SharePoint 2010 Beta Demo Virtual Machine – Available Now

Microsoft has released a demo virtual machine consisting of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Beta. The download titled “2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)” is a 2 part Hyper-V based virtual machines. Note that you will need to allocate at least 6GB to the primary SP2010 VM to be able to demo and work on this. The optimal recommendations are listed on the download page. http://tinyurl.com/IWSP2010

Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard In order to run this demo you will need the following: - Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled. - Drive Formatting: NTFS - Processor: Intel VT or AMD-V capable - RAM: 8 GB or more recommended - Hard disk space required for install: 50 GB.

For my demo setup I use a HP 8530W EliteBook Pro Workstation with 8GB RAM, QuadCore Extreme processor, 7200RPM 320GB main HDD and a external eSATA attached Drive for VM’s. For best performance try and get an SSD drive.