Installing a SharePoint 2013 Dev Environment from A to Z

This blog post discusses the installation of a SharePoint Development Environment from A to Z. Over the years, creating one is becoming more and more complex and although this blog post is quite long, we can’t pretend to be complete. Because of this, there’s an accompanying TechNet Wiki page that will be updated and extended at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15289.sharepoint-2013-best-practices-creating-a-development-environment.aspx

Hardware

First of all, you need to think of the hardware you require.