SharePoint 2010 + SP Designer 2010 on Windows 7
There’s been a ton of blog postings on how to get this whole ‘SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7’ scenario working…most of which will eventually get you up & running, but I thought I’d provide a short & sweet, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Release Candidate summary of what you need to do.
My System: Windows 7 x64 running on a Lenovo W500 w/8GB RAM
NOTE: this install guide is ONLY for x64 versions of Windows 7…so I don’t reference what you need to do this on Windows 2008 or Windows Vista. Bing search if you need those…this (in my humble opinion) is the default install most developers will be using for a SharePoint sandbox environment
- Install IIS properly on your Windows 7 machine
- Start, Search, Windows Features, go to the IIS section and ensure every single one of the settings below is correct…reboot
NOTE: if you’d like a more type-centric way of doing this, from an Administrative-Command Line, type the following, then reboot
start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI
- Install SharePoint Foundation 2010 pre-requisites
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166490)
- Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165962).
- Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7 FIX: A hotfix that provides a method to support the token authentication without transport security or message encryption in WCF is available for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=166231).
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131037)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition Service Pack 1 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166503)
- Microsoft "Geneva" Framework (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=165752)
- Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141237\&clcid=0x409)
- Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166504)
- Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141512)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718\&clcid=0x409)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130651)
- Microsoft Silverlight 3 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166506)
- ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=79d7f6f8-d6e9-4b8c-8640-17f89452148e\&displaylang=en) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Install SharePoint 2010 Designer
- Grab the latest Beta/Release Candidate of your choosing (https://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/related-technologies/Pages/SharePoint-Designer-2010.aspx)
- Install Office 2010 latest version
- Grab the Beta/Release Candidate of your choosing (https://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx)
- Run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard to complete the setup of SharePoint 2010 Foundation edition on your Windows 7 workstation