This post isn't really too detailed or new for that matter. But I wanted to document the process of activating/installing Active Directory as a domain controller if for whatever reason you need to reference this for your SharePoint farm.
Step 6) Give your domain a actual full name. Keep in mind that when you are referencing your domain you'll just need to type the first part of the domain. Like in my case dev/eharlan
Step 7) Select your forest functional level. The latest version gets you all the newest features. Only select old version if you know you don’t need the new functionality
Step 9) Choose where you'd like your logs placed. There is no real right place.
Step 11) View the summary page. Everything look good? ok moving on.
Step 14) Solid, hit finish and restart. You're good to go.
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As most of us know by now either for better or worse, SharePoint 2010 is now officially 64 bit. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts there is a product (free) out called “Suns VirtualBox”. I won’t go too in depth with what this is but in the end know that it is possible (given hardware that supports virtualization) to run a 64 bit guest on a 32 bit host. Crucial if you want to play but don’t have the 64 bit environment to do so.Some expectation setting: This will be a standalone installation. I will be using VirtualBox. This install was done on 64 bit with 8 gigs ram. You will need: (i used standard, R2 gave me hell!) First thing is first http://www.virtualbox.org/ and get the install. Again it’s free. Go ahead and install the application. Now for the step by step.
VM Creation
2) Hit “Next” on the welcome prompt
3) Now you will choose a name for your VM (virtual machine). Try to pick something concise yet descriptive you could have a few VMs in the end. On the same screen select “Windows Server 2008 (64bit)” in the Version drop down if this option is not available to you, you have either not enabled “Hardware Virtualization” correctly in your machines Bios, or you don’t have said option and cannot proceed from here. Hit “Next”
(Do a bing search on your laptop and "Hardware Virtualization to find out how to exactly enable it for your machine)
4) Now you will choose how much RAM you want allocated to your VM when it is running. I have an 8 gig machine so I can choose a higher amount. If you have 4 gigs total go with 2 gigs to start. This screen is tricky because if you allocate more than half of the ram you have for your system it will “gray out” the “Next” option. For now, choose a level that will let you continue. You can change this in the “Settings” of that VM later.
5) Now you’ll choose to create a new hard disk. You won’t have one already created unless you imported one so leave this option selected and hit “next”.
6) Click “Next” on the welcome wizard screen
7) The next screen lets you choose if you want fixed or dynamically sliding storage. Keep dynamic selected unless you have a real hardware limitation. Otherwise you’ll run out of space with the install and won't be able to continue.
8) On the next screen the name of your VM will be visible with the option to create the VM at a specific location. It may be very important to choose an alternate location for your VM at this point. Its not a requirement but you may want the 10+ gig file to live on a specific drive or folder.I recommend choosing at least 50 gigs if you can
9) Lastly, take note of where the VM has been placed, you’ll need to know this at some point or another later.
10) Once you hit finished on the previous screen, a wizard will pop up letting you know this is the first time you’ve created a VM and suggests allowing you to mount a CD/DVD drive to the VM. If you have a CD/DVD with the Windows Server 2008 installation on it, go ahead and mount the drive. This will allow you to install from the CD/DVD as we’re all used to doing when formatting and installing a new OS.
Now the fun stuff
2) Once you get your machine back up the Server Manager will pop up and you’ll see the area highlighted for “Add Roles” Click this.
3) Next you'll see a "Before you begin" page, you can check "Skip this page by default" its an annoyance.
4) When adding Roles you'll want to add at least the two selected below "Application Server" and "Web Server (ISS)" after you check those, hit "Next"
5) For each Role you select, there will be corresponding screens associated with installing the roles you've selected. In this screen shot you'll see me starting to walk through the installation of the "Application Server" role. Hit "Next"
6) I selected the Web Server (IIS) Support box. When doing so I get the sub pop up that tells me the features being installed to support this role. Hit "Add Required Role Services"
7) Now I'm going through the same process for the "Web Server (IIS)" Role I chose to install. Hit "Next"
8) Now you'll be shown all the services for the IIS Role, hit "Next"
9) Now a quick overview of all the items I'm about to install in total. Hit "Install"
10) The installation process has begun.
