Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration - Todd Klindt, Shane Young, Steve Caravajal. Wrox. Good admin book, and useful for architecture. Has a lot of best practice points and clearly explains core concepts such as service applications in SP2010 & claims based authentication.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building solutions for Sharepoint 2010 - Sahil Malik. APRESS. Good all round book - especially useful for getting .net developers into SharePoint. There are better reference developer books but it clearly works through major areas that SharePoint developer should know.
Tuesday 14 September 2010
Thursday 9 September 2010
SPAutoinstaller accounts
Change the setup.xml file to use 5 accounts:
7th account should be used for User Profiles called SP-Service-UP. This is a complex issue and needs full review don't try install this blindly hoping it will work.
References
Todd Klindt's Blog
Todd's netcast 49 about installation (specifically install accounts, user profile services and an SP2010 internet version enterprices edition licence bug).
Liam Cleary's list of SharePoint 2010 Service Accounts
- SP-Install - domain account with admin local rights on each WFE also need SQL dbcreator and dbsecurity roles (used to login and install binaries, use this account for add new servers to the farm);
- SP-Farm - domain account no permissions, will be the account to run timer job and other key roles;
- SP-Web-App-Pool - Content Web app account - Domain account only;
- SP-Services - Install all services to use the same domain account, this can be seperate for each services but for easy of setup and mainentance use 1 account. Exception is the User Profiles service, setup seperately using Spence Harbors post as the user domain account needs unique security, and
- SP-Crawl - Used to crawl SP content.
7th account should be used for User Profiles called SP-Service-UP. This is a complex issue and needs full review don't try install this blindly hoping it will work.
References
Todd Klindt's Blog
Todd's netcast 49 about installation (specifically install accounts, user profile services and an SP2010 internet version enterprices edition licence bug).
Liam Cleary's list of SharePoint 2010 Service Accounts
Wednesday 8 September 2010
DisableLoopbackCheck fix
I was listening to Todd Klindt's netcast 50 this morning and he mentioned that DisableLoopbackCheck is not the correct approach for allowing your SharePoint servers to see themselves (needed if crawling). I have been doing this on my server installation and need to review my approach.
MS KB on disabling loopback using either approach. DisableLoopback was introduced by MS to reduce prevention attacks. As SharePoint needs to crawl itself and it's pretty nice to have a local browser for A records/renamed resources, I need to disable loopback however, the method of specify what to disable is definately more preferable.
MS KB on disabling loopback using either approach. DisableLoopback was introduced by MS to reduce prevention attacks. As SharePoint needs to crawl itself and it's pretty nice to have a local browser for A records/renamed resources, I need to disable loopback however, the method of specify what to disable is definately more preferable.
Tuesday 7 September 2010
SP2010 AutoSPInstaller NLB farm install issue - Trial period for this product has expired
Problem: I created a farm using the AutoSPInstaller project. All works perfectly. I then joined a 2nd SharePoint 2010 server using the script however the script was change to not create the services again. All works and I have a 3 server farm including the database server. I then added Windows 2008 R2 network load balancing on the 2 SharePoint 2010 servers. If try access the default Team Site created when I built the 1st server on the new server I get the error "The trial period for this product has expired." Event log doesn't show an error and the ULS shows the following error "Exception thrown while adding control 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.SearchBox' : Thread was being aborted ...".
Hypothesis: The install adds the IIS web site created on my initial farm build on the 2nd SharePoint server. Routing is working and the error occurs when the request is routed to the 2nd SP2010 server. The response is coming from the IIS web server and we know the issue is within the specific web app. In MOSS there were 2 causes for the error message and this is clearly not the SP2 bug so it looks more like the app pool account bug.
Resolution: Create a new Web Application and create a new root Site Collection. The error goes away. OR
Using Powershell change the Managed account then using IIS Manager on each web server go to the approoriate app pool and change the account to the new account.
OR
Use Central Admin to change the service account. CA > Security > Configure service account. You will need to reset IIS on each web server.
Demo on changing app pool managed accounts
Hypothesis: The install adds the IIS web site created on my initial farm build on the 2nd SharePoint server. Routing is working and the error occurs when the request is routed to the 2nd SP2010 server. The response is coming from the IIS web server and we know the issue is within the specific web app. In MOSS there were 2 causes for the error message and this is clearly not the SP2 bug so it looks more like the app pool account bug.
