Installing SharePoint 2010 on Window 7 64-bit

With the release of SharePoint 2010 the good news is that, for development one can develop SharePoint solutions on a Client OS like Windows 7 (64-bit) instead of using a Server OS like Windows Server 2008 (64-bit). With this corporations can save on licensing costs by tapping in existing investments made for client operating systems like Windows 7 or Windows Vista. But this was not the case with SharePoint 2007, which required a server OS like Windows Server 2003 to get it running even for development, though there were some hacks to get MOSS running on a client OS like vista, it wasn't adopted by the development community at large, because of fear of issues\conflicts which might crop up at a later time.

Hearing this I tried to get SP 2010 installed on to my Windows 7 which failed in the first step itself, so if you are among the many developers or System Admin's who received the following error "Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): This product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or above. Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup." while trying to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (64-bit), then here's an elegant solution by Sandrino Di Mattia, who had posted an excellent article on how to tide over this error.


The reason behind this error is due to the fact that, SharePoint 2010 on production environments is always supposed to be run on Windows Server 2008 (64-bit).