SharePoint 2013 dev server deployment guide can be found
here
Scenario
- You want a SharePoint Server 2010 virtual machine for local development work.
- This may be shared throughout the development team.
- This can be hosted on a shared workstation or server via Remote Desktop or on your personal workstation or laptop.
- Snapshots of the VM can be taken at any time.
- Make sure you have the appropriate licenses for each instance of the VM.
- MS has some good options for VM licensing and development licenses with an MSDN subscription
- MOSS 2010 Standard or Enterprise
- You want to use non-expiring app licenses
- You want the VM to have its own domain and email capabilities
- You want the following components (64bit where available)
Prerequisites
- Your workstation must be running a 64bit processor with Hardware Virtualization enabled
- You must have enough memory (4GB rec), disk space (50GB rec), and processor power (2 cores rec) to run the VM and hold all snapshots
- I highly recommend running this VM from a solid state drive (SSD) for optimum performance. Disk speed is the greatest limiter for performance and if your RAM is limited, then the SSD swap file will help compensate.
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You must have access to and appropriate licensing for above products
- You must have time (about 8 hours) to install everything.
- Hints:
- Look for "Wait" for good break points
- Snapshots can be used to create other virtual machines or to test minimally installed environments
How To
- Download the Software Listed Above
- Install VirtualBox and the Extension Pack or VMWare
- Create a new virtual machine named "sps2010" for Windows 2008 (64bit)
- 4096 GB RAM
- 100GB dynamically expanding boot hard disk
- You will likely use 45GB of this without any content
- Mount the Windows Server 2008 R2 ISO
- Enable RDP support
- Start the sps2010 virtual machine
- The Windows Server 2008 R2 installer should begin
- Select Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (Full Installation)
- Select New Installation
- Set a new administrator password
- Install VirtualBox Guest Additions or VMWare Tools
- Authenticate Windows
- Rename the server to sps2010
- Note: If you forget this step, you will have a randomly named server.
I have included instructions for aliasing and configuring a randomly named server.
- Shut down and take a Snapshot named "Windows Install"
- Enable Remote Desktop for all versions
- Add Roles
- Active Directory Domain Service
- You will get a Windows Update is not enabled warning.
- Select "Close this wizard and launch the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard"
- Ignore the "Operating System Compatibility" warning
- Select "Create a new domain in a new forest"
- FQDN: sp.local
- Forest functional level: Windows Server 2008 R2
- Ignore DHCP warning
- Ignore DNS warning, click Yes
- Use same password as admin user above
- Reboot on completion
- Add Roles
- Server Roles
- Application Server
- Web Server (IIS)
- Application Server / Role Services
- Web Server (IIS) / Role Services
- Install
- Windows Update: Turn on auto updates
- Install Updates and Long Wait
- Reboot when prompted
- Open Active Directory Administrative Center
- Create a user
- Full Name: User
- User SamAccount: sp\user
- pass: same as admin above
- Password Options: Password never expires
- Stop and Disable the following Services
- DFS Namespace
- DFS Replication
- Shut down, snapshot "DC and IIS", and start virtual machine
- Mount the SQL Server Iso from the Virtual Box Devices menu
- Open Active Directory Administrative Center
- Create a user
- Full Name: spservice
- User SamAccount: sp\spservice
- pass: same as admin above
- Password Options: Password never expires
- Start SQL Server Setup
- Installation
- New Install
- Continue
- Ignore DC and Firewall warnings
- All Features with Defaults
- Continue
- Server Configuration / Service Accounts
- Use the same account for all SQL Server services
- specify the sp\spservice account and password created above
- Continue
- Analysis Services Configuration
- Reporting Services Configuration
- Install the SharePoint integrated mode default configuration
- Continue then Wait
- Shut down, snapshot "SQL Server", and start virtual machine
- Open SQL Server Configuration Manager
- SQL Server Network Configuration
- Protocols for MSSQLSERVER
- If your server is randomly named - not sps2010
- DNS Manager
- Forward Lookup Zones
- sp.local
- Add a new alias
- Name: sps2010
- FQDN: Browse to splocal\servername
- servername will be a randomly generated value
- Mount the SharePoint Server 2010 iso
- Start the Prerequisites installer
- Start the SharePoint Install
- Enter your Enterprise license key
- Wait
- Run the Configuration Wizard
- Create a new server farm
- Configuration Database
- Server: sps2010
- Name: SharePoint_Config
- Username: sp\spservice
- Password: same as above
- Farm Security Settings
- Passphrase: same as admin password above
- Central Admin Web App
- Short Wait
- IE will open to the central administration website.
- Login as administrator
- Move the central admin site from the Trusted Sites zone to the Local Intranet Zone
- Also add "http://sps2010" to the Local Intranet Zone
- Shut down, snapshot "Base SharePoint", and restart
- Configure Alternate Access Mappings
- Set the central admin default public url to http://sps2010:8000
- Run the Farm Configuration Wizard from Central Administration
- Use existing managed account
- All items should be checked except for Lotus Notes
- Create Root Site Collection
- New Web Application
- Name: sps2010
- Port: 80
- Path: change "80" to "sps2010"
- URL: http://sps2010
- Create a new app pool
- Name: SharePoint - sps2010
- Configurable: sp\spservice
- Database server: sps2010
- Database name: sps2010_Content
- CEIP: No
- Title: Sps2010
- Template: Publishing \ Publishing Portal
- Primary admin: sp\administrator
- Set the browser home page to http://sps2010
- Configure Search from Central Admin
- Central Admin \ Manage service applications \ Search Service Application (first one)
- Content Sources
- Local SharePoint Sites
- Schedule incremental every 5 minutes and start a full crawl
- Open http://sps2010 in IE
- Add sp\administrator to the Approvers and Members groups
- Validate that the following work
- Approval process
- Both search scopes
- My Site
- Profile
- Shut down, snapshot "SharePoint Configured", and restart
- Continue to Part 2
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