I tried to create my own virtual machine to test and play with SharePoint 2010 but I was unsuccessful every time due to some errors and finally it became frustrating and I gave up.

Now, Microsoft has released the Virtual Images for it so you don’t need to worry about installation, pre-requisites, etc. fun stuff.

It’s available here. Enjoy!

3 Comments

• Anon said Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:12:43 PM

  Really?!? You need to Win 2008 R2 with 8GB just to test this? Really? How do they expect the average small office to test this? I assume they will have a lower requirement soon.

• rachitp said Friday, January 29, 2010 10:34:59 PM

  @anon: It requires Win2008 R2 (x64) with 8GB RAM because there're a lot of things are installed in this VHD. Also, having SQL server on this, it'll use a lot of RAM. There're many services are running on a single instance.

• Raghavendra said Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:13:33 PM

  The link is broken. Can you update it?