Installing Sharepoint 2010

Jan 10, 2013 8:57 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

At this time of writing: Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 11:25pm I actually haven’t got my new laptop yet! Because I was away to overseas for holiday for about a month, the laptop was still held at custom. Anyway, it will be delivered on the coming Tuesday.

Therefore, at the moment I try to install Sharepoint 2010 using my 3GB-RAM laptop running VMWare with 1GB RAM. I want to prove if the 4GB-RAM-at-least requirement is actually valid.

My current old laptop has the following configurations:

– Intel Core Duo T9300 @ 2.50GHZ

– 3GB RAM

– 320GB 5400 RPM hard drive

– 320GB 5400 RPM External hard drive 3.5″ (VM hard disks are on this drive)

I can only dedicate 1GB of RAM to the VM because I’ve already got MOSS 2007, VS 2005, 2008, SQL, other dev tools, etc running on the host machine and they already consume almost 2GB of RAM.

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I started the installation by visiting my best friend: Google.

I then came across the following article:

http://mosshowto.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-sharepoint-2010-windows-2008.html

Based on the article above, below were the steps I took:

1. Installing and configuring Windows Server 2008 x64 on my VMWare virtual machine as per the article.

2. Installing IIS, .NET 3.5, etc through Add/Remove Roles and Features.

3. Running Windows update.

4. Installing SQL Server 2005 x64 then the SP3.

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5. I stop at this point and backup my VM just in case something wrong happens during the SP2010 installation process.

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6. I decided to go down the path of not using AD. I created 2 local accounts: WINSERVER2008\SPT_Admin and WINSERVER2008\SPT_Farm. I added these two accounts as local admin of the VM and to SQL 2005 with the following roles: dbcreator and securityadmin. I then logged in as WINSERVER2008\SPT_Admin to install sP2010.

7. As per the article, I installed the Geneva framework then the Sync framework.

8. I then installed the WCF fix (as per article, too) but it failed saying: The update does not apply to your system. I think it’s because my Win Server 2008 version was not the R2 version. Therefore, I installed the patch for Win Server 2008 SP2 from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx (Determine hardware and software requirements article) instead.

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I’m now ready to install SP2010.

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9. I double-clicked on the executable and install the SP2010 software pre-requisites first.

10. There were some errors I needed to fix. They were all related to missing components. The missing components I encountered were:

– SQL 2008 Native Client (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718&clcid=0x409)

– PowerShell V2 CTP3 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c913aeab-d7b4-4bb1-a958-ee6d7fe307bc)

– MSChart (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=130F7986-BF49-4FE5-9CA8-910AE6EA442C&displaylang=en)

– Filter Pack (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en)

– SQL 2008 Analysis Service ADOMD.NET (http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/0/AD021EF1-9CBC-4D11-AB51-6A65019D4706/SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi)

I then re-ran the pre-requisites install and it all went good.

11. I clicked on the installation link and it installed SP2010 correctly. The beta key can be obtained from http://www.whatsthepointofsharing.com/?p=586. Please note that my VM is still running 1GB of RAM and it has no problem installing SP2010.

Preparing the Environment for SharePoint 2010

Jan 10, 2013 8:57 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

Hi everyone,

I finally have the opportunity to prepare the environment to install SP2010.

Below is my environment configuration:

1. Host machine is running Windows 7 x64 (coz I love Windows 7, I still think that it’s the best operating system MS has ever released thus far).

2. I only install MS Office and VMWare on the host operating system so that my host system is clean.

3. I then create 2 virtual machines: 1 for general development with MOSS 2007, VS2008, etc on and another one for playing around with SP2010.

I will now focus on the one that I’m going to use for trying out SP2010. I install Windows Server 2008 x64 as it’s the default operating system that SP2010 can run on.

Until next time,

Tommy

Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453

Jan 10, 2013 8:54 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

When I tried to run SharePoint User Profile Synchronisation nothing happened. The status was sitting at “Synchronising (0)”.

When I opened Event Viewer it showed:

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The management agent “MOSSAD-XXXXXX” failed on run profile “DS_FULLIMPORT” because of connectivity issues.

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Then when I dig further and run the following application:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe

I got the following error message:

Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453

CAUSE

The service account that is used to do the crawl does not have replicating access. Please refer to this post for solution:

http://sensoft2000-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2010/08/error-replication-access-was-denied.html

SOLUTION

Based on the following post, the resolution is as follows:

http://sensoft2000-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2010/08/error-replication-access-was-denied.html

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Cheers,

Tommy

Clicking on User Profile Service Application and Get Error Message

Jan 10, 2013 6:13 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

I’ve just created a User Profile Service Application but when I tried to go into it (i.e. clicking on it) I get a pop-up error message. In SharePoint log the following error message is logged:

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Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: This User Profile Application’s connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or User Profile Service may not have been started.

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CAUSE

User Profile Synchronisation Service has not been started.

RESOLUTION

Go to Central Admin -> Manage Services on Server then start the User Profile Synchronisation Service. After it’s started the status will sit at “Starting” instead of “Started”.

What you need to do afterwards is to make sure that you go to Monitoring -> Check Job Status. Just keep refreshing that page and after few minutes time a job called ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob will exist and that’s the one that will change the status from “Starting” to “Started”.

Cheers,

Tommy

The file name or path does not exist when check-in/out publishing pages/master page/page layouts

Jan 10, 2013 6:12 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

When I tried to check-in/out publishing pages, master pages and page layouts I get the “The file name or path does not exist” error.

CAUSE

The database server space is full.

RESOLUTION

Add more space or move the content database to a drive that has bigger space.