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SharePoint 2010 Installation Part 3 – Install SharePoint

This article is part 3 in a 4 part series that shows how I build my SharePoint 2010 development environment from the ground up.  In the previous series I built a Windows 2008 R2, configured the Active Directory Domain Services role, provisioned SharePoint service accounts, configured the IIS role, installed and configured SQL 2008, updated SQL, and configured a SQL Server alias. Now that you've diligently followed all of the steps in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, and taken snapshots al...

SharePoint 2010 Installation Part 2 – Install SQL

This article describes the installation process for a SQL server on an all-in-one SharePoint 2010 development server. If you didn't follow Part 1 of the SharePoint 2010 Installation series you'll need to create a SQL service account to support the SQL Server 2008.  While there are many ways to configure SQL and many possible features that you can activate, the steps below demonstrate a “least” features approach allowing you to simply install and run a dumb SQL Server. Let’s start by mount...