August 15th: Developers will be able to download the final version of Windows 8 via your MSDN subscriptions.
August 15th: IT professionals testing Windows 8 in organizations will be able to access the final version of Windows 8 through your TechNet subscriptions.
August 16th: Customers with existing Microsoft Software Assurance for Windows will be able to download Windows 8 Enterprise edition through the Volume License Service Center (VLSC), allowing you to test, pilot and begin adopting Windows 8 Enterprise within your organization.
August 16th: Microsoft Partner Network members will have access to Windows 8.
August 20th: Microsoft Action Pack Providers (MAPS) receive access to Windows 8.
September 1st: Volume License customers without Software Assurance will be able to purchase Windows 8 through Microsoft Volume License Resellers.
So I try to install SharePoint prerequisites but it fails and give me the following error
There was an error during installation.
The tool was unable to install Application Server Role. Web Server (IIS) Role. configuration error, installation skipped
This happen for many reason, for example most of the prerequeist not supported for Windows Server 2012 because some of them become part of the Windows Server 2012 and some of them become par of the MS SQL 2012 as we will see later in this post.
So I try to install SharePoint and skip the prerequiest and I found the following errors
This product requires the windows identity foundation This product requires Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0(x64) This product requires Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client. Install SQL Server 2008 Native Client and re-run setup. Windows Features or Role Service required by this product are not enabled. For a complete list, refer to the link below. This product requires Microsoft Filter pack 2.0 This product requires internet information services (IIS) 7.0 or higher, with ASP >NET v2.0 set to ‘Allow’ in the list of IIS Web Server Extensions. This product requires the IIS 6 Management Compatibility component to install This product requires Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed.
Configure some Windows 2012 Roles and Features manually
We will choose 2 Roles and 1 feature and for each Role we will choose it’s features and so the feature, we will choose it’s components
Web IIS (Role)
Application Server (Role)
Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 (Feature)
Return specific Environment.Exit code
We will just give installation what it need, it just check for exist code 1003 so we will give this to SharePoint installation app, this was provided by Steve, well done Steve, its really helpful, so we will download the exe or just compile the source and put it in System32 Folder
Run SharePoint 2010 prerequiest and install them from SharePoint 2010 Server SP1 (Only SharePoint 2010 SP1 support MS SQL Server2012)
Install SharePoint 2010 Server SP1
Set the default app pool to v 2.0 instead of 4.0 because this what SharePoint 2010 needs
If we didn’t set this the configuration will fail as the following
If this happen we will need to the change the app pool for crated pools related to SharePoint, after SharePoint configuration failed
Start SharePoint CA
Configure SharePoint 2010
provision the installation and configuration, just open CA
It’s working now on Windows 8 RTM no need for any third party application.
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I was stacked in how to open chm file on Windows 8, I read many posts about some registery option and disable UAC but nothing work
So I start search for winhelp for Windows 8, but I couldn’t found it too
This maybe because I am working on Windows 8 CP and the other HDD has Windows 8 RP but it’s not stable on my Laptop (Dell XPS) specially with touch screen driver that still a beta with some error of course, so the following solution is just a temp for now, by the way if you want to have a look on Windows 8 on touch screen, see the this post
So finally I search for Ubuntu chm file so I found this wonderful application that makes me able to view chm file
From little while I talked about how Visual Studio 2012 come with different strategy and now we have TFSTeam Foundation Server Express and how it goinong to be really helpful as a free program for small teams.
After the Team Foundation Server Express 2012 RC lunch, I just want to try it and share this with the community as I always do, so in this video I will install TFS (Team Foundation Server Express 2012 RC ) on Windows 8 Release Preview, I will also install TFS Build Service 2012 RC on the same machine (Windows 8 Release Preview) and finally I will install Team Explorer 2012 RC and create a new team project so we can examine Team Web Access and how to see that it doesn’t support Backlog and Board feature, and of-course no SharePoint.
I just want to share with you, Windows 8 Release Preview installation and how it looks like, I will also show you at the final part of the video the Metro Desktop in a touch screen on my beautiful Dell Laptop XPSLaptop
If you install Windows 8 Release Preview from the exe the key will be entered automaticly but if you use the ISO or put it on a media like USB or DVD it will require a product key, so you can use the following Windows 8 Release Preview Key
On April 17, Microsoft officials said during the opening keynote of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2012 that the final name of Windows Server 8 will be “Windows Server 2012.”
I believe that, this year we have a lot of programs that will release by Microsoft that I think it will cover the rest of the current decade, so brace yourself!
Windows server 2012 start screen, it’s really awesome!
Fore more information about this news see the following link
It’s coming to Egypt a day earlier this May 14th and 15th – so mark your calendars for two days of non-stop developer interaction and a chance to win some great prizes!
Designed especially with software developers in mind, the conference promises to be a unique opportunity to get closer to the technical audience and get up to speed on the latest Microsoft technologies.
Agenda
What to do before you come?
You have the option of coming prepared with your pre-built Windows 8 applications or you can develop your own during the two days. Make sure you bring your laptop and download the below so your software is up to date.
If you install the Windows 8 Consumer Preview from the exe the key will be entered automaticly but if you use the ISO or put it on a media like USB or DVD it will require a product key, so you can use the following Windows 8 Consumer Preview Key
