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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...

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...

Unable to browse SharePoint locally or Search Service Fails to Index Content

This is an alternative to the "disable loopback check" which is no longer recommended by Msft due to security concerns related to local activation. Problem You are able to browse SharePoint normally from external sources, but when you attempt to access SharePoint on the local server for anything other than the machine name you are presented with multiple login prompts that ultimately result in a login error Explanation The http request fails because a loopback check runs and fails ...

SharePoint 2010 Installation Part 1 – Server Build

A lot of clients and colleagues ask me how I build out SharePoint in my lab so I decided to author a simple "how I did it" article on SharePoint 2010 installation. My environment is an 8GB Vista 64 Bit Ultimate running VMWare workstation 7.0. The host operating system typically only supports my Subversion repository and runs nothing else, all development, testing, and configuration happens on my development (guest) OS which, in this case is a 64 Bit Windows Server 2008 R2 *** It must b...