SharePoint 2013 Support for Windows Server 2012 R2

Bill Baer (Senior Product Marketing Manager – SharePoint) @ Microsoft has mentioned on his Blog that SharePoint 2013 isn’t compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2 currently. Work is in progress to remedy this in the form of the first service pack for SharePoint 2013, but there is no date for this yet. For the latest information check on Bill’s Blog here.

BizTalk 2013 – Installation & Configuration Guide

Hi there,

I found a great set of install notes for BizTalk 2013. Thanks to SANDRO PEREIRA for the guide. Here are the links:

• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Important considerations before set up the server (Part 1)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 2)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Windows Identity Foundation (Part 3)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and configure SMTP Server Feature (Part 4)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Microsoft Office Excel 2013 (Part 5)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Visual Studio 2012 (Part 6)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install SQL Server 2012 (Part 7)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Configure SQL Server Database Mail feature (Part 8)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure BizTalk Server 2013 (Part 9)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Configure SQL Server Network Configuration protocols (Part 10)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Validate Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts (Part 11)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Installing BizTalk Adapter Pack (Part 12)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure Microsoft UDDI Services (Part 13)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure the Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit (Part 14)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Configure BizTalk Server SQL Jobs (Part 15)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Configure BizTalk Server Windows Services (Part 16)

SharePoint 2013 Installed on a Single VM

SharePoint 2013 Installed on a Single VM

A great link to a get around having a Domain controller and SQL Server VM installed on a host machine to install SharePoint 2013.