Configuring Multi-Tenancy in SharePoint 2010

Create a SubscriptionSettings Service Application and Proxy

Subscription settings service application is used to keep track of Multi - Tenant services and subscription ID's. So go to the below path

Start the  Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service

Central Administration => Application Management => Manage services on server
Start the service "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service".

Create Service Application and Proxy via PowerShell

 $appPool  =  New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name Subscription_Settings_Service_Pool -Account Domain\UserName

$sa = new-spsubscriptionsettingsserviceapplication –Name SubscriptionSettingsServiceApplication –Databasename SubscriptionSettingsServiceApplicationDB –applicationpool $appPool

$sap = new-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplicationProxy –ServiceApplication $sa

Create Tenant Administration site

New-SPSite –url "http://<servername>:<port no>/sites/Tenant Administration" –template "tenantadmin#0" –owneralias Domain\UserName –sitesubscription $subscription -AdministrationSiteType TenantAdministration

Create Member Site

Before creating the Member\Tenant Site enable the Self Service Site Creation of the Web Application.

Click Manage Site Collection under SharePoint Site Section on the Tenant Administration Site

Click New  and enter the required information  then click ok.

Reference : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/04/03/sharepoint-2010-multi-tenant-hosting-part-2-configuring.aspx

 

How to Find the SharePoint 2010 Installed version

Go to the Registry of the Below path and Identify the GUID of installed SKU's


HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\InstalledProducts

• BEED1F75-C398-4447-AEF1-E66E1F0DF91E: SharePoint Foundation 2010
• 1328E89E-7EC8-4F7E-809E-7E945796E511: Search Server Express 2010
• B2C0B444-3914-4ACB-A0B8-7CF50A8F7AA0: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Trial
• 3FDFBCC8-B3E4-4482-91FA-122C6432805C: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
• 88BED06D-8C6B-4E62-AB01-546D6005FE97: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Trial
• D5595F62-449B-4061-B0B2-0CBAD410BB51: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
• BC4C1C97-9013-4033-A0DD-9DC9E6D6C887: Search Server 2010 Trial
• 08460AA2-A176-442C-BDCA-26928704D80B: Search Server 2010
• 84902853-59F6-4B20-BC7C-DE4F419FEFAD: Project Server 2010 Trial
• ED21638F-97FF-4A65-AD9B-6889B93065E2: Project Server 2010
• 926E4E17-087B-47D1-8BD7-91A394BC6196: Office Web Companions 2010 

use the below PowerShell command to get the GUID of the Installed SKUs.
 get-spfarm | select Products

Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff721969.aspx