Where Does The Time Go?
Interestingly enough, I just noticed that my last post was on my birthday. What was I doing blogging on my birthday??? Anyway, that aside, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything and that’s because it’s been awhile since I’ve seriously done anything technical. Naturally, I can’t stop tinkering, that just doesn’t happen when you love technology. But between Christmas holidays and the birth of my third child, I’ve been otherwise occupied.
However, as exciting as all that is, it’s time to get back to into the thick of things! Once again, I’ll be looking at SharePoint 2010. I’ve been working with SharePoint 2007 WCM lately at work and, to be honest, it’s a less than delightful experience. To make matters worse, I’m not doing any of the actual development work, I’m merely responsible for configuration and troubleshooting in a somewhat consultative capacity. What that translates to is I get stuck with all the crap and none of the fun. Ah well, such is the corporate world.
My ultimate goal is to build a small farm (in my basement) that my colleagues and I can use to work on SharePoint 2010 development. As a first step towards that, I’ve decided to create a standalone SP2010 virtual image to gain some practice in installing this beast and see how performance will be when connecting to my network remotely. I have some concern that it will be sluggish as my internet connection is ADSL.
For whatever reason, I didn’t bother to find a nice step-by-step guide this time around. Instead I’m winging it. Already this has been quite interesting. My planned configuration for this dev image is:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
- SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP
- SharePoint 2010 Beta
- Office 2010 Beta
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2
So far I have the OS installed, SharePoint installed but not configured and SQL Server installed. I’ll try to keep a running story going of what happens but with my time being somewhat limited these days, I tend to fire off installs and then go do something else. Since I’m currently configuring AD DS and DNS on the VM and it’s taking some time (which I’m really hoping is normal) I figured I should post an update. Stay tuned for more…
- Dave