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Building a SharePoint 2010 Virtul Machine Lab

Version: 2.0

Description

This lab provides links to Internet resources and step by step instructions for building a Virtual Machine (VM) for development with SharePoint Server 2010.

Overview

Lab Time: 4 Hours

Lab Folder: C:\Student\Labs\BCS

Lab Overview: This document provides links to Internet resources and step by step instructions for building a Virtual Machine (VM) for development with SharePoint Server 2010. This VM can be used to complete the lab exercises for Critical Path Training SharePoint 2010 development courses and also for general development with SharePoint 2010.

Note that the requirements for building out a SharePoint 2010 development environment are more relaxed and have fewer requirements compared to building out a SharePoint 2010 production environment. Therefore, you should not rely on this document as your only resource when you are installing SharePoint 2010 for production use.

This setup guide assumes you will build your VM using Microsoft’s trial software. Therefore, you will not require you to supply your own product keys for Windows Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. You will begin by downloading the trial *.VHD file for Microsoft’s evaluation VM for Windows Server 2008 R2 and you will use this as a starting point.