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May 2007 - Posts

Add the Application Server role to the server Today we will, in the series to build a complete VPC, add the Application Server role to the server. By doing this Internet Information Server, ASP.NET and some other services are added that will be needed Read More...
Ok, my feedback is already closed down... and it will not be fixed for Orcas. I really think that's a (small) loss as it is really easy to fix and will make a lot of people happy. Anyway.... There is always Bobby's tool to solve this in the near future. Read More...
Convert your VPC to a Domain Controller Today we will, in the series to build a complete VPC, change the server into an Active Directory server. And in the end we will add one Active Directory user to the AD store for later use. First thing to do is open Read More...
I posted a feedback item in Microsoft Connect (Feedback ID 277761) Please have a look at this, as I think it is a relative small feature request that could be easily solved but was rejected all the time in the VS 2005 cycle. I just hate doing demo's with Read More...
Optimizing your VPC part 2 First let's disable some services that won't be used in the VPC (for now) and can help speeding up your VPC. First service we are going to disable is the Error Reporting Service. As we planned to do demos without failures this Read More...
Optimize Virtual PC I This is the first section about VPC optimization. There is more to come to optimize your VPC to improve so hang in there. VPC Settings reminder Memory Check the amount of memory on your host machine and try to assign at least half Read More...
Install Windows Server 2003 R2 Today section three of my series on how to prepare a SharePoint Server 2007 environment. A 'reminder' project for myself (and all others who would like to do the same thing) to get all the steps documented for later use. Read More...
Create the Virtual Machine With Virtual PC 2007 from your menu you start the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Select the option: Create a virtual machine. Enter the name and location for the new Virtual Machine. Select the operating System: Windows Server Read More...
In my plan to create some documentation to build a SharePoint Server 2007 VPC both with it's own developer environment I was thinking of the following software requirements: Demo machine Orcas Virtual PC 2007 Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2005 with SP2 Read More...
The last weeks I have been very busy (besides my professional activities in my daily job) preparing an environment to do a demo on Workflow. The goal of the demo will be to show the improvements to be expected when using VSTO "Orcas" compared to how you Read More...