Once we have done through the installation of SQL Server 2008 R2, we will now need to follow the article KB 968872 to open the required ports on the server to connect to an instance of SQL Server. Copy the text below, paste it in a notepad and name the file OpenSqlServerPort.bat. Run it as an Admin... [More]

This is small follow-up post for SharePoint 2010 - Setup your development environment for Windows 7. The reason was Pedro's reply to the post who pointed that if you are indeed using your Windows 7 desktop for SharePoint 2010 development, the performance will not be up to the mark for general day to... [More]

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... [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 ... [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 se... [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 sharin... [More]