Monthly archives: June 2010

Installing SharePoint 2010 on a DC

By | Published June 8, 2010

A disclaimer fist: I am in no way advocating the installation of SharePoint 2010 on a DC in a production environment. This information should only be used to set up SharePoint in a lab environment. Microsoft do not support the installation of SQL Server on a DC, which is why the Standalone option is not available in the SharePoint setup.

Firstly, you need to download SQL Express from here. Install it on your Windows Server 2008 box (I was running R2). Use the default setup options, provide a user account for the service to run under.

Next, install the SharePoint Server. You can choose the installation location, but you will be guided through the complete setup without any choice. Choose any options that you require.

At the end, you will run the SharePoint Technologies Configuration Wizard. In the wizard you will be asked for the location of your SQL Server which is SERVERNAME\SQLEXPRESS. Enter this alongside the user name and password to access the server with. In this very initial test, I have used the administrator password for everything, no permissions issues with anything at the minute.

At the end you will have a working installation of SharePoint 2010 on a DC – great for testing.

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My Profile in My Site – Error 404 File Not Found (SharePoint 2007)

By | Published June 4, 2010

Just doing some pre-upgrade checks on SharePoint 2007. Want to make sure that everything is working as it is before upgrading.

As part of this I went to edit my profile on my personal site. Whenever I did though, I got an error message stating 404 File Not Found. Symptoms are described exactly in this Microsoft KB. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924399

Started reading through the solution, and walking through the steps. I hesitated on adding another Managed Path though, as there were already managed paths for MySite and Personal.

My advice is to skip to point 3 of the solution first and check that. In my case, it was that the Personal Site Services URL in SharedServices had been changed, which was causing the link to fail.

  1. Under Shared Services Administration, click Shared Service Provider (SSP).
  2. On the home page, click My Site settings under User Profiles and My Sites.
  3. On the My Site settings page, type the URL of the included path in the Personal site provider box in the Personal Site Services area.
  4. Configure the options that you want for the other settings, and then click OK.

In my case, putting ‘/mysite’ at the end of the URL and saving it solved the problem.

So, if you already have a load of Managed Paths, which include MySite, then check your URL first. May save you some time.

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Exchange 2010: No In-Place Upgrade

By | Published June 2, 2010

Really disappointed to have just found out that an in-place upgrade is not available when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010.

Totally understand why this is the case though. Database schema changes and the lack of storage groups in 2010 being the root cause. Not great news for the smaller places which probably haven’t got the finances to purchase a new server for a bare metal installation, or enough hardware to perform some sort of swing installation.

At least on a plus point, SharePoint 2010 does support an in-place upgrade from SharePoint Server 2007 SP2. At least one of the upgrades will be simple this year. Looking forward to trying out the new features. Shortly going to be getting our development system up and running ready to formulate our deployment plans.

Anyway, enough of my drivel. Back to coming up with a plan for our Exchange 2010 upgrade.

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Windows 2008 R2 RDS: Print Spooler Stops

By | Published June 2, 2010

We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing:

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1
Exception code: 0xc0000374

After trying to replicate the problem, we found that it only occurred when certain groups of users, all with the same login script, logged in to the server. Part of this login script adds some network printers for the user.

Turns out, we had just updated one of the print drivers for the printers, and whenever the user logged in, it was unable to install the new print drivers, because of the user’s access rights. Instead of it popping up asking for an administrators credentials to add the driver, the print spooler service was just failing.

The fix in this case was to simply log in as an administrator, add the printer, so that the driver gets installed.

Other fixes that I found on the internet all relate to driver issues, so do check that the drivers you are using are suitable for Windows Server 2008 and are WHQL.

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