Sharepoint 2010 – complete development environment

If you are getting into Sharepoint development (professionally or of own interest) you need an environment containing a lot of Microsoft products. Even though you’ll get far with just Sharepoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 running on your own machine (preferrably 64 bit Windows Server R2, but you can get it running on Windows 7 as well), a more “production like” environment will be much better. For instance, having Active Directory available is a major advantage.

Microsoft has been generous with us here (well of course, because you would never pay hundreds of dollars up front to check out what this Sharepoint hype is all about….). They have put together a VHD image containing a whole bunch of stuff for most Sharepoint development needs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ce&displaylang=en

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
3. Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
4. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition
6. Microsoft Office Web Applications
7. Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
8. Microsoft Project Server 2010
9. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
10. Microsoft Visio 2010
11. Microsoft Project 2010
12. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Thanks Bill!