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Welcome to the 4th and final part of this guide. The first thing you will notice after starting SharePoint Server 2010 setup is that you have 2 steps of the installation. First you start with the installation of SharePoint Server 2010 prerequisites and then move on to installing the product server components. Click on Install [...]

Welcome to the 3rd part of this guide. We have a vanilla cream Windows Server 2008 installation with Active Directory Domain Services and DNS roles installed and configured. The next step is installing SQL Server 2008.
First of all we need to mount the SQL Server image on the virtual machine drive. Using the Hyper-V Virtual [...]

Welcome to the second part of this guide. After creating the virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager, we need to install Windows Server 2008 and configure both Domain Services and DNS roles.
If you remember from the previous post we instructed the virtual machine to load the Windows Server 2008 image. I remind you again that [...]

I’m so excited to get the green light of publishing content about SharePoint Server 2010 Being SharePoint MVPs. we had an early access to the Office 2010 bits, to both Server and Client products but we were asked not to share any of the information, even product screenshots until Microsoft officially launches SharePoint [...]

Back in previous versions of SharePoint (e.g. 2003 release) we had to have a full installation of SharePoint for a specific language, one language per installation, which meant that if we install an Arabic version of SharePoint on a specific server then we can only create Arabic sites on that installation, if we need another [...]

By default SharePoint imports the users from the current domain (domain which the SharePoint server is joined to). But if you work for a big corporate you might need to create more domains in your forest. Most practices will answer that with an Extranet, I would answer with: Import the entire forest
Extranet’s are [...]