11) After all the items have been installed you'll get a summary screen showing, hopefully, all the successfully installed Roles and features. Hit "Close"
12) Now a quick check to see if .Net 3.5 is installed. Navigate to "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework" and see if you have a 3.5 folder. If you do you're good to go. If you don’t. Go to microsoft's site and download/install .NET 3.5
13) Next on the list is making sure we install the KB article KB971831 you'll need to download and install this patch. This is an update that is needed to install SharePoint. I'll spare you the boring details.
Now for SharePoint itself active directory and make the server a domain controller as well if you want to install SQL server 05/08. As we stated in the start of this post, this is going to be a streamline version easy on resources for demos and sandbox so we'll skip that step.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=77c30c6c-47fc-416d-88e7-8122534b3f37
2) Rule the file and you will get the below screen. Hit "Install software prerequisites" (or just hit "P")
3) Listed are the items that the pre req installer will try to install for you. All needed to run SharePoint 2010 Beta. Hit "Next".
4) Check the silly agree box and hit "Next"
5) Go grab a coffee or eat lunch/dinner. It's going to be a little while. The installer will now go through and check to see if it needs to install any of the pre reqs. When it sees one it needs to install it goes through the process.
6) Once it's all said and done you'll get the summary screen letting you know what was installed and what was skipped/failed. Review and hit "Finish"
Note: Now is a GREAT time to shut down your VM (don’t save state)and back up the .vdi file (your whole vm) to another location. This will give you a clean installation if for whatever reason later you want to go with a full version of SharePoint with multiple servers or a full farm install. And it will be nice to have a set in stone roll back point that if all else fails you can just replace the file and start over. I HIGHLY suggest you do this now.
7) Now the install part itself. The you need to go back and run click on "install SharePoint Server" on the main screen. It will spin up and ask you for a serial number. You can use the one listed in the box below, it is a public beta serial. You can also use:PKXTJ-DCM9D-6MM3V-G86P8-MJ8CY
8) Hit that silly "agree" check box then hit "Continue" (continue huh? I was getting tired of typing "Next")
9) Now back to this little issue. Yes it is usually not a good idea to install SharePoint Standalone. Certainly never do this in a production environment. However again, for this example we're going with a standalone version. Click "Standalone"
10) And away we go, the installation process is underway. Just let it do its thing.
11) Once it finishes, you'll want to run the Confi wizard. Select the check box and hit "Close"
12) We go through yet another round of welcome screens. Hit "Next" (oh nice, there's next again)
13) You will be prompted that you're about to restart IIS and install stuff on your server, are you ok with that? Sure you are. Hit "Yes"
14) Now you will start the 10 steps to SharePoint bliss. Sit back and let the configuration wizard do its thing.
After a few minutes you should get lucky and see the following:
Troubleshooting
I hope that was helpful for some of you, enjoy and good luck!
Kudos to MossLover and Jie Li for thier write ups that contributed to this guide.
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I needed to install some third party software for a client. In addition to a few others the Telerik Rad controls were among them. I went through their process a few times on my virtual image and for some reason or another, I never had much luck, either something didn’t register correctly or I did something incorrectly. I tried some other methods of getting Ajax up and running in my environment including the codeplex solution. This didn't work for me either. With a tight deadline I just figured it out.
So if you're trying to install the Telerik RadControls or Rad editor here's what I did to get there, step by step. This is kind of a hybrid between a few different methods i've found online. Some taken from Telerik's website, but not all. Its the order that got me the results.
Enjoy.
Step 2 Ajax configuration Step 3 Incorporating RadControls for ASP.Net Ajax in MOSS
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Email Quick note for all you early adopters out there that are testing out the new SharePoint 2010. Since Microsoft has put out a new requirement of needing to be on a 64bit operating system. With that there are a lot of developers scrambling to find a good solid virtual environment that will allow you to run a 64bit guest on a 32bit host. At least until they can upgrade their hardware that is.
