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Applying WIM To VHD

July 7th, 2011

This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Now that you have captured your bootable virtual hard drive that was prepared for SharePoint Installation, you can apply that to another active partition or a virtual hard drive and then install whichever flavour of SharePoint you please! As seen in [...]

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Capturing VHD To WIM

June 28th, 2011

This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Once you have finished with the task of preparing the virtual machine, it’s time to create a Windows Image File (WIM) for re-use at a later stage. Navigate to the folder where you have imagex.exe Run this command

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Preparing Virtual Machine for SharePoint Installation

June 7th, 2011

This is continuation of the blog post series on Reimaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Quick recap: In the earlier post, we have created a vhd and enabled the vhd to be bootable. In this post, I am now logged into the vhd and ready to prepare my virtual machine for installing SharePoint 2010.

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Looking forward to this Service Pack 1!

May 20th, 2011

Yes, it’s coming! If you haven’t heard, read then here is the repeat of the buzz… SharePoint Service Pack 1 is expected to be released in late June, 2011! I am interested in this service pack more then ever, for a reason – self service recovery of site collections and sites! As a site collection [...]

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Reimaging SharePoint VMs on the fly!

May 18th, 2011

Using Imagex to apply an image in the following scenario’s is known and commonly used Apply an image to a vhd Apply an image to an active partition So how about creating a base image and then capture that in a WIM (Windows Image) that you can backup and reuse whenever you want, instead of [...]

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SharePoint 2010: Upgrading and Migrating

July 3rd, 2010

Joel Oleson has authored SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating book and is offering 45 day online access to this book for anyone and everyone! That’s very generous of Joel and I would like to thank him for this! I have just signed up online and now have access to this book.

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SharePoint 2010 Installation

November 17th, 2009

Now that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Office 2010 Beta is available to download from MSDN, TechNet and Connect website, points to note (for self reference) from Jie Li’s Blog post. This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released. This Beta should only be used for evaluation purpose. [...]

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