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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...

61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1 Launch Permissions – Event 10016 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (SharePoint 2007 & SharePoint 2010)

If you are running Windows Server 2003 or a pre Windows Server 2008 R2 build then please refer to this article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2009/01/27/61738644-f196-11d0-9953-00c04fd919c1-launch-permissions/ . However, if you are running Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher follow the steps below to correct the Event 10016 DCOM error 61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1 related to the IIS-WAMREG Admin Service. Always test these changes in your development and staging environment!!! The DCO...

The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered

Problem When you run powershell on your server you get the following error: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.   Solution Make sure the logged in user has rights to the SharePoint_Configuration database SharePoint_Shell_Access DB_owner (try reducing the privileges after you get it working in order to support “least privileges”