Some issues and solutions I faced when installing Sitecore commerce 9.1 with Sitecore 9.1.1 (9.1 Update 1)

Sitecore Commerce 9.1
  1. 1. Sitecore 9.1 update 1 issues
    1. 1.1. license.xml has not expired
  2. 2. Sitecore 9.1 Commerce install
    1. 2.1. Make sure your Identity server cert is trusted
    2. 2.2. No storefront site?
    3. 2.3. How long does the install take to complate?

The first thing to recommend is, use Viet Hoangs installation guides and his scrips, there are things like trusted itentity server certs which and needed for the commerce install that Sitecores default installation for 9.1.1 does not have:

Sitecore 9.1 update 1 issues

license.xml has not expired

You will see issues like:

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Install-SitecoreConfiguration : Failed to start service 'Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer -
sc911.xconnect.local-IndexWorker (sc911.xconnect.local-IndexWorker)'.

Failed to start service

Once the above error was sorted then I got the failiure below:

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Install-SitecoreConfiguration : Failed to start service 'Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine -
sc911.xconnect.local-MarketingAutomationService (sc911.xconnect.local-MarketingAutomationService)'.

Failed to start marketting service

Did and uninstall an reinstall and still no luck. It looks like a license file issue again, I made sure it’s the correct license, made sure all host entries and certs were deleted via the cert MMS and restarted the machine, kicked off the installation and everything worked this time!

Sitecore 9.1 Commerce install

Make sure your Identity server cert is trusted

You need to make sure that you don’t see any SSL validation error when navigating to the https:// URL of your identity server. If you have an error, then go back to you SC 9.1 Update 1 install and sort this out first.

If you’re seeing this, then your commerce installation will not complete:
Sitecore identity server not trusted
Make sure the SSL cert is trusted:
Sitecore identity server is trusted

No storefront site?

Don’t use the latest version of powershell (5.0), Viet Hoang mentions this in his blog. As far as I am concernted, Powershell Extenstion 4.7.2 is mandatory for a SC 9.1 Commerce install.
No Storefront site

How long does the install take to complate?

It took my i7 18GB RAM SSD laptop almost an hour to complete:
Installation time for commerce

Sitecore Commerce 9.1 Sitecore Commerce Install Sitecore 9.1 Update 1
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