Developer Machine Setup

There are periods of your life as a developer either at home of at work where you go through a cycle of re-build your machine (and other) a seemingly high number of times and the real grind is getting your tools setup and installed each time.

The Windows 10 Development environment is a good place to start if you need a VM running Visual Studio but what about all of your other sweet dev tools?

The applications listed below are what I use everyday as a Sitecore developer you will want to update your to suite your situation.

Here is the process.

Enable PowerShell Scripts

1. Open Powershell as an Administrator and run the following script

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass

Install PowerShell Modules & Windows Components

1. Download powershell-iis-and-default-modules.ps1 file to c:\temp https://gist.github.com/mawiseman/cab07877576d5122ab3d7690266110b5
2. Open Powershell as an Administrator and run the following script

cd c:\temp
.\powershell-iis-and-default-modules.ps1

Install Applications via Chocolatey

1. Install Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/install
2. Download chocolatey-packages.config file to c:\temp https://gist.github.com/mawiseman/54fef1543f6ac8c06a16a49a15d80b36
3. Open Powershell as an Administrator and isntall the applications via Chocolatey

cd c:\temp
choco install chocolatey-packages.config -y

Install SQL Server 2016

1. Download SQL Server from https://my.visualstudio.com
2. Mount the ISO
3. Download SQLServer2016ConfigurationFile.ini file to c:\temp https://gist.github.com/mawiseman/e6e4143ddafa55cd9d67253af31e9937
4. Open Powershell as an Administrator and run the following script
5. Download and Install SQL Server Management Studio

$saPassword = "YOUR-UNIQUE-PASSWORD"

.\setup.exe /CONFIGURATIONFILE=C:\temp\SQLServer2016ConfigurationFile.ini /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=$([System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name) /SAPWD=$saPassword

Install Node Modules

1. Open Powershell run the following script

npm install -g windows-build-tools
npm install -g gulp
npm install -g gulp-cli
npm install -g bower