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At last I found some time to install the beta’s. Here is how it went. Of course I did not read any manual in advance . Therefor I am hopefull making obvious mistakes.

In advance I promised to use legal software only and not to use the internet browser on the server itself for safety reasons.

The first major steps are (in the correct order):

1. install Virtual PC 2004
2. install W2k3 SP1 and the latest sp’s
3. install / configure AD / DNS 
4. install Application services (including ASP.NET)
5. install .NET Framework 3.0

As expected I ran up through some issues:

• my initial virtual disk was too small (5GB is not enough, 16GB should do it) – you will get into storage problems – okay, I did at least
• WinFX is recently named .NET Framework 3.0. At first I installed the workflow prerequisites as separate installs, which was not sufficient. Just installing the framework package did the job. http://www.netfx3.com/
• the redistributalble package of .NET 3.0 is a bit hidden, but you can find it here,  scroll down to the installation section and click the link. It is the june 2006 CTP download, final release will be open for redistribution in a more easy way, I expect.
• to get the latest sp’s I did connect to the internet, because setting up a seperate WSUS server is just too much for this test, and my host machine too. Not very safe, but the host based firewall was good enough to protect me for the moment.

So far so good. My patience is under pressure, because all the rebooting is taking very long. I must say I wish my host machine had more memory. Running virtual machines is a good reason for a small investment. By now I am sitting and waiting for over 3 hours…but i am ready to start with the MOSS stuff.

end of part 1

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