Building your SharePoint 2013 development machine on Windows Server 2012 – Part 1 – Introduction.

UPDATE: SharePoint 2016 development machine

Over the next number of blogs I’m going to build up a series of blog post that will show you how to create a SharePoint 2013 development machine on a Windows Server 2012. Hopefully I will do this quite quickly, however with a small child that never wants to go to sleep, a day job and majority of a house to decorate, so I can’t see it happening as quickly as you or I will like.

To be honest some of these posts deserve credit to Andrew Connell for creating SharePoint 2013 Setup Guide for Developers using Windows Server 2008. I have been using his pdf as a guide to how to do mine.

• Part 1 – Introduction
• Part 2 – Setting up and configuring Host Computer using Hyper V and a Wireless Network
• Part 3 – Building a base disk to use for differencing disks.
  • Installing Windows Server 2012
  • Installing SQL 2012
  • Installing Office 2013
  • Installing Visual Studio
  • Setting up the Menu
  • Syspreping
• Part 4 – Installing Active Directory
• Part 5 – Configuring SQL 2012 ready for SharePoint 2013
• Part 6 – Installing SharePoint 2013
• Part 7 – Configuring Hosting Apps
• Part 8 – Configuring My Sites and User Profiles
• Part 9 – Configuring Workflow
• Part 10 – Setting up Visual Studio