In order to perform the recipes within this book, a functional installation of SharePoint 2010 Standard is required. SharePoint 2010 is resource intensive on hardware. The recipes in this book have been tested using a laptop with 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 500 gigabyte hard drive. The environment includes Windows 2008 R2, with SharePoint 2010 Enterprise, using SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard. The environment has been created using a native boot virtual hard disk (VHD), which is supported by Windows Server 2008 R2.
The configuration that you choose will most likely use some type of virtualization software such as VMWare or Hyper-V. Also you can choose the native boot solution as I have done while writing this book.
The following are the core software components you will need to perform the recipes in this book:
- Windows Server 2008.
- 64-bit version of SQL Server 2008 Standard with Service Pack 1. The database engine and tools must be installed.
- SharePoint 2010 Enterprise (which comes only in 64-bit).
- Virtualization software such as VMWare or Hyper-V.
- Visual Round Trip Analyzer.
This book does not cover installation and configuration. In order to perform these tasks, refer to an online resource such as Microsoft's Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint.