Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

Geneva Error – Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Configuration.MicrosoftIdentityModelSection’ to type ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Configuration.MicrosoftIdentityModelSection’.

I was lazy and decided to uninstall my Beta SharePoint, delete all of the databases, then re-install SharePoint 2010 RTM on my server.  Everything ran perfectly through the install until I ran the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard and received the error shown below. Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception 07/14/2010 10:39:47 8 ERR Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Configuration.MicrosoftIdentityModelSec...

Creating a State Service Database for SharePoint 2010 Using Windows PowerShell

Problem SharePoint health analyzer states that the state service is  missing its databse. Solution Create the state server database by following the steps  below 1) Login to SharePoint farm member server under the credentials of a farm administrator 2) Open “SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (don’t just open PowerShell) NOTE: If you receive the “The Local Farm is Not Accessible” error see the following article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2010/01/29/the-local-farm-is-not-a...

SharePoint 2010 workflows Not working

Problem You have a shiny new SharePoint 2010 environment and it’s running beautifully but you can’t create workflows.  Actually, some workflows that don’t have an InfoPath association screen do work, however, others, such as the 3 State Workflow don’t work.  Figure 1 below shows the 2nd screen of the 3 state workflow which is actually an InfoPath form, if you get an error on this screen then follow the steps in the solution below. Figure 1: InfoPath based 3 state approval workflow assoc...

Where’s InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint 2010?

Problem I have noted that in both my lab and some client machines that InfoPath forms services is not available under general application settings in central admin. It's also not visible under "Manage Service Applications" Solution Manually activate the feature using stsadm: Login to host with admin rights Open command prompt (run as administrator) Run the following command c:\program files\common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\bin\stsadm -o insta...

SharePoint 2010 Installation Part 3 – Install SharePoint

This article is part 3 in a 4 part series that shows how I build my SharePoint 2010 development environment from the ground up.  In the previous series I built a Windows 2008 R2, configured the Active Directory Domain Services role, provisioned SharePoint service accounts, configured the IIS role, installed and configured SQL 2008, updated SQL, and configured a SQL Server alias. Now that you've diligently followed all of the steps in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, and taken snapshots al...