I have windows 8 professional. and I want to create a virtual machine running windows server 2012 to host sharepoint server 2013 for development purposes. is there any limitations or recommendations?
This isn't really a Stack Overflow question but since I've just done the same thing (Win 8 + Hyper-V/Win2012 + SharePoint 2013), I'll answer.
It is possible but Active Directory domain is required. So you will have to add DC role to the server or provision another VM acting as a domain controller.
Personally I found Windows Server 2012 to perform poorly in my virtual environment and I think I'll be going back to Win2008R2 + SP 2013 for development.
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I built a Windows Forms app with Visual Studio and I am trying to install it on another Windows 7 computer with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Express LocalDB.
After I start the app and try to “login”, I get an error from sqlservr.exe that says:
cannot find entry point, bcryptkeyderivation, bcrypt.dll.
I tried it on another pc with Windows 10 and there were no errors.
Your edit pretty much sums it up.
SQL Server 2017 Express LocalDB isn't supported on Windows 7. The SqlLocalDB.msi installer for me but when I tried to start an instance it would give the "BCryptKeyDerivation could not be located" error. Anecdotally 2016 is supposedly not supported, but it installed and default instances run for me.
Per Microsoft :
Supported Operating System:
Windows 10 , Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows
Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016
Some additional information indicating that you'll need at least Windows 8
BCryptKeyDerivation function
The BCryptKeyDerivation function derives a key without requiring a
secret agreement. It is similar in functionality to BCryptDeriveKey
but does not require a BCRYPT_SECRET_HANDLE value as input.
Minimum supported client
Windows 8 [desktop apps | UWP apps]
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2012 [desktop apps | UWP apps]
I have Hyper-V Server 2012 . Now i want connect to Hyper-V Server from my computer use Windows 7 but not in WorkGroup and connect to Hyper-V Server use ip or domain like this.
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It's possible ?
It is not possible. Windows 7 simply does not know about all things that are available in Windows Server 2012 and beyond.
Refer this Link
I'm looking to test some of the new features in Hyper-V 2012 (v3).
Hyper-V v3 can be downloaded as a "free" version "Hyper-V Server 2012", or it can be purchased as part of Windows Server 2012 Standard or datacenter. However, as usual licensing is unclear.
On the one hand MS talk about their free edition in several (many) sites. On the other hand, when you go to the actual download site it talks about a trial. To me a trial has an expiry date so it makes me nervous.
I could use my Windows Standard 2012 license as part of my Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS), but I'm not sure what I'm actually entitled to.
So my question is:
What are the real differences between the free (trial) download of Hyper-V Server 2012 and the paid-for Windows Server Core 2012 where you have to install with a key.
Does the "trial" version actually expire?
No, Hyper-V Server 2012 doesn't expire.
Hyper-V Server is quite a bit like Server Standard Core with all of the roles except Hyper-V (and other supporting roles and features) removed.
Now, in Server 2012, you can add the full UI back to the Server Core editions, but that's not an option with Hyper-V Server 2012 - it will always just be a command-line. That also means that the typical management UI tools won't run on Hyper-V Server 2012, so you'll need a machine that you can manage it from remotely (the PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper-V actually do work on Hyper-V Server, though).
Hyper-V Server isn't really for people who want to "play around" with Hyper-V - it's really designed for people who want to boost their Hyper-V infrastructure with more physical hosts, and who want to run a very lightweight OS in the root partition, leaving the most resources available for the VMs.
If you just want to get used to Hyper-V or test some things out with it, but you don't have experience with managing Hyper-V remotely already, stick with a full version of Windows Server (or Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise x64, which also have Hyper-V).
I'd like to sideload my Windows Store App to a Windows 8 Enterprise PC. The PC is domain-joined but now I am a little bit stuck.
As it says in the Documentation, the Group Policy on the domain controller must be set:
You must join the device running Windows 8 Enterprise or Windows Server 2012 to an Active Directory domain that has the Allow all trusted applications to install Group Policy setting enabled.
How do I set this Group Policy on my Windows Server 2008? There is no such policy. Does this mean that I need the newest Windows Server 2012 for this? I did set this group policy on the client as well, but anyway I need to activate a developer account. I don't want to do this because a developer account expires after 1 month...
Ok, apparently you can add Windows 8 group policies to a Windows Server 2008.
Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
If you dowloaded and installed this file you then can take the needed files and copy them to %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions. Then you can activate the policy. I did this, but I still had to activate my MS developer account on the Windows 8 Enterprise machine. I don't know how to avoid this.
Is it possible that can I use Sharepoint server as development machine also. My mananger has asked me to use one of the newly purchased server for Sharepoint server as well as sharepoint development.
In future we will do some small development so what type of installation do I need?
Please guide me for the following which one I should install or which one is not required.
Standalone or Farms
VM
SQL Server 2008
VS 2010
SharePoint 2010 can run on a 64-Bit Windows 7, as per instructions from Microsoft.
It does not work on 32 Bit Windows as SharePoint 2010 is 64-Bit only, and it does not work on Vista.
Yes, it is possible to use your SharePoint server as a development machine. I'd suggest using a VM as it allows you to quickly and easily switch between, revert and deploy setups should something go wrong (and things WILL go wrong with SharePoint).
At work, my machine runs Win Server 2008 and I remote into a Hyper-V hosted VM which itself runs Server 2008 - I develop and run SP on that VM. Since I have SP, SQL Server and VS2010 all running on it at the same time, I allocate the VM at least 5.5 GB of memory (and it's still hungry for more).
You can develop for SharePoint 2010 on a Windows 2008 Server x64 or on a Windows 7 64bit. A Windows 7 is of course only recommended for development.
Most developers use a standalone machine for their SharePoint 2010 development. Creating a farm is complex and $$.
Personally I develop in virtual machines. I have on clean vm image that I copy for every new project (client). You need a powerful computer to run these virtual machines. At least 4GB memory and a recent multicore cpu.
You will need Visual Studio 2010, SQL server and ofcourse SharePoint. Office can also be handy but is not needed. SQl server express is included in Visual Studio and the SharePoint install also installs SQl server if needed. Certain Visual Studio versions include an "SQL server developer" license.