SharePoint 2010 Environment Setup Options

• Use VMWare Player to run the image on Windows or Mac

  
  This option is the simplest to setup as the image includes all software necessary to performs labs for the course.
  
  Note: We have to use VMWare because Windows Virtual PC does not support 64 bit guest operating systems.
  
  Requirements:
  
  
  • 4 GBs of RAM
  • 30 GBs of hard drive space
  • AMD or Intel processor that supports virtualzation (turned on in BIOS)
  • Operating System: 64 bit Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
  
  Setup Steps:
1. Download VMWare Player from here and install it
2. Download VMWare image rar files from here (Pilothouse Consulting, Inc. About 6GB in size (20GB when rar is expanded). Need to have a good connection and ftp client software)
3. Extract the files
4. Configure the image:
• Select I moved it when prompted on whether you copied or moved the image
• Allocated at least 2.7GB of RAM
• Power up the virtual machine
5. When the server powers up, SharePoint site will be slow on initial clicks. If it's still slow after the first couple of minutes, please refer to the support section.



• Install SharePoint 2010 64 bit and Office 2010 32 bit on Windows 7 64 bit

  
  This option will provide the best performance, but requires the most setup time. For development, this is the better option.
  
  Requirements: 4 GB of RAM required; 6 GB of RAM and solid state hard drive prefferred.
  
  Steps:
1. Download SharePoint 2010 from here
2. Follow installation instructions from MSDN.
3. Download Office 2010 32 bit from here
4. Download PowerShell scripts from Pilothouse Consulting. Some scripts were taken from here and modified
5. Run users_setup.ps1 PowerShell script as administrator. It will create users used in the labs. Notice that as side effect there will be many new uses accounts at login screen on your computer
6. Optional: Run set-sharepoint-manual.ps1 PowerShell script as administrator in SharePoint 2010 Management Shell to set all SharePoint services to manual startup.
7. Optional: Run start-sharepoint.ps1 or stop-sharepoint.ps1 PowerShell scripts as administrator in SharePoint 2010 Management Shell to start or stop all SharePoint services
8. Optional: If you are going through development section, download Visual Studio 2010 from here and install it