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  As I announced in my previous blog item Microsoft released the Office 2007 Service Packs (Both for client and server software) December 11 2007. If you go to the Microsoft Download site you can find all installers ...

The deployment machine at Microsoft is working full throttle. We already received the RTM version for Visual Studio 2008, Service Packs for the .NET frameworks and now Microsoft announced to have planned to deploy the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) next week on December 11th 2007. The service packs will be available for both the client as the ...

Configure SQL Server to be used in the VPC Today I add the next section in my series to create a SharePoint VPC. In this blogitem we configure SQLServer to be used in the VPC to make it run smoothly as can be. In the SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration Dialog click the Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections link ...

Add SQLServer to the VPC Today I add the next section in my series to create a SharePoint VPC. In this blogitem we add SQLServer to the VPC to make it run as a database server. Run SQL Server Setup from your installation media. Accept the User License Agreement and click Next to continue Click Install to install the Prerequisites. ...

Add POP Services to the VPC Today I add the next section in my series to create a SharePoint VPC. In this blogitem we add POP services to the VPC to enable mail actions on the server without installing the full blown Exchange Server. First start the ''Manage Your Server'' console. Click Add or remove a role in the Manage Your Server ...

By now it is blogged at various places and the announcement at TechEd 2007 USA hit the internet big. In my opinion the announcement was too important to skip in my own blog. I've seen the first previews for the Open XML Formats SDK in an Office 14 meeting a couple of months ago and that looked really promising and a real improvement for ...

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 if you want to install the SharePoint Server. To start adding the role to the server you ...

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 the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties of your NIC. And change the properties ...

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 service would be one of the useless services<g> Select the Error Reporting Service ...

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 of that amount to the VPC. Network Map the VPC network adapter to use the network ...