Upgrading is common function with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, whether it be product specific such as Service Packs and Cumulative Updates or platform specific such as new versions of products or the core operating system. Prior to upgrading to any version of a product or patching and updating that product you should understand both the process and options and available to you. This post provides recommended upgrade resources related to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and Server 2010 and the technologies on which depends separated by both Documentation and Tools resources because I hate looking for this stuff myself.
Bill Baer /bɛːr/
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One of the questions I’ve received on a few occasions to date is how to run the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool on a machine that does not have a connection to the Internet.
There are two possible methods to working around this scenario:
Manually download on another machine and then install the prerequisite software and configure the Server Roles, Role Services, and Features accordingly. See the following posts that describe the prerequisite software and accompanying download locations in addition to configuring the required Server Roles, Role Services, and Features for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and Server 2010.
I’ve been following the SharePoint 2010 Forums and have noticed several common installation issues. These issues and possible steps to resolve those issues are included here.
ISSUE #1: when running the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard you may experience the error:
Failed to create the configuration database.
An exception of type System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException was thrown. Additional exception information: The data is invalid.
To resolve the issue you can perform the following steps:
I’ve had a couple of questions on configuring the Web and Application server roles on Windows Server 2008 to support Microsoft SharePoint Server and Foundation 2010. This post will describe the minimal prerequisite configuration to support Microsoft SharePoint Server and Foundation 2010 on Windows Server 2008.
NOTE
PrerequisiteInstaller.exe can be used to programmatically configure Web and application servers and install the required prerequisite software. See also http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2009/11/18/installation-notes-for-microsoft-sharepoint-server-and-microsoft-sharepoint-foundation-2010-beta.aspx.
Required Roles
Application Server Web Server Role Services
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 introduces both new databases and databases whose distribution and purpose differs over previous versions of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. This post details the changes in the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 database layer. This section provides information about Shared Service Applications that have a database dependency and is not an exhaustive list of all Shared Service Applications available in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. At the time of publication this is not 100% complete.
Contents
Provisioning the Search Service Application
Moving Query Components
Creating Mirror Query Components
Creating Query Components
Creating Crawl Components
Creating Crawl Databases
Creating Property Databases
Provisioning the Search Service Application
Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
Select Managed service applications under Application Management.
Select New | Search Service Application on the ribbon user interface.
On the Create Search Service Application dialog specify the name for the new Search Service Application or accept the default name, usually Search Service Application 1.
Prerequisites
Usage and Health Data Collection and the Session State Service Application have been provisioned on the farm.
Provisioning the Web Analytics Service Application
Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
Select Manage service applications under Application Management.
Select New | Web Analytics Service Application on the ribbon user interface.
On the Create Web Analytics Service Application dialog specify the name for the new Web Analytics Service Application or accept the default name, usually Web Analytics Service Application 1.
About the Developer Dashboard
The Developer Dashboard is an instrumentation framework new to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and Server 2010 that can help diagnose particularly, classes of bugs that are easy to introduce through custom code, but often difficult to isolate by providing information about the request execution time, the number and callstack of each SPRequest allocation, the number, callstack, and query text of WCF calls and more.
The Developer Dashboard appears in a frame on the bottom of each page and can exist in one of three (3) possible modes – On, Off, OnDemand.
If you will be installing the SharePoint Server Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Windows 7 you will need to download and install an update from http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23806 to resolve an issue that occurs in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 when provisioning Service Applications or when accessing pages that make service calls. These operations will result in an error “System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive.
We launched a new update center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and related products today. The Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products provides information about current and past updates for Office, Forms Server, Groove Server, PerformancePoint Server, Project Portfolio Server, Project Server, Search Server, SharePoint Server, and Windows SharePoint Services. You can additionally subscribe to the RSS feed to receive important news about new and existing updates as they become available.