Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

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...

Central Administration Database Recovery

Problem You've lost, or you've accidentally deleted ,the Central Administration database from your MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services environment. Explanation Obviously corruptions happen, users get carried away with stsadm, or, in my case, you simply deleted the wrong database and you didn't have a backup. Luckily for me, I made this mistake in a test environment. Not to worry, there's any easy fix, see below! Solution It's actually quite simple to recover a central administration databas...