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
Hi,
Generally you would want the following; AD, SQL Server, at least 1 SharePoint instance. 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.
There is a good tool, SPAutoInstaller on codeplex that will allow you to automate the install of SharePoint. 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.
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? Do you need SharePoint, or does it simply need to be .NET MVC or similar framework and using Visual Studio only.
