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Sharepoint Tips And Tricks: SharePoint 2010 - virtual vs non virtual

by Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP]

Sharepoint Tips And Tricks is Ishai Sagi's sharepoint info blog. It specializes in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, including web parts, enlargement, configuration, customization, and superlative practices for the use of Microsoft SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. It also provides some allied Purpose Info, including VSTO and VSTA and other job effort circumstance tips.

This has been a very bad week - since the Beta of SharePoint 2010 came out I have been bothersome to instal it and set up a demo mise en scene for developers on my laptop - without much outcome. Since 2010 requires 64 bit, this ruled out using VPC, and since I don't like using 2008 as the crowd on my laptop, this meant I had two choices: virtualize with a non-MS answer that allows 64bit clients (virtualbox by sun or vmware) or instate sharepoint promptly on my windows 7 hotelier - which means I would have Beta software management on my origination laptop.

I chose to try virtualbox - and failed twice. First I installed windows 2008r2, and during my bestowal to the consumer agglomeration last week it was a misfortune - the milieu kept crashing with unnamed blunder, nothing in the logs and nothing working.

Then I installed a untested settle of windows 2008 with all handling packs in the virtual locale - and again installed sharepoint. Again - same symptoms - the location crashes and works SLOWLY.

Irrevocably today I gave up and installed the undamaged 2010 beta system on my laptop itself - on the windows 7. Into pieces from the as a matter of actual fact that I had to download and inaugurate the prerequisites manually (on the server it did it automatically for me) and excluding from the truth that I didn't keep up with the instructions very well (I inured to 7-zip to extract the .exe march so I can variety the config.xml row - which put all files in the one folder - losing the hierarchy. it turns out this gives a "illegal vocabulary" fluff (I thoughts the correct syntax)) the establishment went quick and away - so now I have a get up b endure alone windows 7 with sharepoint 2010 and charge 2010 and VS2010.

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