Resolution: Create a new Web Application and create a new root Site Collection. The error goes away. OR
Using Powershell change the Managed account then using IIS Manager on each web server go to the approoriate app pool and change the account to the new account.
OR
Use Central Admin to change the service account. CA > Security > Configure service account. You will need to reset IIS on each web server.
Demo on changing app pool managed accounts
Friday 3 September 2010
SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Useful Scripts
Get Content Types in a Site collection
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(http://ww3.sp.demo.dev/)
$web = $site.rootweb.ContentTypes
ForEach ($id in $web)
{
'"' + $id.Name + $id.Id + '"' Out-File "d:\logfiles\contenttypes.txt" -append
}
Delete a List Instance
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(“http://demo.dev/”)
$web = $site.rootweb
$list = $web.Lists["Orders"]
$list.Delete()
Run all time jobs
$timers=Get-SPTimerJob|{$_.isDisabled -eq $false}
foreach ($timer in $timers) {$timer.RunNow()}
View ULS data for a CorrelationId
PS C:\Users\PaulB> get-splogevent ?{$_.Correlation -eq "fe45a7cd-e91b-4ad3-80dc-50cd2a238c6a"} select Area, Category, Level, EventID, Message Format-List
Run the SharePoint Health Analyzer
$jobs = Get-SPTimerJob | Where {$_.DisplayName -match "Health Analysis Job"}
foreach($job in $jobs) {
Write-Host "Running" . $job.DisplayName
$job.RunNow()
}
Read an XML file:
Not all jobs are fired automatically so you can run all the SP Health Analyzer jobs using this PS cmd. Ensure server can deal with extra load (run out of hours if possible).
Ari Bakker
Turn On-Off Publishing Workflow
John Livingston
PowerShell Basics
Zach Rosenfield's - Farm settings, retrieve solutions, basic SharePoint operations
Gary Lapointe
Blog
Brian Lalancette
AutoSPInstaller - Installation of SP2010
Use Windows PowerShell to Display Service Dependencies
Adam Preston
Blog
Disable Loopback in IE - New-ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa -Name "DisableLoopbackCheck" -Value "1" -PropertyType dword
Todd Klindt
Blog
PowerGui
PowerGui SharePoint reference card
Download PowerGui
Add the SP cmdlets to PS window
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Get Help about PS Cmds
PS> Get-Help Get- SpWebapplication
http://thuansoldier.net/?p=1559
Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Add a local user account
Add an account to AD and add the account to a group.
Apologies if I have ripped script directly. I don't have the source for a lot of the work these help scripts are based. On pls let me know if I need to credit a source.
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(http://ww3.sp.demo.dev/)
$web = $site.rootweb.ContentTypes
ForEach ($id in $web)
{
'"' + $id.Name + $id.Id + '"' Out-File "d:\logfiles\contenttypes.txt" -append
}
Delete a List Instance
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(“http://demo.dev/”)
$web = $site.rootweb
$list = $web.Lists["Orders"]
$list.Delete()
Run all time jobs
$timers=Get-SPTimerJob|{$_.isDisabled -eq $false}
foreach ($timer in $timers) {$timer.RunNow()}
View ULS data for a CorrelationId
PS C:\Users\PaulB> get-splogevent ?{$_.Correlation -eq "fe45a7cd-e91b-4ad3-80dc-50cd2a238c6a"} select Area, Category, Level, EventID, Message Format-List
Run the SharePoint Health Analyzer
$jobs = Get-SPTimerJob | Where {$_.DisplayName -match "Health Analysis Job"}
foreach($job in $jobs) {
Write-Host "Running" . $job.DisplayName
$job.RunNow()
}
Read an XML file:
Ari Bakker
Turn On-Off Publishing Workflow
John Livingston
PowerShell Basics
Zach Rosenfield's - Farm settings, retrieve solutions, basic SharePoint operations
Gary Lapointe
Blog
Brian Lalancette
AutoSPInstaller - Installation of SP2010
Use Windows PowerShell to Display Service Dependencies
Adam Preston
Blog
Disable Loopback in IE - New-ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa -Name "DisableLoopbackCheck" -Value "1" -PropertyType dword
Todd Klindt
Blog
PowerGui
PowerGui SharePoint reference card
Download PowerGui
Add the SP cmdlets to PS window
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Get Help about PS Cmds
PS> Get-Help Get- SpWebapplication
Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Add a local user account
Add an account to AD and add the account to a group.
