Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

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Demoing SharePoint??? how do you do it? - Click & Solve — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:52:55 GMT

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re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Dan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:39:02 GMT

a virtual machine I built myself.

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Kris — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:45:30 GMT

I have used the VMs in the past. It is really easy to demo with the VPC.

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

ramg — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:08:58 GMT

I'm running windows server 2008 64bit with 8GB RAM on my laptop, have a single server instance running on my laptop which I use for development, also I built medium server farm (hyper-v) for testing production like scenarios ex DR & HA

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Flamer — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:09:06 GMT

We had been using our Intranet to show off SharePoint, but have since converted to the Demo Showcase VM provided by MS (with some minor tweaks and add-ons from codeplex).

It was much better having a VM that had some content and branding on it to show off some of the cooler things you can do with SP.

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Ari — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:36:30 GMT

At the moment I'm using a customised version of the base Demo Showcase 2008 VM. I've added Office apps so everything is on the same box.

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Rob Wilson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:48:02 GMT

I use all three. For user group presentations I like to use our user group's site that is hosted on a public server so the members can refer back to it. When demoing for clients I prefer to use a MOSS installation at our office if I have web access. I use a virtual machine as a last resort...and I build my own.

*Ideally* I would like to see a SharePoint test server built into SPD and/or VS...that would make development and testing much easier also. Thanks for asking!

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Ivan Wilson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:26:49 GMT

I run Windows 2008 x64 as my only Operating System. I have MOSS 2007 installed directly on the laptop. I also run Hyper-V images, but find it easier to use the host image.

I have put together a Powershell script to start and stop the various MOSS and SQL services so that I can free up some resources on my laptop when I need to.

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Sharee English — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:20:11 GMT

I used to use a MS image, but it expired in Oct. 2008. I have since built my own image. I documented the process both in a video and written format and posted it on my blog at http://www.shareesblog.com/?p=248

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

michhes — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:51:15 GMT

Everything except dual boot (that option's just annoying). On the virtual machine side, external presentations are usually done on a MS VM on VPC 2007 while internal presentations are on a custom-built dev VM on VPC 2007. Like Sharee, I've also posted a Server 2008 small farm step-by-step on my blog: http://blog.mediawhole.com/2008/09/how-to-create-stand-alone-small-farm.html

The lack of 64-bit guest support on the VPC platform will soon be forcing us to VMware--installing Server 2008 and hyper-v is not currently an option. Will Windows 7 give us something like this built in??

--michhes

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Mark Orange — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:43:25 GMT

I only use VMs and I use a mix of Microsoft built VMs and our own VMs. The Microsoft VMs are very useful because they are populated with content and users, include a good breadth of general SharePoint areas that can be demonstrated with little investment and I use them most heavily early in a product release cycle. Over time however we build up our own with more specific demos, particular covering the WCM internet space and if we're demonstrating development activities.

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SpittingCAML — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:31:59 GMT

I use a mixture of VMWare server VMs running on one of our high performance servers when I an doing internal demos, or I use VMware workstation on my laptop with a home brew VM when I am off site.

I've not been using VPC for some years because of the flexibility VMware provides.

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Raymond Mitchell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:45:44 GMT

It depends on what I need to show but for most of my demos I'm able to use my Vista laptop that is running Search Server Express (thanks to bamboo solutions).

re: Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?

Alexey — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:55:39 GMT

Hi, Chris,

I use the Virtual PC available via mssharepointdeveloper.com to demo on my laptop and a HyperV VM on the premise. Some demos are simple enough to be shown off right on the Intranet portal.

For development I build my own VM with a localized setup (1049).

Thanks for blogging, speaking, showing and working for us.