I've set this up @ http://92five.ambarishrh.com/

Just let me know if anyone wants to test this, PM me your email id and I will add an account for you.

I would jump in just to get the 1Password and snagit, but have both licenses already!

https://buy.parallels.com/329/purl-15mp-apps?x-source=email_pd10&x-campaign=15mp&utm_source=pd10&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=15mp

I need to add some process after discussing with the Project Managers, just to ensure that we don't end up using 100% resources of servers and if something new comes i will end up terminating some to accommodate new ones. Idea is to ensure to have some policies like, x number of hours/days needed to fire up x type of SP farm (single server, multi server- 6 servers, 8 servers etc), If there are new projects coming in, share the infrastructure proposal with us, so we can check if there are rooms for this new setup, if not order new servers to provision etc.

An update on this:

We got the servers and that is also with a SAN. I had some discussions with the dev team head for SP and he would like to have a self provisioning system for VMs. Since this will now be staging, as all dev team members have good 32GB machines to be used as local development. So now my path of research is on going with these 2 servers as independent servers, which has 600GBx2 HDDs, will set it up with RAID1 so on the 600GB usable space on each server, 100GB will be given for OS and the second drive of 500 GB will have master images for self provisioning. Use the SAN shared storage for the VM storage and then boot up instances as and when required for the projects. Use Visual studio online as TFS account which is offsite so its easy for dev team to access from outside. I would like to keep a copy of the TFS online files as a local copy+ may be add Veam backup for the HyperVs for snapshot backup to our other netapp as a backup just in case if something happens to servers. Makes sense?

So some new things happening on this one.

The dev team heads took the initiative and working on the GIT implementation first started with their own testing and soon will be a training session to introduce this to the team.

So the new plan is to use vagrant for deploying dev environment on each dev teams machine, use GIT for revision control, but the question now is how to get a team to work on DB based sites like CMS. How can we get team members to collaborate when there is content involved, I am still looking at options for having revision control for mysql, anyone done this before?

Watching http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/system-center-2012-self-service-vm-provisioning

Got 2 new servers that I need to use as a self provisioning SP environment for testing for our developers.

http://92fiveapp.com looks promising, haven't checked this yet.

@Lakshmana Since you are new to mysql, I would suggest not to jump on projects, but to learn the basics, commands, try adding sample tables, enter data and check it. Once you learn the basics, then you can start working on the projects.

Seems like a good site http://www.mysqltutorial.org/basic-mysql-tutorial.aspx

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/a-basic-mysql-tutorial

That makes sense. For me, I am testing this on my home mac, and I would like to keep the web shield on, but not able to browse when it is on. Opened a ticket on Avast, lets wait for their feedback.

@thecreativeone91 Any specific reasons for disabling the shields?

This is great! Setup an account and installed on one machine, and some of the sites are not opening when the web shield is on. I thought its because my account was not validated through email, did that, but same issue. Its intermittent, anyone faced this?

Just search view all site content using your fav search site and you should see several SP sites site contents

Just to show what happens if you don't lock down your SP
https://www.google.ae/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=view all site content

These videos from Sharegate are really good!
Youtube Video

Nice! My boss wants to have workflows, audit logs, version control etc. Its a long night I guess. Not that Im gonna setup and configure SP in one night, but I was given this task to find the options to move out of our traditional file server

Now reading on SP team sites, best practices to plan on our file server migration

Exactly!

Yeah, I was super confused about this new One Drive and really thought I can get it up and running, get additional space for admin account and migrate all files from our file share and done!

As mentioned on the video, ODFB is just your traditional My Documents replacement with 1TB space on online account and is NOT a file share replacements

Watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVjho5FUmM

This gave me an idea on what to choose, and a clear picture about the decision factor if one should got to ODFB/SharePoint Team Sites, Excellent excellent video!

Just a snapshot from the video

So I should be looking at SP Team sites! Over to next videos & articles about team sites