C H A P T E R  5

Development Environment Setup

What's In This Chapter?

  • Virtual Environment or Physical Server
  • Choosing Your SharePoint Edition
  • Running SharePoint on Windows 7
  • Virtualization
  • Server Configurations
  • Minimum Requirements for Branding
  • Remote Desktop
  • Required Access Levels
  • Features That Affect Branding
  • List of Required Applications
  • Source Control
  • The 14 Hive

Here you'll learn about the different options, configurations, and tools that you can use to build out your visual design. This chapter does not cover the step-by-step instructions on how to install SharePoint but it will point you in the right direction on what features to enable and what things you can do without. In most cases, you will just need a basic installation or SharePoint ...

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