In comes Sun’s VirtualBox. VirtualBox is Sun’s FREE virtual machine software. It allows you to run 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts (slowly, but it’s a start). Luckily for me I have a 64 bit platform so I don’t use that side of things however; I have used VirtualBox to the extent of consuming my old VirtualPC files. There is no customization needed to do this, you literally open up VirtualBox, point it to your old VHD file and you’re off and running.
However I ran into a doozy of an issue today, completely by accident. I was copying some virtuals down to my usb hard drive while trying to open up another virtual machine on my computer itself. I got the following error.
After uninstalling and reinstalling 3 times with various build releases and googling for a few mins and reading everything from manually starting VboxSVR.exe to running VirtualBox under administrator, I got fed up and yanked out my drive and started off to my client site. However, something came up and I went back to my machine and I wanted to try one more thing. It was unrelated, but still somehow I came back to trying to start my VM up. And wouldn’t you know it, it came up.
So what changed? You won’t believe this. But the USB drive was not plugged in this time. Yes you read correctly. Having my USB hard drive (Seagate) plugged in made VirtualBox not start correctly.
I tested it on both my home machine and my work laptop with the same result.
So if you get this error.... Unplug your drive.
(side note this was a Windows 7 OS 64 bit with 4 and 8 gigs of ram, and this only seemed to happen with my seagate usb hard drive, not my others)
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Email Looks like I'll be headed off to the SharePoint conference after all. A great friend and fellow SharePoint enthusiast Jonathan Wynn (who is actually speaking at SPC09) found out I was not going, pulled some strings and made some calls to the SharePoint product team.
Next thing you know, I'm booking plane tickets to Vegas. After a lot of hard work from people like @loungeflyz and all the hard work that went into putting out MySPC, I wanted to post what sessions I'll be attending. These are both first second and third choices. I'm looking forward to going very much, for so long I was accepting of the fact that I wasn't going, so it's still sinking in.
Monday 1
Monday 2
Tuesday 1
Tuesday 2
Wednesday 1
Wednesday 2
Thursday 1
Thursday 2
Side note, I seeked out if it was ok to post these schedules, I was told there should be no reason not to. If you think these are not supposed to be posted please drop me a comment.
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Awesome sponsors, selfless volunteers and months of planning have appeared to have paid off. The event went off mostly without a hitch. Very little neutral to negative feedback so that’s always good, we did however get a lot of great tips for the next one. For example, don’t under plan coffee for technology people. Next time we’ll have a lot more coffee on hand for the very reason that it was slim pickings in way of coffee most of the day (sorry already... it won’t happen again lol).
I had a core group of outstanding volunteers that kept me sane. To that point it should never be said that SharePoint Saturday Baltimore was an Eric Harlan and Shadeed Eleazer production. That sentiment isn’t even close to the truth. Buddy Weber , Al Duns , Mark McGovern , Kacey Harlan , Deana McNeil , Renee Crews, and Don Zielke. All of these folks selflessly gave up time with their families and in some cases, their personal finances just to be a key piece of this SPSBmore puzzle. To then I am eternally grateful and can only hope that when the next SharePoint Saturday comes around they would be willing to help out once again. We were organized and efficient and I think in the end as a result of the multiple conference calls and in person meetings we had a plan and we executed it.
The sponsors we had were unbelievable, all of them were great to deal with and I made sure I spent quality time with each and every one of the folks manning the booths. We got some great feedback from all of them, giving us some great ideas for improvements next time around. I said it a few times at the event but the sponsors for SPSBmore were beyond crucial. I received tons of compliments for such a well run and upscale event. News break, it was the sponsors that made all that happen. Now I’m in no way peddling company’s wares, but sometimes we take for granted the role these ISV’s play in the community. These “FREE” events aren’t really all that free. A good read is a blog post by Joel Oleson: “SharePoint Partners are Part of a Symbiotic Ecosystem Not Leeches or Mice ”.
