Sharepoint 2010 Prerequisites

In SharePoint 2010 , there are two installation wizard

1. Install prerequisites
2. Install SharePoint 2010

In first wizard the few components are installed , if not installed it will download. Do note that in beta the amount of data to be downloaded is different from what it says. for example for me it became 3MB of 0.54 MB :D which is so wrong.

The list of components are following

• Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client

• Microsoft "Geneva" Framework Runtime

• Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64)

• Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

• Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET

After these prerequisites are installed you can start the installation of SharePoint 2010 as we used to do in MOSS 2007. Do remember to update the SQL server 2008 as following

Download and Install SQL server 2008 SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19&displaylang=en

Download and Install SQL server 2008 Cumulative Update 2 for SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=970315&kbln=en-us

The updates should be installed before the following step

If updates are not installed the following error will occur and installation wont proceed

Getiing virtual enviorment ready for Sharepoint 2010 VMware

As the beta of SharePoint 2010 is out for the public (Microsoft partners and MSDN subscribers), other than those can also download it via technet site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx

Now everyone is trying to get it running. The most practice development and testing environment is virtual , so you can share , rollback and copy the virtual machines easily. For Microsoft developers the first choice is always Microsoft Virtual PC, which we extensively used for SharePoint 2007 scenarios but it seems now we have to move to another virtual visualization provider which is VMWare workstation 7.

The reason is that VPC only supports 32 bit OS, even if you download VPC for x64 OS it wont allow machine to have x64 OS.

More information about Vmware workstation http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/

• Download a 30 days trial (you have create a simple user account to do that) http://www.vmware.com/go/tryworkstation
• Activation key will be sent in an email.
• Install the VMware workstation , it will require a system reboot
• You can configure the virtual machine settings but once you try to turn it on , it will require activation key
• To setup the x64 environment , restart your system , press F10 and go to BIOS setting, Make sure that the VT (virtualization technology is enabled)
• Provide the ISO for windows server 2008 R2
• Select the Easy Ready feature and continue the installation.

Great features of Vmware so far

• Snapshot of Virtual machine (instead of copying GBs of data in VPC)
• Cloning of machine wizard ( again instead of copying GBs of data)
• Allocation of number of processors (Nothing like this in VPC)
• Split Hardrives to 2GB limit (Not available in VPC)

The Microsoft suggests Hyper-V environment of windows server 2008 which is real virtualization for sure , but i believe developers for SharePoint / project 2010 don't have either hardware availability or windows server 2008 skill set