Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

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...

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 2 – Install SQL

This article describes the installation process for a SQL server on an all-in-one SharePoint 2010 development server. If you didn't follow Part 1 of the SharePoint 2010 Installation series you'll need to create a SQL service account to support the SQL Server 2008.  While there are many ways to configure SQL and many possible features that you can activate, the steps below demonstrate a “least” features approach allowing you to simply install and run a dumb SQL Server. Let’s start by mount...