Apologies if I have ripped script directly. I don't have the source for a lot of the work these help scripts are based. On pls let me know if I need to credit a source.
Wednesday 1 September 2010
SP2010 AutoSPInstaller Prerequisite Install Issues (Codeplex PS project)
Problem: Install SP2010 using the CodePlex PowerShell Installer (AutoSPInstaller) without internet access.
Hypothesis:
Add the following KB to the prerequisiteInstaller folder:
Error: Error. An unknown error occurred installing prerequisites at c:\....\AutoSPInstaller.sp1:388 char:14 ...
Fix: Reboot server and retry.
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Error: The tool was unable to install SQL 2008 R2 Reporting Services SharePoint 2010 add-in. Install process returned (0X643=1603). Applies to the codeplex Powershell scripted install.
Fix: Only info I found suggested a re-run fixes the error. Simply re-running the prerequisite installer did not fix the issue for me. A similar error suggesting that i am using the incorrect version of rsSharepoint.msi relating to the Genva framework (claims) not Reporting Services. I tried manually installing the Reporting services rsSharePoint.msi, it kept failing. I also tried rsSharePoint_x64.msi, also failed.
Next I ran SharePoint install manually after the manual prerequisites was run as Administrator, failed.
Noticed I had 2 rsSharePoint.msi that are of a different size? The file I used on 2 Sept 2010 on my Win 2008 R2 WFE was 36.9MB in size, my other was 39MB. rsSharePoint.msi download
I use the version off the SQL media for getting Reporting Services wirking in the SharePoint mode.
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Error: rsSharePoint.msi wont install
Fix: There are version versions of rsSharePoint.msi, ensure you use the correct 36.9MB file.
I downloaded the correct version from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=192588
Incorrect 39MB Version as of 2 Sept 2010 .
These file have the same name but they are different and using Windows 2008 R2 for my install only the 36.9MB version works.
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Installation Notes for a 3 server NLB SharePoint 2010 farm
Hypothesis:
Add the following KB to the prerequisiteInstaller folder:
- Windows6.0-KB968930-x64.msu (/POWERSHELL)
- Windows6.0-KB976394-x64.msu (/KB976394)
- Windows6.1-KB976462-v2-x64.msu (/KB976462)
- Windows6.0-KB974405-x64.msu (/IDFXR2)
- rsSharePoint.msi (/ReportingServices)
- SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi (/Speech)
- MSSpeech_SP_en-us_tele.msi (/SpeechLPK)
Error: Error. An unknown error occurred installing prerequisites at c:\....\AutoSPInstaller.sp1:388 char:14 ...
Fix: Only info I found suggested a re-run fixes the error. Simply re-running the prerequisite installer did not fix the issue for me. A similar error suggesting that i am using the incorrect version of rsSharepoint.msi relating to the Genva framework (claims) not Reporting Services. I tried manually installing the Reporting services rsSharePoint.msi, it kept failing. I also tried rsSharePoint_x64.msi, also failed.
Next I ran SharePoint install manually after the manual prerequisites was run as Administrator, failed.
Noticed I had 2 rsSharePoint.msi that are of a different size? The file I used on 2 Sept 2010 on my Win 2008 R2 WFE was 36.9MB in size, my other was 39MB. rsSharePoint.msi download
I use the version off the SQL media for getting Reporting Services wirking in the SharePoint mode.
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Error: rsSharePoint.msi wont install
Fix: There are version versions of rsSharePoint.msi, ensure you use the correct 36.9MB file.
I downloaded the correct version from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=192588
Incorrect 39MB Version as of 2 Sept 2010 .
These file have the same name but they are different and using Windows 2008 R2 for my install only the 36.9MB version works.
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Installation Notes for a 3 server NLB SharePoint 2010 farm
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