SharePoint 2010 Test Environment
I’ve just returned from the SharePoint Evolution conference held at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in Westminster, London. Although SharePoint 2010 has now gone RTM it is not available via MSDN or TechNet and I have itchy fingers (rumour has it the day for release is going to be Tuesday 27th April). However, it does give me the chance to create my test environment for SharePoint. I’m going to need the following servers:
- Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL Server 2008 (it’ll probably be SQL 2008 R2 as this also went RTM this week)
- Windows 2008 R2 running IIS as a web frontend server
- Windows 2008 R2 to run Index service for SharePoint
It’ll be a bit of a pain creating these servers manually so I want to do it automatically. Microsoft Windows 2008 has a role called Windows Deployment Services, or WDS, which for anyone that has been an ITPro for a while is the new name for RIS (Remote Installation Service).
The next post in my SharePoint 2010 series will covering the setup, configuration and use of WDS to create the new environment. If you want a more detailed and generic approach to WDS they have a look at TechNet.
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