I’m currently finishing up a project and the last 2 weeks will be creating a prototype environment for MOSS, InfoPath 2007, .NET 3.0 (Windows Communication Foundation specifically) and SQL 2005.  I will be converting 2 forms that I just built in InfoPath 2003 with a Web Service/manage code middle tier and SQL 2005 backend.

Since most of the technology is still in beta I was very fearful on setting up my environment because I was betting on having a lot of problems.  Luckily I was wrong and I was successfully able to create the VPC image on the first try and I just wanted to share the high level steps that I took to get everything running on one machine.

Started out with a base Windows 2003 R2 operating system that was fully patched.  Then installed and performed the following tasks in the order they are listed below.  Granted I made several back-up files during this process to insure that I would good restore points to  use.

·         SQL Server 2005 Standard with client tools

·         Launched SQL 2005 Management Studio to allow it to configure itself

·         Visual Studio 2005 Professional (VB, C# and no Crystal Reports add-on)

·         .Net Framework 3.0 (latest release)

·         Hotfix KB912818 (Windows Server 2003)

·         Office 2007 Professional PLUS Beta 2

·         Activated Office 2007 Professional Beta 2 by launching one of the Office applications

·         Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation

·         Visual Studio 2005 Office Tools for InfoPath 2007

·         Launched Visual Studio 2005 to check to make sure all add-ons got installed

·         Created local account and add it to Power User group (for MOSS and SQL 2005 communication)

·         Added new account to SQL2005 security as “dbcreator” and “securityadmin”

·         Installed MOSS with Advance/Complete options

·         Followed setup instructions for MOSS to complete setup

·         Created a Web Application

·         Created Site Collection

·         Applied Corporate Intranet Template

·         Installed SharePoint Designer

Several times the system advised me to restart and I did so at each occurrence.

I know that this is not much and it might not work for everyone but I thought it could help a few individuals out during are ramp up to all the new version of Microsoft products that deal with MOSS and InfoPath 2007 Beta 2 someway.