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Yesterday we downloaded the newest preview version of Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Preview version is available in technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 . I configured a virtual machine with the preview version and following are the steps I followed to configure the SharePoint 2013. Prerequisites Installed OS – Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 SP1 Installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Find more information about the prerequisites from the link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.15).aspx Downloaded SharePoint 2013 installer using link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 Above link will download .img file named SharePointServer_en-us.img. I installed winrar and extracted the content inside the .img file to a separate folder. Installation steps Then I ran the installer and it gave following message. Which said I need to have couple of updates need to install in to the system. Microsoft has provided a tool

In my BizTalk development environment I configured BAM portal some times back and I configured BizTalk several times after that. Today when I tried to access the BAM portal url it wasn’t there. So I checked the BizTalk configuration wizard and it look like follows. I thought that I haven’t configured the BAM portal so I pressed the Apply configuration and applying process went smoothly. But still the portal did configured. Then I found that this was due to a previous configuration I have done to the environment. I followed following steps to correct the issue. Open the command prompt in administrator mode. Go to the location where the bm.exe resides. It usually resides in “ C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009\Tracking” folder. Then run the following command to get the current BAM portal configuration values to a configuration file. bm get-config -FileName:"BAM_Config.xml" This will create a BAM_Config.xml file under the same location where the bm.ex

Yesterday Microsoft has released latest version of SharePoint called Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. I wanted to download the latest version and I found following urls which we can used to download SharePoint Server 2013 Preview. Technet Url - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397 Spjeff’s powershell script - http://www.spjeff.com/2012/07/16/download-sharepoint-2013-preview-with-powershell/ SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345 To start with new SharePoint Server 2013 I found some training materials which published by Microsoft. You can get more information related to those training materials from the following URL. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vesku/archive/2012/07/17/sharepoint-2013-it-pro-and-developer-training-materials-released.aspx Cheers, Chinthaka Wimalaratna