Hello, I am a Information System final year student. May I ask, how do I set up Sharepoint 2013 in order for me to develop the system I mentioned for my final year project as I am new to this platform. I have prepared the setup files for sharepoint server 2013, Windows server 2012 r2 datacenter and visual studio 2012. I need someone who’s willing to guide me on setting up the environment for development
I have a licensed sharepoint 2013 enterprise version provided to me. Regarding the system, I would like to know how can or should I develop im order for me to exhibit my ability to display the sharepoint ability and also some coding skills. Am I compulsory to define entities externally on sql server or just by using lists which the database will be automated in sharepoint? I would like suggestion from experts like you. The time frame for this project will be around 10 weeks, so the scale of this system shouldn’t be too large. Hope to hear from you.
Hi,
Generally you would want the following; AD, SQL Server, at least 1 SharePoint instance. Â Now whilst not recommended for production, for a DEV environment you could put SQL Server + SharePoint on the same machine (physical or virtual machine).
Typically you would install SharePoint foundation for such an environment – as it is likely that you probably don’t have a licensed version of SharePoint. The AD is needed to create various accounts that are needed as part of running various services, connecting to SQL and so on. Â
There is a good tool, SPAutoInstaller on codeplex that will allow you to automate the install of SharePoint. Â It installs and configures various services – take a look at it, it is very helpful.
As you will install Visual Studio on the same machine as well – it will need to have enough RAM and processing power. Â
However, more fundamentally the question is- how do you think you need to develop a Restaurant Management System inside SharePoint? What will your design be? Â Do you need SharePoint, or does it simply need to be .NET MVC or similar framework and using Visual Studio only.
Bit confused as to how far you’ve got to? Can you give us a bit more information explaining what you need?
I installed it as standalone on my personal laptop as this is just a project for me to showcase my development skills. And is it actually necessary for it to have 8gb ram because my device only 4gb.
