A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64)

Dahnesh's Blog - Setting up SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

“Some of you may want to install SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2010 Foundation on Windows 7 for development and testing purposes. I have also managed to do so and thought I would quickly share some of the key steps for this setup.

Firstly, the article I referred to for this setup is here and here are the steps I followed:

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I thought this short and very perspective guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Win7 great and given the SharePoint goodness in VS2010 something I wanted to capture for future reference. or need.

 

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