We had an ALLSTAR line up of speakers that much can be said for sure. Three MVP’s, multiple community leaders and speakers that have made the speaking commitment before were all in attendance. We also had a few new to the SharePoint community speakers and from what I hear, knocked it out of the park! Look for more from all of these folks as day’s progress. I know quite a few of them have already signed up to speaker at other upcoming events.
Lessons Learned.
Well I can say I learned a very important lesson from this event. The drive in the Baltimore SharePoint technology community is MUCH stronger than I had expected. I'm looking forward to seeing some of these new faces at the upcoming Baltimore SharePoint Users Group meeting in September.
Thank you all that helped make this event such a great success and I look forward to doing another SPSBmore in the upcoming months! Check back to the SharePoint Saturdayd Baltimore Site in the next few days, we'll have all the presentations posted up. Sorry for the delay.
Enjoy the photos!
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What a great time! TechEd Africa was a blast this year. The OFC track went extremely well with experts from all over the world and local of course coming in to share their knowledge with the good people in South Africa. The venue was at the ICC in Durban. The city was really cool, lot of character, and the sea world style water park/restaurant and bar scene was pretty wild, nothing like eating some wild seafood while a shark swims by you.
After a long drive Joel Oleson and I finally got into I got into our Hotel. He was told to proceed to the executive level on the 14th floor, to check in right away. I was in turn told to proceed to the basement (literally) and wait to check in until they cleaned up the rooms. Mind you, it was 7:30 pm. Granted I don’t really complain much but I figure a Hilton no less would have rooms ready for someone traveling as far as we did and arriving so late in the day. Oh well despite that initial snafu, the stay was great. Clean room, fluffy pillows and a clean bed, other than an on time check in, you can’t ask for much more can you?
We made our way over to the Sunday night welcome party. Wow, walking in the door right away I was taken back. Tons of people, the bar was flowing, people were dancing laughing and having a great time. The first words out of my mouth were “Man, these South African’s know how to party”. I was pretty beat and through the kindness of everyone purchasing me drinks, it was probably a good idea to go back to my room at that point, do some final prep work and get some sleep as I was pretty jet lagged still.
Monday came around, and I made my way to the speaker lounge where we did some last preparations, met a lot of the days speakers and shared some stories. Zlatan Dzinic was in his typical form and I was feeding off his excitement. I’m just not a morning person and with it being around 2am my time, I was struggling a good deal.
I got to my first session and began to give my presentation. I won’t lie, I felt flat. I’m not sure if it was the nerve’s the jet lag or what but I didn’t feel like I had my usual excitement or vibe. The session scored really well and with some good tips from some very knowledgeable people and decided for my next session I would certainly crank it up a notch or two.
My next three sessions, I felt I knocked out of the park. I averaged above a 4.15 for all of them and I was overall really happy with what I talked about. You can find my session recaps here. I even recorded a couple on my own. I have to talk to some folks to see if that content can be published or not since it was a paid conference.
SharePoint List Mashup's using SharePoint Designer
SharePoint's Federated Search and Social Networking
SharePoint Architecture Panel Discussion with Joel, Eric and Zlatan and Hilton Giesenow
Twitter and the SharePoint Community-TechEd Online Video Joel Oleson & Eric Harlan
(video embedding coming as soon as they post them)
The Moss Show session recorded by Hilton Giesenow Which should be up in a bit after it's edited. (I'll post the links here)
Michael O’Donovan and Amory did a freaking outstanding job. Just rolling off of putting together SharePoint Saturday Baltimore (with many other volunteers), I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into putting this one together.
I do have one regret however; I never got a good photo of myself behind the TechEd podium. I know Veronique Palmer grabbed a shot with her Iphone however. If anyone did get a shot please send it to me.
