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 Windowes 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: namespace faux.ServerManagerCmdEmul { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { System.Environment.ExitCode = 1003; } } }
Or just download the copy I compiled. 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