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FBA login page not showing up
August 29th, 2009If you have setup FBA and cannot see the fba login page then here is one thing to check…
When you add the required parts to the web.config files make sure that:
1. The initial connection string for the central admin web.config is just under the </sharepoint> tag.
2. The other two that need to be added to the <system.web> tags need to be under the LAST <system.web> tag and needs to be the LAST thing in between the tags. That means it needs to end on the line just before you see </system.web>. (A tip for this is to search for <system.web> and click next until you reach the last one. Then find your way from there.
Unknown Error - Issues with FBA via SharePoint
August 24th, 2009Getting this error when you login via FBA to SharePoint? Ahhh… chances are that you did not perform the undocumented step!
You MUST have the user you setup to run the FBA web application as the DBO role on the FBA database.
Affinity or Sticky Sessions
July 24th, 2009So what is Affinity? It is sticky sessions.. 
Then what is this “sticky session” thing you speak of?
Well when you connect to a website with NLB you are being passed from one server to the next depending on how many nodes or hosts you have. Every time you click a link it will essentially open a new connection which means if you were using Server1 and it is now server2’s turn to server a request then you will be moved to server2.
OK, so whats the big deal?
Well once it opens a new connection it will not save any info because it sees it as a new connection… This is a HUGE issue if you have to login to an app that is using NLB and you are sent to another server… you will have to re-login. So what sticky sessions does is allow you to use the same connection for all requests until you close the browser or leave the site.
Setup NLB in Windows Server
July 24th, 2009So to get started and do this the correct way you will need 4 network cards and a minimum of 5 IP addresses. (There is a way to do this with less which I will do a tutorial on a later date)
2 IP’s for standard access nics
2 IP’s for NLB connected nics (These MUST BE static IP addresses)
1 IP for Cluster IP address (You can have more than 1 but 1 is minimum) You will also need a DNS entry for this IP if you want to use it for websites. (MUST BE Static IP)
For my example I will be using: 10.1.1.24 - 10.1.1.28
10.1.1.24 and 10.1.1.26 will be my standard nics
10.1.1.25 and 10.1.1.27 will be NLB Connected nics (These MUST BE static IP addresses)
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Enable Self-Serve Site Creation via Central Admin
July 13th, 2009Want to do this from stsadm? go here
Open your central admin site: http://servername:port (Example: http://testserver:1234) and login as a farm admin.
Navigate to the “Application Management” tab
Application Management tab in Central Administration
MOSS SSP stuck at “Provisioning in Progress”
June 29th, 2009I experienced this issue the other day and went to “services” on the Windows Server (Start>Administrative Tools>Services) and found the “Windows SharePoint Services Timer”. Make sure this service is started. If it is started the stop it and restart it. This should resolve your issue. If not then you have another underlying problem to which you may have to start your install over.
the cabinet file required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used
June 18th, 2009I was trying to install the BI Dev part of SQL 2008 and kept getting that error… come to find out it was the Installer service and had NOTHING to do with SQL files. The fix is as follows…
Here’s the easy steps:
1. Go to a Windows machine that is running the same OS as you, that has the Windows
Installer service running correctly and run regedit(Start-Run-Regedit)
2. Go to the location
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\msiserver
3. Right click on this key and select “Export” and save the key to a Flash
Drive or some place that you can get to it from broken machine.
4. Run sfc /scannow on the damaged Windows computer - you won’t need the
install disk as it goes to backup files on your HD. Do NOT reboot when
complete
5. Double click saved .reg file from working machine and import registry
settings into damaged Windows computer.
6. Now reboot and try to install/uninstall again. Should resolve the issue.
Multiple SSL Sites using port 443
May 27th, 2009So had an issue a few weeks back getting multiple sharepoint sites on SSL using port 443. Thought host headers would do it but I was wrong. Found out the hard way that you have to use the command line to bind them to the host header/port. So what do you do? See below:
First get a Wildcard Certificate www.techmumbojumbo.com
Next, install the cert on one of the sites… export it, the import it to the other site.
From there we start binding- Open command prompt and navigate to: C:\inetpub\adminscripts (You will need to find out what the identifier is for each site)
[Open IIS, click on "Web Sites"... the identifers will show up in the window to the right]
Now in the command prompt type: cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /w3svc/<site identifier>/SecureBindings “:443:<host header>”
Example: cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /w3svc/1589652/SecureBindings “:443:<host header>”
Do this for each site you want to use port 443.
Exchange Support for Google Android!
April 1st, 2009I looked for a while to find something that would give me a reason to use a G1 phone but I needed exchange support. Google made it clear that they were not going to do it so I looked on the market place. I found all kinds of software that synced with calendars but not email, email but not calendar, etc, etc, etc… Finally I almost gave up and found this… http://www.nitrodesk.com/index.aspx . This group has created the first full activesync app for the Android/G1. The best part is when/if I have an issue I send an email to support and get responses rather quick… sometimes within a couple of minutes. The issues I am facing are with contacts… based on logs it looks like an exchange issue on my side. We tried a new release that they are working on and viola! It fixed my issue. Now I am in no way associated with Nitro Desk but I am SUPER EXCITED that this app has arrived because I tired of using windows mobile phones with crappy web browsers and no 3G. Thank you Nitro Desk for not sucking and creating a quality app!
I am so excited that these people exist that I added a link to them in my BlogRoll…
Set up kerberos with Excel Services within SharePoint to connect to Analysis Services
February 25th, 2009Recently we were trying to show a pivot table within SharePoint excel services and when we would try to drill down we would get errors… but only when we would try to drill into the report. We found that is was the dreaded “Double Hop” issue. I searched for a resolution and after reading several blogs and calling Microsoft we resolved the issue. I will attempt to recreate the steps for that process. The best instruction I found was THIS BLOG POST and THIS ONE AS WELL with only 1 detail missing. So here are the steps:
First you have to make sure service principal names are setup… If they are not you will have to set them up manually. This can be done from any domain machine logged in as a DOMAIN ADMIN. Here is the tool you need.
Setting SPN’s can break things so please be aware of that!
- Also, Make sure your Analysis Services Database permissions are setup correctly.
Commands you will need:
SHAREPOINT SERVICES
setspn -A HTTP/server domain\user
setspn -A HTTP/server.domain.internal domain\user
SQL SERVICES
setspn -A MSSQLSvc/server domain\user
setspn -A MSSQLSvc/server.domain.internal domain\user
ANALYSIS SERVICES
setspn -A MSOLAPSvc.3/server domain\user
setspn -A MSOLAPSvc.3/server.domain.internal domain\user
STEP1
You will need to run the setspn command for the following:
Sharepoint: Farm Account, SSP Service, Application Pools (intranet, ssp, mysites), excel services, content access, user profile and properties content access
SQL: SQL service and analysis services
See the above blog links for demonstration of how this works.
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