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Install Win­dows Server 2008, SQLServer2005 into Vir­tual PC 2007

• My pre­vi­ous applic­a­tion devel­op­ment plat­form exper­i­ence is LAMP, so this Win­dows Server 2008 stuff is going to be fun!
• Install­a­tion to a fresh Vir­tu­alPC took less than 15 minutes.
• Only 6 updates required post install of Win­dows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Added Applic­a­tion Server, Web Server (IIS), File Ser­vices as installed applications
  • FTP added because I under­stand that stuff
• Installed Vir­tu­alPC extensions
• Recon­fig­ur­ated net­work­ing for home network
• Installing SQLServer2005 (as most external hosters are using this revision)
  • Too many ques­tions for a mere mor­tal. Its like recom­pil­ing MySQL!
  • Going for a base level SQLServer as possible
  • Apply SP update to SQLServer2005
• Launch SQLServer Man­age­ment Studio
• All Seems Well
• Time to Backup the VM

Next sub-project: Win­dows Mobile 6 Pro­fes­sional SDK

• Some of the Ima­gine Cup final­ists use the Win­dows Mobile 6 SDK, so grabbing that and eval­u­at­ing their entries
• Installed; have to wait for the .zip files so I can cor­rectly unzip with dir­ect­or­ies. Oops
• (on hold)
• (restar­ted at 8:00pm)
• OK, sub­mis­sions reviewed, includ­ing in-the Mobile emu­lator (w00tage!). Karo has my data

ASP.NET/Database. Exactly how easy is it? Can I do it without RTFM?

• Move VM over to sep­ar­ate machine
• Launched OK!
• Hmm, adding a user, set­ting up non-Windows authen­tic­a­tion (ie: no Act­ive­Dir­ect­ory) requires check­ing on super-special™ check­box. Done and run­ning. Can cre­ate a table, add columns and records.
• I declare a suc­cess­ful day