I have started working on sharepoint. Other than playing around with the development sites in office I would also like to learn from home. I dont have MOSS 2007 server or Windows 2003 box to install MOSS.Are there are any public sharepoint sites (free or registered) where I can create and test out sites?
A:
You can install MOSS or WSS (the baseline package) on Vista or Windows 7 but it's officially unsupported, however it works perfectly IMO.
See:
and download a 180-day trial version of WSS 3.0 from:
Additionally, remember that most of the technology in WSS is built on plain ASP.NET 2.0 (things like webparts work pretty much identically)
-Oisin
x0n
2009-09-15 17:52:27
Your second link goes to WSS 3.0 which is free. Should be updated to go to MOSS.
Shiraz Bhaiji
2009-09-15 17:56:21
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A:
Download virtual PC from mirosoft
then run a sharepoint VPC from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb738372.aspx or build your own one.
Chris Jones
2009-09-15 17:54:54
Thanks . I dont want to do this. I have a 3GB RAM machine. Virtual PC makes it slow. It will be nightmare :)
Shoban
2009-09-15 17:59:19
A:
Microsoft provides Virtual Labs which hopefully will suffice. Apart from that the trials and virtual machines that others have mentioned are the only way.
MOSS costs in licensing (esp. for public web sites), server power and database storage. So it's not in many companies interest to provide a free test bed, really only Microsoft's.
Alex Angas
2009-09-16 08:26:49