Bypass SBS 2008 Memory Requirements
For anyone looking to work with SBS 2008 in a dev environment but unable to provision VM’s with 4gb of ram you may be interested in this little reg key..
I see lots of posts around the net asking for ways to bypass the memory requirements but not many with answers. I stumbled upon this one recently which has finally allowed me to get some SBS 2008 dev work done.
When installing SBS 2008 once you are past the initial install and are up to the first page of the configuration if you hit shift+F10 to bring up a command prompt then launch regedit you can edit the following key to allow the install to continue even though your machine doesn’t meet the requirements.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Setup]
“SkipReq”=”RamRequirement”
This may also be useful for those of you running on the bare minimum but with an onboard videocard which is consuming some of the ram pushing your usable ram down.
Hope this helps a few people 
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By David, October 24, 2010 @ 7:12 am
THANKS A BUNCH!!!! This saved my butt today!
By Thomas Knapik, January 5, 2011 @ 3:22 am
Thank you Ross for the solution list above.
My only comment is I didn’t need to edit the key, but add the key. SkipReq”=”RamRequirement”
Awesome
Totally helped me out
Take care
By Chris Dobler, January 31, 2011 @ 9:38 pm
Thank you very much for this. It is very frustrating when working in a development environment that does not have those specifications.
By MB, February 16, 2011 @ 9:44 pm
Is there a way to bypass disk space error?
By Ross, April 10, 2011 @ 9:30 am
Possibly but surely you have enough disk space? That’s a little more critical than memory.
By Mart, April 22, 2011 @ 4:33 am
Will this work on SBS 2011?
By Jason Edwards, June 23, 2011 @ 5:47 am
I would kill if someone could tell me how to bypass hard drive requirements for sbs 2011.
By Jeroen Bijen, August 6, 2011 @ 5:59 am
Try SkipReq”=”DiskSpaceRequirement”