Sharepoint 2010 Installation

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I am trying to install SP2010 onto my home W7 machine so that I can get to grips with it as have been tasked to sort out our departments SP site in work (must keep my geek more hidden in future).

I have been trying to follow the guides that are on the web, but am getting no where. I keep coming up against the pre-reqs saying that it is not designed for my OS and also am having other difficulties.

Has anyone else sucessfully installed it on a stand alone W7 machine? Have 64bit W7 installed so I know that isnt an issue, but am a complete loss as to what I am doing wrong.

All help and guidance is greatly appreciated
 
Yes, I've got it running here on W7 x64. I've got a prereq script for Windows 7 which I made. I'll ping it to you tomorrow.

Alternatively, have you thought about downloading VMWare and spinning up a Server 2008R2 vm with SP2010 on?
 
Never thought about running a VM...but have never run one before so not really sure where to start on that front.

Oh, to fill in the info blank is W7 x64 Home Premium (if that makes any difference, dont know)
 
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Ok cool. A VM would be a lot easier if you can get your hands on Windows Server 2008 R2 and a hyper visor like VMware, anyway, for Windows 7 x64 here's what I did.

Start by creating a folder on your PC (say at the C drive) called SP2010.
Insert the SP2010 disc (or mount the ISO if that's what you're using)
Extract (don't copy) the contents of the disc to your folder location.

So, my target location is C:\SP2010\
At the run command, I type xcopy D:\*.* /s/e/f C:\SP2010
Where D: is my CD Drive

Let the files copy and once done:

Use this link to carry on:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx

Ignore the part about the web.config xml at step 1, Edit that right at the end once SharePoint is installed.
 
Lucero, sheers for that.

Got myself VMWare Player last night and installed a 2008CP2 Enterprise server on there......just need to figure out how to drive it now and get SP2010 installed and then connect through and use SP Designer.....nice small learning curve on this job
 
Happy to answer any questions you may have. 2008 R2(did you say?) will have some prereq dependencies on it too.

If you have the SP2010 disc, there is a prereq tool included which will tell you what you need (and should go off to the web to find it). There will be some server features you need to set up as well such as IIS and .NET.

Installing on 2K8 is far more heavily documented for you though :)
 
TBH..am not 100% sure on what I set up yesterday, was rather tired when i did it. Am heading back home in a bit, so will be able to give more info then.

I have the download of the SP10 install, not the ISO, but think that has the pre-req tool on it also. I downloaded that on my W7 side of things. Is it as simple as dragging it in to the folder where I set u[p the VM or will i need to download again via the VM?
 
Yeah, tried that and was shocked when it worked...everyday is a school day.

Have managed to get SP onto the VM server now...just working on getting SP Designer to be able to see the site so that I can modify it in that. Have been able to get to the site from Chrome on my W7 side of things (copy and paste the URL from Server side into Chrome, then put the name and password for server in when prompted) and all looks fine, but trying it in designer does not work.

Am going to be working on it this afternoon from home, so email me through trust if you want to.

Cheers
 
Stick SharePoint disigner on to the VM and see if it can connect that way. I know you can connect through the URL, but you made need to do this another way.

Assuming SharePoint is on your VM, are you trying to access it using SharePoint designer from your normal browser and not the VM? If so, you'll need to edit your hosts file so that you point the URL you are trying to connect to off to the IP address of the VM
 
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