I will tell you about my hardware setup and the reason why I am posting this. I am sure I am not alone who has faced this!!! I have a laptop with 4GB RAM and I wanted to use this as my SharePoint development environment. The first question was the choice of OS – Windows 7 or Windows 2k8 R2 Server. I decided to go with Windows 7 for obvious reasons and very soon realized that if I install all the beta products (SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010 beta being the minimum) tha... [More]

Objective 1 –> Install all the pre-requisites on the system that was created in part 2. Objective 2 –> Install SharePoint 2010 beta 2 binaries. Notes: 1. This is a public beta and there is no support available. It is to be used only for evaluation purposes 2. Software that needs to be downloaded…     a. OfficeServer.exe     b. Products Keys = BV7VC-RMR6B-26P6Y-BTQDG-DX2KQ OR PKXTJ-DCM9D-6MM3V-G86P8-MJ8CY     c. WCF Hotfix... [More]

Objective –> Run DCPromo on the system that was created in part 1. This is not a recommended way of setting up SharePoint, but due to the hardware limitations on my laptop I have no other choice. Basically, this will be a 1 server setup of SharePoint 2010 beta 2. In the part 1, a machine was setup with Win 2k8 R2 server x64, and Hyper-V enabled. In this post, the objective is to promote the machine to a domain controller. Click Start –> Run –> Type DCPROMO –> Click Ok  ... [More]

Objective 1 –> Installing Hyper-V on a Windows 2k8 R2 x64. This will be the Host OS. Objective 2 –> Creating a Virtual Machine with the OS as Win 2k8 R2 x64. This will be the Guest OS. Learning new stuff is the best part of my job. And for me the biggest motivation for learning is sharing. I just tend to learn more in the process and it feels really good when I get a random comment or mail saying it helped someone, somewhere out in the globe. I always have a lot on my plate to learn,... [More]