Building the Perfect SharePoint Development Environment Part 1 – VMware & OS Installation

Introduction

In this three part posting I will demonstrate the steps I followed to build out a SharePoint 2007 development environment.   If you follow the steps closely you’ll end up with a solid virtual server that you can clone and re-use as necessary.  Note that you can now build using 64 bit since Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint are now 64 bit compatible.

Main Components

  • VMWare Workstation V 6.5 (You can also use VMWare Server)
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise (32 or 64 Bit)
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Visual Studio 2008

Install Windows Server 2008 on VMware

Create a new Virtual Machine, be sure to choose the custom option so you can specify the type of virtual disk you will employ

I have since increased my allocated memory to 5 GB.

Allocate plenty of space, if you don’t you’ll have to use GParted to expand the disk later.

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