Running SharePoint on Windows 7

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• Thanks.. i am planning to install WSS on my Windows 7 machine.. :-) keep up the good work
  

• Thanks for sharing with the community. I will be setting up MOSS and Win 2k8 soon.
  

• This is just awful! I've been fighting all day to try to get programs to work with Windows 7 and I've come to the conclusion that it is pointless.
  
  Maybe Microsoft should stop feverishly shipping shoddy software and focus on making all of their CURRENT products work together! No group should be allowed to ship a product that does not work across all platforms, processors, etc. I have a "top of the line" 64-bit machine running Windows 7 and I can't do diddly squat! Why? Because not all programs support 64-bit and/or Vista (Windows 7). STUPID!!
  

• Thanks
  I did it!!!
  My first try was wrong but after read your post I get it!!
  
  Thanks again
  

• Hey man, you did a nice job, i have installed SharePoint on Windows 7.
  
  Thanks Man.
  

• Hey Dude
  
  Every thing works fine except the deployment in wssvse 1.2
  
  I am using Win 7 RTM 64 bit.
  
  I am getting the following error
  
  Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  
  Any help appreciated.
  

• Hi Balaji! At what moment you get this error? Are you getting this error when deploying solution?
  

• I have been trying to setup WSS 3.0 64 Bit SP2 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit using steps in Bamboo Team Blog entry. The setup completes successfully but when I try to launch ‘SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard’ it crashes and the following error is logged in Event Log.
  
  Fault bucket 733159878, type 5
  Event Name: CLR20r3
  Response: Not available
  Cab Id: 0
  
  Problem signature:
  P1: psconfig.exe
  P2: 12.0.6413.1000
  P3: 4902dc0c
  P4: psconfig
  P5: 12.0.0.0
  P6: 4902dc0c
  P7: 15
  P8: 14
  P9: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
  P10:
  
  Any help/guidance would be highly appreciated.
  

• Configutation qizard creates also log file. You can see there what file was not found. It is highly appreciated if you also provide this information here.
  

• Hi there
  
  I am following exact steps but unable to install WSS on windows 7.
  
  I am getting error "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system".
  
  Could you please help me out.
  

• Machine is of 32 bit architecture.
  

• i get access denied when i try to "assign service to servers"
  please help me on this
  

• Hi,
  I am trying to install Sharepoint on Win 7 Home premium.
  Installation completes without any errors..but the central admin site displays a blank page....have already tried many things given in various forums to solve this problem..Plz help me out
  Have tried..
  Running IE with run as administrator
  Also have changed authentication to basic authentication from IIS
  
  Plz help
  

• Hi Shubham! I am not very sure if Windows 7 Home Premium is the best choice for running something that needs server based operating system.
  
  To get better idea what is going on check out SharePoint logs and look also event viewer to find out if there are any errors that may be helpful.
  

• I have a moss and wss 3.0 installer both still have compatibility problems even when launch from wssforvista folder in the program files.
  
  I am using windows 7 btw.
  
  
  Microsoft really really must get into this problems of compatibility since this is one of the reasons they suck big time. (I know you wanna get rid of the past os but this is too much)
  

• While trying to installWSS 3.0 SP1 on Windows7, I am getting the error message "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system."
  
  Can someone please help me regarding this?
  

• If you start having mysterious errors then you should understand that WSS/MOSS is not supported on Windows desktop versions and you have to find out by yourself how to solve these issues.
  

• ???? I want to install sharepoint server 2007 on Windows 7, not sharepoint services. How EXACTLY do I do that?
  

• Excellent
  
  
  It Worked For Me.
  
  Thanks And Regards.
  P.Shiva Krishna
  India
  

• Hi,
  Is it possible to install SharePoint on Windows 7 Home Basic? Also Can we install IIS here like in Windows XP? If yes, Please let me know how to do that, thanks in advance.
  
  
  Thanks,
  Sarnendu
  

• Hi,
  
  While trying installation; receiveing an error that " this product require windows server 2003 service pack 1 " .. Any Soulutions to over come this erro ??
  

• I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. I think there are limitations on Home editions, so if your install does not succeed there you should use some more powerful version on Windows 7.
  

• thank a ton!! helped a lot....
  

• Thanks for the valuable information. Its really very good that we can run Sharepoint 2007 on Windows 7.
  

• Thanks Gunnar, for the terrific post. I dare say it would be helpful if you would update your post and show us how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7.
  

• Thanks for feedback, Bob! You should be able to install SP2010 on Windows 7 easily. Still be aware of problems related to DCOM settings as some of these you want to change after updates maybe read-only on Windows 7.
  
  Here is official guide how to set up SharePoint 2010 development environment on Windows 7: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx
  

• I tried to install the sharepoint in windows 7 while configuring the database i am getting error. I could not resolve it...:)