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4/19/2009

Building a Demo VM in a Highly Scripted Way

Currently, I am setting up a single server MOSS virtual machine which will host a demo site that will be used by part of Magenic’s sales force. The demo site will represent a repeatable service offering. Additionally, another project team in my office is working on a MOSS and Commerce Server solution that will have multiple concurrent MOSS developers. We are planning to give each developer their own single server farm. I believe the best way to do this is through a scripted install. Because of these two projects, I have been building out a MOSS VM using command line scripts and answer files as much as I could.

To this end, I have created an answer file for DCPROMO, a SQL Server 2008 answer file. a batch file that runs PSCONFIG, and batch files that run several STSADM commands. I also wrote a PowerShell script to create users, configure them, and put them in the right OrganizationalUnit. Plus I am documenting almost everything.

I’ll do my best to share these later in the week. In the mean time, I wanted to cite a few resources: Alpesh Nakars on having good examples of these: http://www.alpesh.nakars.com/blog/stsadm-command-line

Also http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/powershell-tutorial-active-directory/ This one showed me how to get the user to show up in the right OU.

That’s enough for the moment.

Michael

Posted at 12:09 AM by Michael Blumenthal | Category: MOSS 2007 | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (3)

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Re: Building a Demo VM in a Highly Scripted Way

Hi Michael,
Thanks for the link back.

http://www.alpesh.nakars.com/blog | http://www.justsharepoint.com

at 4/19/2009 8:43 PM

Building a Demo VM in a Highly Scripted Way

HI Michael,
I am a SharePoint newbie. Currently, I am administering a single MOSS farm on a Hyper-v vm. The Hyper-V is running on a Windows 2008 server core (I am a vm advocate!). You said "We are planning to give each developer their own single server farm." Will each of these single farms be controlled by a single MOSS Central Administration? I am interested in your wizardy!!
Though I am not a programmer or scripting guy, I am willing to learn from your ideas. Do you mind adding me to your email list?

Thanks in advance.

Nee Okai

at 4/21/2009 7:29 AM

Re: Nee Okai

No. Since each developer would have their own farm, each developer would have their own Central Admin. There is one Central Admin per farm.

Michael Blumenthal at 4/21/2009 11:24 AM

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