Even if you are on the code side of things, i.e. a programmer, you are exposed to consider a lot of things that usually belong to the administration and the infrastructure domains because a lot of what you need to use as a develop in SharePoint, relies on things that are configured by administrators.
One first initial example is that SharePoint must run within a domain, this means that you will need to create a server with Active Directory Domain Services, called ADDS. This server is called the domain controller.
Virtually everything else relies on administration related work. If you want to configure search, you will need the administrator to create a domain account for the search service. In my company developers do not have administration rights, so they must ask the administration team's help. If they are busy or not even convinced that you should do what you want to do (even on a test server), then you're out of luck. I wonder where is my negotiation skills?! Anyways, that was so annoying for me that I decided to create my own environment on my machine. Luckily I had 16GB of physical ram and an SSD. Not bad and could be used for testing purposes.
Windows Server VM, SQL Server, Domain Controller with a static IP, internet connection? Etc..
As someone whose administration skills are "me can creates adhoc network" this opens up a whole new world for me. I am learning a lot of curious things.
One first initial example is that SharePoint must run within a domain, this means that you will need to create a server with Active Directory Domain Services, called ADDS. This server is called the domain controller.
Virtually everything else relies on administration related work. If you want to configure search, you will need the administrator to create a domain account for the search service. In my company developers do not have administration rights, so they must ask the administration team's help. If they are busy or not even convinced that you should do what you want to do (even on a test server), then you're out of luck. I wonder where is my negotiation skills?! Anyways, that was so annoying for me that I decided to create my own environment on my machine. Luckily I had 16GB of physical ram and an SSD. Not bad and could be used for testing purposes.
Windows Server VM, SQL Server, Domain Controller with a static IP, internet connection? Etc..
As someone whose administration skills are "me can creates adhoc network" this opens up a whole new world for me. I am learning a lot of curious things.