I'm looking for a way where i want to install MOSS 2007 server in my machine. Machine Configuration is : Windows XP/1GB Ram/540GB HDD/1.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 bit processor the way i found was: installing virtual pc in windows xp, from virtual pc i will install windows 2008R2 Hyper V and finally in windows 2008 virtual machine i will install MOSS 2007 SP2. can you please suggest me on this also the required files and hardwares for making this installation successful ones. Nagaraj

Hi there. Well, this will not work. Sure you can install Virtual PC and install a guest OS with Windows Server 2003/2008 and install MOSS on that. Note that you can't install Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest, since that is 64bit only and Virtual PC only supports 32bit. But you can still install a 32bit Windows Server 2003 or 32bit Windows Server 2008 for you MOSS. If you want to run Windows Server 2008 R2, you will have to use either a commerical virtualizing product like VmWare Workstation, or the free VirtualBox from Sun/Oracle. If you go that route, I see no reason to install Hyper-V as you suggested, it will not work either since Hyper-V must be installed on a physical box and not in a virtual environent. The next issue is your amount of RAM for the host. 1GB of RAM is way to low for running this kind of setup. You should really max out your memory configuration for the host, aim for at least 4GB. Which leads into the issue that Windows XP (assuming you are running 32bit) only can use some ~3.5GB of that. But still it's better than 1GB. Start with allocating 2GB to your guest os. Hope this helps. Regards, MagnusMy blog: InsomniacGeek.com

You can download a VHD http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&displaylang=en The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability. This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you a trial software will automatically expire after 30 days. This is a preconfigured virtual machine set contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, or the R2 versions of these products is required to use this virtual machine. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details. The method described above follows the instructions you provided but there is a better way. The following link contains the following so you do not need Hyper-v http://sharepointsolutions.com/SharePoint-Add-ons/Products/Pages/Asset.aspx?AI=8 All-in-one VHD - Virtual PC Image /w All SharePoint Solutions' software pre-installed! No assembly required! This virtual hard-drive image is pre-installed with: SharePoint Solutions Extranet Collaboration Manager SharePoint Solutions Site Provisioning Assistant SharePoint Solutions Alert Manager 2007 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2003 R2 ENTERPRISE EDITION MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 ENTERPRISE EDITION SERVICE PACK 1 FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 MICROSOFT OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 2007 MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SHAREPOINT SERVICES 3.0 MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT SERVER 2007 MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 2.0 MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 3.0 The VHD evaluation images are designed to last for 30 days from the date the virtual machine is first run. After 30 days the image and all the software on the image will expire. http://sharepointsolutions.com/SharePoint-Add-ons/Products/Pages/Asset.aspx?AI=8 -Ivan Ivan Sanders My LinkedIn Profile, My Blog, @iasanders.

The VHD is a good idea but that too won't work in Virtual PC. In other words to be able to use it, the OP needs to first install a suitable Virtual Machine system (Ivan's first message) and then install the VHD in that. The vhd means that the OS and the (Trial) MOSS 2007 don't need to be installed manually but doesn't unfortunately mean the requirements for a suitable VM system for them are no longer valid.2010 Books: SPF 2010; SPS 2010; SPD 2010; InfoPath 2010; Workflow etc. 2007 Books: WSS 3.0; MOSS 2007; SPD 2007; InfoPath 2007; PerformancePoint; SSRS; Workflow Both lists also include books in French; German; Spanish with even more languages in the 2007 list.

MIkes right I didnt mention The VHD contained in the archive is for Virtual PC/Virtual Server so you dont have to install a VM to run Hyper-v then add the VHDs to Hyper-v my apologies... I was excited about finding an alternative you should probably get, scramble find more memory though.. -IvanIvan Sanders My LinkedIn Profile, My Blog, @iasanders.