Monday 4 July 2011
Friday 1 July 2011
SP1 and SP2010 June 2011 CU
Overview: There has been a lot of chatter on twitter about SP1. I incorrectly installed SP1 on a dev machine and after reading "So what the Fuss? - Service Pack 1 and June 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010" from Spencer Harbar I thought I'd summerise the correct approach as detailed in Spencer's article.
Notes:
As always test updates on your DTAP environment pre release onto production.
More Info:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/06/29/sharepoint-2010-sp1-and-the-june-cumulative-update-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx
New features added by SharePoint 2010 SP1
http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=444
Patch SP2010 farms
Notes:
- MS has released SP1 for SP2010 and June 2011 CU on the same day 27 June 2011.
- There are seperate downloads for SPF (SharePoint Foundation) and SPS (SharePoint Server) updates, you should install both. Install the SPF update first followed by the SPS update.
- June 2011 CU is not part of SP2010 SP1, only install the June 2011CU if directed by MS and wait a month to see the fall out regardless.
- SP1 contains all CU updates including the April 2011 CU plus some other updates not in any CU.
- SPF SP1
- SPF language packs SP1 (as needed)
- SPS SP1
- SPS language packs SP1 (as needed)
- OWA SP1 (as needed)
As always test updates on your DTAP environment pre release onto production.
More Info:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/06/29/sharepoint-2010-sp1-and-the-june-cumulative-update-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx
New features added by SharePoint 2010 SP1
http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=444
Patch SP2010 farms
Monday 27 June 2011
Interested in Writing a Chapter for a SP2010 Community Book
About this book: This book consists of standalone chapters written by various authors with real world experience of SharePoint 2010. The content is predominantly non-technical allowing people involved and managing SharePoint 2010 projects to deploy SharePoint successfully within their business.
More info ...
More info ...
Friday 24 June 2011
AntiVirus for Windows 2008 Developer Machines or WAF
Problem: My developer machine always runs Windows 2008 R2 x64. I use the machine to browse the Internet and would like anti-virus installed. No workstation based anti-virus will install on Windows 2008 Sever.
Initial Hypothesis: All the vendors that provide Anti-virus for Windows 2008 are expensive and are Server based anti-virus software whereas I am using my developer machine to surf and occasionally bring on files so I only need workstation based anti-virus. Unfortunately I have never found a regular anti-virus that runs on Windows 2008 until now ... and best of all it's free and from Microsoft.
Resolution: Use "Microsoft Security Essentials"
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security_essentials/default.aspx
List of anti-virus plug ins
Update: 04 Sept 2013 - Antivirus and SharePoint 2013 (Spencer Harbar)
Initial Hypothesis: All the vendors that provide Anti-virus for Windows 2008 are expensive and are Server based anti-virus software whereas I am using my developer machine to surf and occasionally bring on files so I only need workstation based anti-virus. Unfortunately I have never found a regular anti-virus that runs on Windows 2008 until now ... and best of all it's free and from Microsoft.
Resolution: Use "Microsoft Security Essentials"
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security_essentials/default.aspx
List of anti-virus plug ins
Update: 04 Sept 2013 - Antivirus and SharePoint 2013 (Spencer Harbar)
Update: 31 May 2022 - WAF sometimes don't have a anti-virus or cost a lot. This is a simple approach to use a Linux container to provide an Open API endpoint to programmatically allow files and links to be scanned.
"The SWS Virus Scan Container project leverages ClamAV docker image and provides a REST API over it, which
can be used to scan files and URLs. This container image is compatible with Azure Web apps for Containers
and could also be run within other orchestrators like Kubernetes (and AKS)."
Thursday 23 June 2011
SP2010 install using AutoSPInstaller from PowerGUI
Problem: I want to install SharePoint 2010 using Brian Lala's AutoSPInstaller codeplex project however, I want to be able to see values and debug using PowerShell
Resolution:
Ensure AutoSPInstaller is setup correctly and PowerGUI is installed. Correct setup is shown below. Ensure that the xml file is named correctly.
Tip: Windows has a built in graphical debuggger for PowerShell called ISE Editor
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/01/19/debugging-powershell-script-using-the-ise-editor.aspx
PS> c:\SP2010\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerMain.ps1 c:\SP2010\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerInput-WIN-2C5PI8TSRPA.xml
Press F5 or the arrow to debug. I have all the .ps1 files in the PowerGUI editor and add break points.
Note. If you hit a break point and press F5 once you are debugging, PowerGUI will not stop at the next break point. F10 will take you to your next breakpoint or where the next error is trapped.
Resolution:
Ensure AutoSPInstaller is setup correctly and PowerGUI is installed. Correct setup is shown below. Ensure that the xml file is named correctly.
Tip: Windows has a built in graphical debuggger for PowerShell called ISE Editor
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/01/19/debugging-powershell-script-using-the-ise-editor.aspx
PS> c:\SP2010\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerMain.ps1 c:\SP2010\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerInput-WIN-2C5PI8TSRPA.xml
Note. If you hit a break point and press F5 once you are debugging, PowerGUI will not stop at the next break point. F10 will take you to your next breakpoint or where the next error is trapped.
Wednesday 22 June 2011
SP2010 CU April 2011
Overview: Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is the latest CU for SP2010 Server. The CU can be applied to an existing far or added be part of the install using AutoSPInstaller for new installations.
SharePoint Server 2010 cumulative update package can be found here. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2512800
Installation: You need to request the file from the link list above. Download the file to your local machines (It's about 600MB).
For an update simple extract the from the file 432209_intl_x64_zip.exe using the cmd>432209_intl_x64_zip.exe /extract:.\
SharePoint Server 2010 cumulative update package can be found here. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2512800
Installation: You need to request the file from the link list above. Download the file to your local machines (It's about 600MB).
For an update simple extract the from the file 432209_intl_x64_zip.exe using the cmd>432209_intl_x64_zip.exe /extract:.\
If you want to include the CU in a new install using AutoSPInstaller, you will need to extract the .msp files from office2010-kb2512800-fullfile-x64-glb.exe /extract:.\
And place the msp files inside the approriate directory in you AutoSPInstaller directory.
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