SharePoint Development Environment Construction

Development Environment: Windows 7

1. Download The officeserver.exe file first. According to Microsoft's official requirements, it cannot be installed on window 7. Google. Get this: Success.

If you are a developer for Sharepoint your best friend has been virtual PC or VMware. It's time to introduce a new friend, bamboo nation's getting pointonvista J

We have put together an installer that allows you to install wss3.0 SP1 on Vista, both x86 and x64. this will allow you to develop on your workstation with all the power of a non-virtualized environment. you still need VPC and VMWare so don't feel sorry.

There's been much discussion about SharePoint being a "bad" development platform. this will remove the objection that you need to develop on a server OS. I think we all as SharePoint developers have built our "virtualization skills" to a comfortable level now so it's time to give us a break

So please download the setup helper and try it out. I really want to hear from you about problems you encountered so we can fix them. please leave your comments here or we can discuss in this forum. it wocould be nice to hear about successful installations too J

Update: If you run Windows Vista Home Premium IIS only supports basic authentication. Therefore you must manually enable basic authentication in the IIS Management Console.

Update: John McBride has posted a solution for all of us that runs Vista 64 bit so we can install the new vsewss 1.2 with support for vs 2008. just go here to see how to solve it. thanks John!

You no longer need this workaround since the latest version of vsewss 1.3 CTP supports 64bit operating systems and we have successfully installed it on both Vista and windows7. look at this post for more information.

Update: Jim parshall has created a detailed video tutorial that walks you through everything you need to do to get WSS running on Vista. it's pretty big so it takes a while to download but it's well worth it. click here to get the video. thanks Jim!

Update: If you are installing on Windows 7 RC (build 7100) You need to read this post before continuing.

If you are interested to know how we did it read this post.

Current limitations:

• You must select the advanced option during install.

• If you want to run on sqlexpress, manually install it first. Get it here.

• You have to manually enable iis7 with the proper options (explained ).

• Your workstation has to be part of a domain. Update: This is not required.

Here's how you install it.

First download the installation helper and the correct version of WSS with SP1.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0x64 with Service Pack 1

Go here to download our setup helper File

Now run the setup helper (Wssvista. MSI).

You will see an UAC prompt select continue to proceed with the installation.

Once the install has completed you will find the setuplauncher.exe In the install location you selected. If you didn't change the default option you will see it under the directory ..\Program Files \ wssonvista \ setup

Processing iis7

Before we go any further we need to make sure iis7 is installed with all required options.

Go to control panel and clickPrograms.

Under program and features clickTurn windows features on or OFF.

Under Windows features selectWeb management toolsAndWorld Wide Web Services. Enable at least the following options and choose OK.

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista.

After completing the above steps it's time for the interesting part. LocateSetuplauncher.exeAnd start it. You will once again see an UAC prompt, selectContinue.

After the setuplauncher run, select the WSS Installation FileSharepoint.exe,Or the moss installation file, and click OK. First, the package will be extracted.

The following is the installation:

Note that you should enter a Windows user instead of an SQL user. Maybe I am using the English version. I have always entered an SQL user and reported an error, changed to a Windows user.

Then configure Sharepoint. Here, refer to this article.Article: Http://dingwei.blog.51cto.com/194576/38651

Follow the steps above, but the following error occurs: iis not found. The solution is as follows: Installing metabase compatibility. The configuration is as follows.

This completes the configuration process of SharePoint.