Hi Voodoo,
Hope these are helpful in some sort.
How-to-Run-your-own-IPB-Forum-in-your-Local-PC-using-IIS
How-to-Run-your-own-IPB-Forum-in-your-Local-PC-using-Apache
http://www.microsoftusernetwork.com/...dgebase/guides
Cheers,
McoreD
P.S: As for the Portal, there is also a free (Lite) version which is bundled with IBF called IPDynamic Lite. Once you download the IBF package it can be found in \Tools_and_Scripts\ipdynamiclite
From what I have tried,
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