Installing SharePoint 2010 on a dev machine with an external database

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Published on 2010-05-25T11:55:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 12:01 UTC
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I've been following Microsoft's guide for installing a dev environment on Windows 7:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx

In order for it to not run like a dog I've created a SQL Server 2008 instance on our database server specifically for this dev machine. The article does mention that you might be wanting to use an external database in regard to making sure the database cumulative update is installed. It doesn't make any other mention of configuring it to use a external database. I was hoping that the configuration wizard would then prompt about which database to use but annoyingly it just set-up the configuration database locally.

How do I go about installing SharePoint on a dev environment with an external database, and will I need to reformat this machine and do it all again?

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