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    • Erwin
    • Posted on Wed 16 Jun 2010 07:11 AM

    Well, yes, you probably can.

    You'll need (want) to create separate accounts for the components that make up SharePoint, like for the application pool, for the SQL server, etc.

    So as long as you have full control of your windows hosting (e.g., you have full admin access to the 'box'), then yes you could set up a SharePoint server on that environment. A shared hosting package is not going to work though as they usually share the IIS instances and that's not going to work with SharePoint.

    Depending of what you want to do, a pure demo box could in theory run on the same machine (most developers do that in a virtual machine) that runs SQL Server, an AD server, IIS 6/7 and WSS3.0/SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint 2007/2010 (the latter depending on what you need). If you pick SharePoint 2010 your hosting will have to be a 64-bit platform, e.g. Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.

    There are licensing issues popping up though with public facing SharePoint sites, as you need a CAL for every user hitting the server. Don't ask me for details about that though. I try to focus on development instead and steer clear from that part of SharePoint ;-)

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