Archive for November 6th, 2009
After talking with Satheesh for a while, i have decided that I should install Microsoft Sharepoint and attempt to play around with the technology to familiarize myself with it for future hacks.
Sadly my laptop could not support it. Ouch! The minimal requirement is a IIS 6.0 which means a Windows XP 64bit. Mines a Windows XP 32bit. I prefer this versus the Windows Vista which is currently in the market.
Meanwhile I guess I will be either shopping for a laptop or a desktop.
Am looking at something like the below
- Minimum 2 Ghz
- 4 GB RAM
- 320 GB HDD
Once acquired this should be a good developement environment powerhouse to deal with this mamoth microsoft technology.
Recently we met a problem displaying the Explorer view of share point on the internet Explorer of windows 2008. This is mainly due to the fact that Desktop Experience is not enabled by default on the Windows 2008 server. Once you have enabled it, the Explorer View of SharePoint should work perfectly