One of the most heartily cheered announcements at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year was the news that SharePoint 2010 can be installed directly on Window 7 as a development environment.
Now the Beta is out, SharePoint enthusiasts are beginning to get their hands dirty, installing and configuring the new software. In the case of Windows 7, the process is not straightforward as a number of steps have to be carried out by hand and the Install Prerequisites step cannot be run from the install file.
A full list of the steps and the files which need to be pre-installed is available here on MSDN.
In my case, though I had edited the Config.xml file as required, I was still asked for a product key, which fortunately is hard-coded in the file and can therefore be copied and pasted and so the install proceeds. The SharePoint Configuration Wizard failed when I reached Step 8 with a message about being unable to install SQL sample data. I will have to take the time to look into the log files to resolve this problem, but it has not prevented SharePoint 2010 from running. There are a number of issues that have come to the surface however, and these may or may not be related to the configuration failure. For example, the Managed Metadata Service is not available:
The Business Data Connectivity proxy does not start, due to a problem with the configuration of the Load Balancer:
I will no doubt discover more problems as I go along, either real problems in the Beta or difficulties stemming from my install process. In order to compare scenarios, I will carry out an install of the SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Hyper V virtual Server 2008 and see how things look. One thing I have noticed is that unfortunately, the Office Web Apps functionality is a separate install and is currently available only for Server 2008 and not Windows 7.
More install instructions here including Product Keys, should you need them.
If you get the error message above, there is a fix:
Failed to create sample data.
An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56)
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException: Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’.
This error is caused by a known issue with Token Authentication and WCF. A fix has been released and is now available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=166231. The trick seems to be to re-run the SQLServer2008-KB976761-x64 patch before re-launching the SharePoint configuration wizard each time. This worked for me.
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