(Photo Veronique Palmer @veroniquepalmer)
Africa treated its International speakers extremely well. Scratch that, Africa treated ALL the speakers extremely well. Forget the honor and privilege it is to even speak at TechEd, it was like you were just part of the extended family and you were coming home for a family reunion or something.
I sat in on as many sessions as I could squeeze in and still feel comfortable with timing on my own sessions. I got to sit in on some PowerShell presentations, exchange and SQL sessions. I REALLY enjoyed the level of technical information given in the sessions slated as technical and the high level approach for sessions labeled as 200 for example. Everyone were pro’s they knew exactly how to say it and what to say.
I would love to go back to Africa regardless to speak at TechEd again or not. My expectations were blown clear out of the water and it was nothing like I expected. I’m ashamed to even repeat what my expectations were but regardless I was blown away both by the breath of the event and the shear professionalism of how it all came together, with of course an extensive mixture of fun thrown in there!
And with fun usually it involves Guitar Hero and Xbox!
Lastly, if im honest I couldn't have done this with out the support of Sogeti Baltimore. My GVP was beyond helpful, he'll never admit it but I couldn't have done it with out his blessing. For that I'm eternally grateful.
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Email The Regional SharePoint Conference was a lot of fun! Deanna McNeil, Gary Vaughn, and Nelson did a great job getting it all put together. Two days of speakers, food, and organization is not an easy task to pull off.
@MrShadeed and I did a joint presentation on Paperless office with InfoPath as well as InfoPath Best Practices. We had a great turn out with AWESOME participation. I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of these folks over at SharePoint Saturday Baltimore!
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Email SharePoint Saturday Baltimore opens for registration July 13th at 10am. Mark your calendars this event is sure to book up fast!
Here’s the text for the event so far. Or you can go to www.sharepointsaturday.org/baltimore
Save the Date!
Join us in welcoming the first SharePoint Saturday event to Baltimore, MD
SharePoint Saturday Baltimore will feature a lineup of heavy hitters within the SharePoint community including: Michael Noel, Joel Oleson, Dux Raymond Sy, Steve Andrews, Susan Lennon, Dan Lewis, Errin O'Connor, Russ Basiura, Paul Schaeflein, Mike Watson, and more!
When: Saturday July 25th, 2009
Where: UMBC Tech Center
1450 South Rolling Road
Halethorpe, MD 21223
More Info: http://sharepointsaturday.org/baltimore
*Registration will open on July 13th, 2009. There will be another email letting you know when registration is open on the site as well as a link to go and sign up. Register ASAP as slots tend to fill VERY quickly.
What is SharePoint Saturday?
A FREE one day conference that gathers the best SharePoint professionals from around the country for a intense day filled with education, community, and prize giveaways.
We will be offering a SharePoint 101 track as well. This track will be a very exclusive 25 person session that will last for 2 two hour sessions. This will be an option to register for separate from the normal days sessions. If you or your organization has some representatives that need very basic ground floor overview of SharePoint, this is a great opportunity.
Speaking about registration, you will be required to validate you are still able to come to the event a few days prior even after you have already registered. The reason we are doing this is to take full advantage of our limited space. We will be filling any newly opened slots from our 40 person waiting list. The event will officially be open to 150 guests as well as the 25 SharePoint 101 attendees.
Additionally, we are still fielding additional sponsors to help promote the event. If you or your organization feels this might be a good fit, please drop us a line back and we can talk specifics as well as send out information packages. As you know our sponsors and volunteers are really what make this “free” event “free”.
If you need hotel accommodations for the event, please go to the hotel page on the site, we have a group rate at Hiltons Homewood Suites hotel 10 mins from the venue. We will also be running a shuttle from the hotel to the event and back.
Last, We’ll be sure to keep you all in the loop as things progress. This is going to be a great event and hopefully something that makes it back to Baltimore many times over. We look forward to seeing you all. Tell a friend, tell a colleague. The DC event filled up in under 32 hours being a smaller capacity event we expect the same!
Thanks again,
SPSBmore Gang
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