Many bloggers are posting their SharePoint 2010 Beta installation experiences, and I have collected all the posts that I could find for my reference as I setup my SharePoint 2010 development rig : Jie Li’s SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites Download Links and Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Eric Kraus’ Automated SharePoint 2010 Install with PowerShell Tom Resing’s A SharePoint 2010 Install Experience George Khalil’s Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Windows 2008 R2 Server Alpesh Nakar’s SharePoint 2010 Installation UK SharePoint Team blog’s Installing SharePoint 2010 beta 2 on a single machine Sahil Malik’s SharePoint 2010 Development Environment – Practical Tips Dave McMahon’s SharePoint 2010 – A First Install using Local Accounts SharePoint Team Blog’s Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta Geoff Varosky’s SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Installation and Configuration Visual Tour Travis Nielson’s SP2010: Fixing User Profile Application Service Connection Error René Hézser’s Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 Anthony Grace’s Install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 2008 Kylie Richardson’s Installing Office Web Apps in a Standalone SharePoint 2010 environment Àlex Peláez’s Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 If you are still deciding between Windows Server or Windows 7, then make sure you read OS Environment Comparison for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Evaluation . Also don’t forget to read the Installation notice for the SharePoint Server Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows 7 from the MS SharePoint Team Blog and SharePoint 2010 Beta Release Known Issues . I’ll also point out all the Microsoft links as well: TechNet’s Installation and Deployment Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) MSDN’s Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server TechNet Links Deploy a single server with a built-in database Deploy a single server with SQL server Quick start: Deploy single server in an isolated Hyper-V environment Please comment below if you have know of another Installation walkthrough that I might have missed
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SharePoint 2010 Beta Installation Roundup