Saturday, August 7, 2010

SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

It is really cool that we can install the SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 even though the installation is not as smooth as on Windows 2008 servers but following the explanation given in the msdn article, we can get it to work.

I installed the SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64), 99% of the installation completed but it failed in executing the dbwrap.exe with the following message in the log file.

Executing command path: 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\SERVER14\Server Setup Controller\dbwrap.exe', args: 'timeout=2950'

You can find the log file at C:\Users\[User name]\AppData\Local\Temp\SharePoint Server Setup(201008052159032560).log

To get around this, check the and see whether the SharePoint instance of the sql express is installed in your machine, most likely not, then manually, install the SharePoint instance of sql express and run the configuration wizard to complete the configuration.

This solved my problem and finally I have a stand along SharePoint 2010 in my Windows 7.