His question was "why?" everyone knows the advice, but apart from a bug in RC1 VM (which was years ago now) I've never heard a reason.
So it's handy to have someone from ms in this thread, as you could likely answer: -what goes wrong and more importantly -why On Friday, February 5, 2010, Aaron Saikovski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > What I normally do in this situation is to create a domain control in a VM > and my SharePoint dev in another. I like to keep them separate as this kind > of simulates a real world setup. > I allocate say 1GB ram for the DC and about 4-6GB ram for my sharepoint VM. > > My advice is to keep them separate. > > Hope that this helps > > Regards, > Aaron Saikovski > > Aaron Saikovski | Senior Consultant | Microsoft Australia > Tel: +61 2 8817 9280 | Mob: +61 410 480 971 | Fax: +61 2 9870 2499 | Email: > [email protected] | Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronsaikovski > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Joseph Clark > Sent: Friday, 5 February 2010 3:40 PM > To: ozMOSS > Subject: The SharePoint + Domain Controller situation > > Hi List! > > As a fairly new SharePoint developer, I've seen anecdotal references all over > the Internet about how installing SharePoint and the Domain Controller server > role on the same server is a one-way ticket to disaster town. > > What I am yet to discover is *why* this is bad? What problems does it cause? > > I'm trying to setup some nice clean virtual machine images for my development > environment and was wondering what's the ideal setup? > Should I run my dev environment SharePoint server just using local accounts? > Is it OK to have the DC on the same computer in a controlled development > environment? Should I run an additional virtual machine to act as the domain > controller? > > All advice/suggestions appreciated :-) > > Cheers, > Joe. > > > -- > Register now for Atlassian Summit 2010, June 9-11 http://summit.atlassian.com > > Joseph Clark > .NET Developer > > Atlassian > +61 422 812 044 mobile > 173-185 Sussex St. > Sydney, NSW > Australia > > > _______________________________________________ > ozmoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > > _______________________________________________ > ozmoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss
