Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

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...

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...

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...

Configure a SQL Server Alias for Sharepoint (SQL Server 2008)

A SQL Server alias is a tidy way to protect yourself from configuration changes in a SharePoint farm. Anybody who works with SharePoint on a regular basis knows that it is very difficult to move SharePoint to a different SQL Server. When disaster strikes wouldn't it be nice if you could simply change SQL Server that SharePoint references? To do so, install the SQL client access tools on each server and create a SQL Alias in SQL Server Configuration Manager, from there your SharePoint Server can ...