Install Project Server 2010 on Windows 7

Google is kind of hiding this French guy's webpage (at least in America) so I thought I'd point it out. You can install Project Server 2010 and few other Office App Servers on Windows 7 by making two changes: modify the setup\config.xml and adding a faux ServerManagerCMD.exe to your System32 directory.

To compile your own ServerManagerCMD.exe in C#, use the following code:

 1namespace faux.ServerManagerCmdEmul
 2{
 3    class Program
 4    {
 5        static void Main(string[] args)
 6        {
 7            System.Environment.ExitCode = 1003;
 8        }
 9    }
10}

Alternatively, compile from the sample above—the old download link is no longer available. Using this, I successfully installed Project Server 2010 and I'm running it now. Something odd did happen, however. After installing Project Server 2010 w/SP1, I ran the SharePoint Configuration tool and my SecureStore broke; I kept getting 503 Server Unavailable. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Upon seeing "An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: Could not connect to https://localhost:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc/actas. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." in Event Viewer, I tried a couple things then just decided to rerun the SharePoint Configuration Tool. Annnnd that worked. Time to start Projecting :D