I am very excited to be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Baltimore this weekend: http://www.spsevents.org/city/baltimore/baltimore2014/sessions

My session will mainly be a demo of how you can create a SharePoint 2013 VM in an hour from scratch. As promised, following are the resources that you will need in case you’d like to follow along and start creating your own VM:

1. Software:
   1. Win Server 2012 Std/ Datacenter/ Eval (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx)
   2. SQL Server 2012 with SP1 Std/ Ent/ Eval (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh225126)
   3. SQL Server 2012 KB2793634 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36215)
   4. SharePoint Server 2013 with SP1 Available on VLSC, MSDN and MPN
   5. Classic Shell http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/
   6. SharePoint Server 2013 Pre-requisites. I have uploaded them to the following URL for your convenience: http://1drv.ms/1oZcenU
2. Scripts:
   1. SharePoint 2013 Service Accounts Creator: http://sp2013serviceaccount.codeplex.com/
   2. Add AD User/Group to Local Administrator Group: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Add-AD-UserGroup-to-Local-fe5e9239
   3. SQL Prep for SharePoint: http://www.toddklindt.com/Scripts/SQLtweaks.sql.txt
   4. AutoSPInstaller: http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/
   5. AutoSPSourceBuilder: https://autospsourcebuilder.codeplex.com/
   6. AutoSPInstallerGUI: http://autospinstallergui.codeplex.com/
   7. I have also uploaded other necessary script files to: http://1drv.ms/T8BXzY

Finally, I will be using VMWare Workstation 10.0 to create the VMs during the demo.

Look forward to seeing you there!