Jeremy Taylor

If you are looking to have a play around with SharePoint 2010 server with Office Web apps, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 and maybe a Project server 2010 – all with SP1, WITHOUT having to install all of these from scratch, then this is for you…

Microsoft has conveniently pre-configured a virtual machine for testing, demo and evaluation purposes.

What you get pre-installed on the SharePoint 2010 server:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Evaluation Edition, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
4. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 Enterprise Edition
5. Microsoft Office Web Applications SP1
6. Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 SP1
7. Microsoft Project Server 2010 SP1
8. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 SP1
9. Microsoft Visio 2010 SP1
10. Microsoft Project 2010 SP1
11. Microsoft Lync 2010