Sysprep is good, but only gets you so far. MSSQL doesn’t really like to be sysprep’d due to the server name, although you can fix this. Don’t try sysprep’ing SharePoint, it will never forgive you J
For a truly dynamic environment, light touch is the answer. I recently presented at the Adelaide SharePoint User Group ways and means to get environments form single server developer machines to multi cluster environments all with light touch and installation scripts. A method which Iv perfected down to only a couple of hours with the use of Windows Deployment Services. For developer machines, I still believe install everything on a VHD, Windows, MOSS, VS, etc then make a copy and use as needed. New project.. new VM. Its very unlikely that you will be using the same named machine on the same nic at the same time... if you need to do this.. then just add a second loop back adaptor, etc. -DB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Thake Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 4:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released! Take a look at – explains pros and cons of using workstation rather than VM etc. http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Building+a+SharePoint+Development+Environment I’m just putting up some more details on sysprep’ing a virtual machine environment so that when developers come along they’re all sorted. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathan Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released! So you don’t need a separate instance of SharePoint for every developer :P Give them the one and let them all develop on there workstations. At the moment I need to create a Server VHD for every developer. How do you guys manage this? I have found I can’t make a master image as SQL instances don’t like to be renamed which means I basically need to install SQL than install SharePoint and set it all up again and again. Regards, Nathan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Brown Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 3:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released! Why would you install these on XP when WSS/MOSS is a server application? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Williamson Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released! Please tell me you can install it on Xp.... On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Aaron Saikovski <[email protected]> wrote: Not sure if you guys have heard but we have updated and released the Feb 2009 CTP of the VS2008 extensions for WSSV3.0. 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