It’s in news everywhere. If you are into SharePoint, you would have read that SharePoint has passed the DOD 5015.2 certification.

DOD – is Department of Defence (U.S)

Endorsed by the National Archives and Records Administration, the 5015.2 standard on which the DoD certification is based serves as the benchmark for government and corporate organizations that manage records and documents.

Microsoft utilized the SharePoint platform in meeting the DoD 5015.2 criteria, integrating Exchange Server 2007 and extending SharePoint Server 2007’s records management capabilities with an add-on pack that will be available free to customers later this year.

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DoD 5015.2 is often considered a comprehensive “fitness test” for a records management system. Since the 5015 requirements were satisfied with either out of the box features or features that were built using known SharePoint extensibility points (e.g. SharePoint event handlers, workflows, content types), the project has been a great case study in the strength of the SharePoint platform. Plus, it’s nice to know that a whole class of customers (i.e. U.S. government agencies) can start using MOSS for records management.

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Other enterprise software products that fit the government’s criteria include IBM’s DB2 Records Manager v4.1.2; SAP’s Public Sector Records Management v2.1; EMC’s Records Activator v5.3-MS SharePoint Integration; Interwoven’s RecordsManager v6.0; and CA’s Records Manager v7.5, SR4 (formerly known as MDY FileSurf v7.5, SR4).

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In short, U.S military can adopt Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as their CMS. A fantastic milestone…

Once SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is released, you would want to start playing with it!

This post will detail steps on installing Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS4) on a Windows 7 RTM.

Ideally this would be on laptop and the recommended hardware would be

• x64 capable CPU
• 2 Gb of RAM minimum (4Gb recommended)
• Download the SharePoint.exe file for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4)
• Extract the files from SharePoint.exe with this command line. SharePoint.exe /extract:c:\SharePointFiles  This extracts all of the installation files to your hard drive at C:\SharePointFiles
• Edit the Configuration to Allow Windows Client. You will need to edit one of the installation files to permit the install on Windows 7. Edit C:\SharePointFiles\Files\Setup\config.xml and add this line to the end. Because this is an XML file you must get capitalization correct. <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/> The complete file will now look like this:

<Configuration>
<Package Id="sts">
<Setting Id="SETUPTYPE" Value="CLEAN_INSTALL" />
</Package>
<DATADIR Value="%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Data" />
<Logging Type="verbose" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 Setup *.log" />
<PIDKEY Value="<replace with your key here>" />
<Setting Id="UsingUIInstallMode" Value="1" />
<Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
<Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>
</Configuration>

Before you install and configure Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4) on Windows7 RTM, you will need to configure Windows7 features and install the pre-requisite software, since SharePoint 2010 does not run the pre-requisite installer on Windows7 RTM.

I have written a separate post on how to prepare for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4) installation on Wiindows7 RTM.

Once you have installed the pre-requisite software, you are ready to install and configure Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4)

• Run C:\SharePointFiles\Setup.exe.
• Choose “Install Windows SharePoint Services”. Do not install the software prerequisites.
• Accept the warning about installing on Windows 7.
• Choose the Basic install type.
• On Windows 7 only during the install you will be prompted for a known compatibility issue with SQL Server 2008. Ignore for now.
• Choose Run Program during install.
• After installation and configuration of WSS4.0 is completed, you will need to install the SQL Server 2008 SP1.
• On installation, start the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. Run the Wizard.
• Once the configuration is successful  install SQL Server 2008 SP1. Download Link:  sql8sp1
• Create a new SharePoint site using the SharePoint 4.0 Central Administration under Administrative Tools.