Hi Guys
I am trying to determine what is the best approach to setting up a development environment in terms of easy management, deployment and regeneration if something goes wrong. At the moment we have a VM running for each developer. This has MOSS and SQL configured running its own instance using local services accounts and all there dev apps installed. At this stage the VM's are still running fine but I can see its only a matter of time till one breaks or I have to create one. The process to get them back up and running is to basically grab a fresh Server image and reinstall SQL and MOSS and configure which is very time consuming. The reason for this is SQL as we all know does not like to be Syspreped and imaged it just doesn't work using either named or default instances. I understand there is a way of scripting out a whole install of the OS through to SharePoint and configuring but I imagine this would be painful. I would like to get some ideas on how other people are setting up there development environments? Does anyone use a centralised SQL server where they can all develop and deploy to or does this cause issues from the development front? Any thought or info would be much appreciated. Regards, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
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