Now that SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is out… I wanted to share one of the features that is going to be much appreciated by SharePoint Administrators and Site Collection Administrators.
No more attaching backups of your content database and powershell to restore the deleted SharePoint site! Read the rest of this entry »
Again this is a reference blog post that I am copying across from Ravi’s blog to have all steps in one place and more so for my own reference 
on the web, just in case I lost my drives, laptop and skydrive was unavailable in future… 
This is continuing with method 2 to prepare environment for building a SharePoint 2010 Farm [Dev]
Early this week (Monday), I had tweeted that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Download was available for Microsoft Partners – SDPS. If you are following me on http://twitter.com/alpesh you know about it! This download has now been made available for everyone.
To quote from the download page:
This download contains a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:
1. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
3. Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
4. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate Edition
5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Beta 2
6. Microsoft Office Web Applications Beta 2
7. FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
8. Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta 2
9. Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2
10. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2
Virtual machine “b” contains the following pre-configured software:
1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain
2. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Active directory has been preconfigured over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure.
All of these user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010, with “contoso\administrator” granted administrator permissions.
SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using Kerberos authentication and the default SQL Server 2008 instance for data, and has a site collection created using the Team Site template at http://intranet.contoso.com/ and a FAST Search Center at http://intranet.contoso.com/search/.
Performance Considerations
1. If possible, unpack and run the VM image on a separate, fast hard drive (7200 RPM or better) from the operating system of the host machine. If this is being done on a laptop, a second internal drive or external eSATA drive works best, though USB 2.0 (make sure it’s 2.0, 1.1 is too slow) or Firewire is acceptable.
For absolute best performance use a second internal SSD drive.
a. Start Hyper-V Manager from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools
b. Confirm that the local host machine appears in the Hyper-V Manager list and select it if not already done
c. Under Actions, click Virtual Network Manager…
d. Confirm that you have created an Internal virtual network named “Internal”. Internal networks limit connectivity to only VMs and the host.
If a suitable not, create one now using the following steps:
i. Click on Virtual Network Manager in the Actions pane
ii. Choose New virtual network in the Virtual Networks pane
iii. Choose Internal from the type list and click Add
iv. Enter a name of Internal and click OK v. Start menu -> right-click Network –> Properties
vi. Click Change adapter settings
vii. Find the adapter with a description of Internal, right-click and choose Properties
viii. Double-click on Internet Protocol Version 4 and enter the following values: 1. IP address: 192.168.150.6 2. Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 3. Default gateway: (leave blank) 4. Preferred DNS server: 192.168.150.1
ix. Click OK
e. Close the Virtual Network Manager dialog.
a. Under Actions, click Import Virtual Machine…
b. Use the Browse button to select the folder where the virtual machine package was extracted. Do not check
c. Click Import and wait for the Import to complete – the import status will appear in the Operations column
d. Select the newly imported virtual machine and click Settings in the right pane of the Hyper-V Manager
e. Confirm (and correct if necessary) that the Network Adapter is connected to the Internal network from step 1d.
f. Close the virtual machine Settings dialog.
Download 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)
Wow! What a conference it has been. I am was at Las Vegas airport, returning back to Brisbane from Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, when I started writing this post. It has taken me a while to get it done.
It has been a great conference with around 8000 people at the conference from over 43 countries! The main focus of this conference was the next version of SharePoint – 2010. It was finally showcased with the Beta2 build at the keynote and subsequent sessions. This post marks the beginning of a series of recap posts of my time at the conference, which far by was the best one I have attended till date.
Situation
SharePoint alerts not working for users.
Outgoing email address is configured to support@serviceproviders.email. This mailbox is not configured on local SMTP server (Exchange 2003). Hence SharePoint cannot send email via Exchange as open relay is turned off; as it should be.
Outgoing email address should be configured to local.user@mycompany.com -an active local mailbox. Test that you can access local.user mailbox either through Outlook Web Access or Outlook client.
James Milne of Myriad Technologies has just released this content type toolbar today. It is free and very easy to deploy.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: Database
Event ID: 5214
Date: 10/16/2008
Time: 8:43:58 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SHAREPOINTSERVER
Description:
Insufficient SQL database permissions for user ” in database
‘SharePoint_Config’ on SQL Server instance ‘SharePointDataBase’. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.
The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object
‘proc_putPendingDistributionList’, database ‘SharePoint_Config’, schema ‘dbo’.
This is a known issue and can be resolved with the August 2008 cumulative update.
1. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hot fix package
2. SharePoint Server 2007 hot fix package
Thanks to Lambert Qin from Microsoft Online Support on Eggheadcafe
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