To be able to use the ISE for SharePoint, you can configure it to load the SharePoint cmdlets automatically.
Scot Hillier wrote a great article about it. Read “Setting up PowerShell ISE for SharePoint 2010”.
If you only want to use the SharePoint cmdlets once, you can register them with this two lines:
If ((Get-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null ) { Add-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell }
If you like – and use – Hyper-V is out of scope of this post. So let’s assume you have a Hyper-V core installation, as it is free and works great 🙂
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone hyper-visor based virtualization product which includes Live migration.
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3512 (about 1GB)
OK. That was the marketing part.
Many people have great respect for a server, which has no GUI.
SharePoint 2013:
If you want to install the prerequisites for SharePoint 2013, see here: Installing SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites Without an Internet Connection
SharePoint 2010:
Don’t leave if you read “Powershell” and think “Oh my. Why does it take Powershell to do this?”. Powershell is easy to use and a great tool for this task.
This post is about installing all required components that are needed for a SharePoint 2010 installation (Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)).
