solr
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Step-by-step guide for installing Habitat Home (Sitecore XP 9.0.2 and SXA 1.7.1)

1. download or clone the git repo Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities 9.0.2
2. (optional) if you don’t want to wait for a looooooong operation and have a good chance to get connection issues, you will need to:
   • download and copy / paste the following packages to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\assets
     • Sitecore 9.0.2 rev. 180604 (OnPrem)_single.scwdp.zip
     • Sitecore 9.0.2 rev. 180604 (OnPrem)_xp0xconnect.scwdp.zip
     • Note: must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading and then unzip the package below in order to get them
       • Sitecore Experience Platform 9.0 Update 2
   • download and copy / paste the following packages to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\assets\packages
     • Sitecore Powershell Extensions 4.7.2
     • Note: must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading
       • Sitecore Azure Toolkit 2.0 Update-4
       • Sitecore Experience Accelerator 1.7.1
       • Data Exchange Framework 2.0.1
       • Sitecore Provider for Data Exchange Framework 2.0.1
       • SQL Provider for Data Exchange Framework 2.0.1
       • xConnect Provider for Data Exchange Framework 2.0.1
       • Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales Provider for Data Exchange Framework 2.0.1
       • Sitecore Connect for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales 2.0.1
3. by default, only the SAT + SPE + SXA modules get installed automatically so we need to do that for the group of modules of Data Exchange Framework as well
   • open \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\assets.json and then set download to true and install to true
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4. set the SQL instance name and sa password in \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\set-installation-defaults
5. create the configuration-xp0.json file and populate it with the default values
   • launch PowerShell as an administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install
   • execute .\set-installation-defaults
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6. (optional) if you don’t want to use the default settings, you will need to adjust the appropriate values in the configuration-xp0.json file
   • launch PowerShell as an administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install
   • remove example extension out of \XP\install\set-installation-overrides.ps1.example manually or by executing copy set-installation-overrides.ps1.example set-installation-overrides.ps1
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   • open set-installation-overrides.ps1 and then correct the settings
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   • execute .\set-installation-overrides
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7. copy your Sitecore license file license.xml to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\assets
8. download and install 7-zip if NOT YET
   • Note: if the install directory is NOT “C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe”, you will need to update \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\install-xp0.ps1
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9. let’s install Experience Platform
   • launch PowerShell as an administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install
   • execute .\install-xp0
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   • you will be prompted for your https://dev.sitecore.net/ credentials – the required assets will be downloaded automatically if any, otherwise click Cancel button
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   • hopefully you can see something like this
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10. let’s install modules
    • Note: if the install directory of 7-zip is NOT “C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe”, you will need to update \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install\install-modules.ps1
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    • launch PowerShell as an administrator
    • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XP\install
    • execute .\install-modules
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    • you will be prompted for your https://dev.sitecore.net/ credentials – the required assets will be downloaded automatically if any, otherwise click Cancel button
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    • hopefully you can see something like this
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11. download or clone the git repo from Habitat Home Platform 9.0.2.2
12. Note: I don’t want to use the default settings so I need to adjust the appropriate values in cake-config.json: (thanks Kim Cu for his contribution to migrate build and deploy from Gulp to Cake)
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13. deploy Sitecore.HabitatHome.Platform
    • launch PowerShell as an administrator
    • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Platform
    • execute .\build
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    • Note: you may see the following issue with Sync-Unicorn step, just execute .\build one more time
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14. open a browser and then navigate to https://habitathome.local, you would see the default page of Sitecore website. That’s because we don’t use the default host name habitathome.dev.local so we need to correct it in Sitecore
    • log into https://habitathome.local/sitecore
    • open Desktop -> PowerShell Toolbox -> SXA Site Manager dialog
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    • select HabitatHome row and then click Open button on the top-right of SXA Site Manager dialog
    • update Host Name field to habitathome.local and Database field to master then click OK button to save
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15. refresh https://habitathome.local, you would see something like this
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Got issues?

Please send your issues (with screenshots if possible) to viet.hoang.sitecore@gmail.com so that I have a chance to understand your problem and be able to suggest the solution.

Happy Sitecore Demo Installation!