Installing Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.1 with Default Storefront Tenant and Site

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In this article, we will look at applying a workaround in order to install the default storefront tenant and site during the Sitecore Commerce 9.1 installation as unfortunately there’s a bug that prevents these from being created during the installation.

Workaround Steps

1. Following on from the installation guide’s step, 2.2. Download the Sitecore XC release package and prerequisites, navigate and extract the file named xml from Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator Storefront 2.0.181.zip\package.zip\items\master\sitecore\system\Modules\PowerShell\Script Library\CXA – Internal\Web API\CreateDefaultStorefrontTenantAndSite\{6FEC77C8-00DC-4B7B-9597-82588616A1F2}\en\1.
2. Open the file and add the following snippet before Function CreateCXATenant.

   #Override Write-Progress to avoid errors which happen because of impossibility to write-progress in non-interactive sessions
   Function Write-Progress {
       [CmdletBinding()]
       param(
           [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
           $Activity,
           [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
           $CurrentOperation,
           [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
           $Status,
           [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
           $PercentComplete,
           [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
           [switch]$Completed
       )
       process {
           # do nothing
       }
   }
   

3. Replace the file in the archive with the updated file.
4. Continue to follow the installation guide.

When the deployment script run in step 3.2. Run the deployment script, the default tenant and site will now be created.