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My new dream Laptop

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precision-m6500?c=us&l=en&s=bsd

PROCESSOR	Intel Core™ i7-920XM Extreme Edition 2.00GHz 8MB
Operating system	Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
Memory	16.0GB, DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM, 4 DIMMS
VIDEO CARD	1.0GB ATI® FirePro® M7740 Graphics
LCD	17" Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD Panel w/ microphone
RAID CONFIGURATION	All Hard Drives, Non-RAID, 1 or 2 drive total configuration
HARD DRIVE	256GB Mobility Solid State Drive
SECOND HARD DRIVE	256GB Mobility Solid State Drive

It's only $8,000....

Now where to get the funding??

Installing SharePoint 2010

I have completed my first full installation of SharePoint 2010!!  It was quite easy once I got to the SharePoint install.  I did all of this on the Windows 2008 R2 server and it worked great!  I have AD, SQL 2008 Enterprise & SharePoint 2010 all running.

 I took plenty of screen shots and I'll posting what I found here soon!  Once I'm done with that document I'm going to start configuring SP and see what I can break :-)   I made sure to do this on a VM so I can make backups before I do anything!! 

Installing SQL 2008 on Windows Server 2008 R2

I was scouring the web looking for why I could not install SQL 2008 on my Win 2008 R2 VM.  I came across the idea of using slipstream and Voila it worked! 

So here you go Slipstream with SQL 2008 & SP1


Steps:

1.Install the prerequisites of SQL 2008:

       MS.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

2.Extract the service pack to a folder on the server using the following command:

        SQLServer2008SP1-KB968369-x64-ENU.exe /x:E:\SP1

3.Run the service pack to install the Setup files

         E:\SP1\x64\setup\1033\sqlsupport.msi

4.Run the Setup.exe file from the SQL 2008 source media by specifying the /PCUSource parameter:

        F:\Setup.exe /PCUSource=E:\SP1


Thanks

SharePoint 2010 Search

Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

I was working on putting everything I knew about SharePoint 2010 search and then I came across this great document that already had everything in one place.  Good job Microsoft!