Here’s a little teaser showing what we’re going to implement:

I’m looking forward in seeing you there,

thomas

On October, 20^th 2011 together with my colleague Fabian Schenker I’ll present the session:
ShowerPoint - PowerShell und SharePoint für die Installation und Management von SharePoint 2010 Farmen (d)

Hope to see you there.

-thomas

Here’s you do that:

Download the SharePoint Foundation SP1 bits (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460058 ) and extract the files from this package by running:
sharepointfoundation2010sp1-kb2460058-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:<some directory>

Download the SharePoint Server SP1 bits (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045 ) and extract the files from this package by running:
officeserver2010sp1-kb2460045-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:<some directory>

And finally copy all of these extracted files into the “\Updates” folder of your SharePoint Server 2010 RTM bits.

Now you can start the installation and once you’re finished you should be able to see version number: 14.0.6029.1000 on Central Administration which indicates that service pack 1 is installed.

-thomas

After installing the service pack you run:

psconfig.exe –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b –wait

to start updating the database and to permission the binaries.

During that process I got the error message:

“The upgrade command is invalid or a failure has been encountered.

…

The following is missing on <servername>

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Well that’s strange because I’ve just installed the service pack.

Checking the upgrade status on _admin/PatchStatus.aspx I see:

To fix that issue run the following PowerShell Commandlet on that server:

Get-SPProduct –local

This will force the Product Version Timer Job to run and after that you should be able to re-run the psconfig command.

-thomas

If you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 you can boot into a virtual hard disk and you’re getting almoust the performance of a pure physical install.

Here’s how I configured my machine:
On a Hyper-V machine I created a new VM where I:

· installed Windows Server 2008 R2

· installed IIS

· modified the regional settings

· set timezone

· disabled loopback check: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa new DWORD Value DisableLoopbackCheck=1

· disable shutdown event tracker (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/555541/en-us)

· activated the W2K8 feature ".NET 3.5"

· installed a Loopback Adapter, assigned the fix IP address 10.10.10.1

· installed FireFox

· installed Reflector

· installed Virtual Clone Drive

· installed Office: Office Pro, SPD, Visio, SharePoint Workspace, Project

After that I executed sysprep and did a shutdown on the VM.
With that I’ve got a base VM which can be used as the base for new virtual machines or for VHD boot.

Now I copied this .vhd file into another folder e.g. C:\VHD\W2K8R2.vhd

To boot into that VHD file:

· open an elevated command prompt and run: bcdedit /copy {current} /d “SP2010”
(take a note of the GUID and use it in the following commands)

· bcdedit /set {GUID} device vhd=[C:]\VHD\W2K8R2.vhd

· bcdedit /set {GUID} osdevice vhd=[C:]\VHD\W2K8R2.vhd

Now if you’re rebooting this machine you should see the new boot option “SP2010”.
After the machine started I executed these tasks:

· activated the W2K8 feature "Active Directory Domain Services", Desktop Experience, Wireless LAN Service

· executed dcpromo to create my domain

· activated the “Themes” Service

· installed SQL 2008 + SP1 + CU2

· installed VS.NET 2010 Beta 2

· installed SharePoint 2010 Beta 2

· added the SharePoint “14” folder as a library

· installed SDK

With that I got a very performing – and nice looking – SharePoint 2010 development machine.

-thomas

The Web application at https://... could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

Then the root cause is probably not:

-Misconfigured AAM
-Missing App. Pool permissions

It is probably that you’re compiling for x86 platform target.

Change that to x64 and your code will probably work:

-thomas

“Cannot find the physical computer that runs the virtual machine. Try to flush your DNS cache (run ipconfig /flushdns). Then try to connect again. If the problem persists, contact the administrator of the physical computer or your network administrator”

This occurred when having no connection to a network in a pure offline scenario. The connection to an existing VM on that same machine using RDP worked just fine.

After some debugging we found the root cause of this (thanks Jeromy!). The issue was related to the fact that the laptop was used for Direct Access.

When a Hyper-V enabled machine is disconnected from the network, the Hyper-V virtual switch keeps the network adapter as connected to a network.  This means that the NIC will get auto-assigned addresses etc.  Direct Access is still active in this configuration. Most importantly the NRPT configuration is still active which prevents one of the requirements for Hyper-V server from functioning properly.

The real problem:
Hyper-V server requires the ability to connect back to the “remote” client via resolving the FQDN of the connecting client and establishing its own TCP connection back to the “remote” client.  Even while managing Hyper-V locally the local tools are seen as a “remote” client and as such the Hyper-V server will extract the FQDN of the connection and attempt to do name resolution to ensure that the client that is connecting actually owns the IP address it is connecting from. With NRPT active but unable to access a Direct Access server because the Direct Access client is offline the NRPT prevents the resolution of the FQDN (it would have allowed short-name resolution to fall through and use local LLMNR except that the connection is using IPv4 and not IPv6 and thus the IP addresses would not match and the connection is denied as a “spoof” attack).  Once NRPT is taken out of the picture the Hyper-V server is able to properly do name resolution leveraging the local resolver and everything connects up just fine.

The solution:
-go into the Registry and delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient\DnsPolicyConfig"
-in an elevated command prompt, enter: sc control dnscache paramchange

After that the “Virtual Machine Connection” was working fine.

-thomas

To add a new “Favorite” to that list e.g. to run your search queries against www.live.com just copy the following XML into a file, save it as live.osdx.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="https://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>Live Search</ShortName>
<Description>Use live.com to search the web index.</Description>
<Tags>Web</Tags>
<LongName>Live.com Web Search</LongName>
<Image width="16" height="16" type="image/gif">https://search.live.com:80/s/rsslogo.gif</Image>
<Query role="example" searchterms="seattle"/>
<Developer>Microsoft Corporation, Live Search Development Team</Developer>
<SyndicationRight>open</SyndicationRight>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
<Url type="text/html" template="https://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}"/>
<Url type="application/rss+xml" template="https://api.search.live.com/rss.aspx?source=web&amp;query={searchTerms}&amp;web.count=50&amp;mkt={language?}"/>
<ms-ose:ResultsProcessing format="application/rss+xml" xmlns:ms-ose="https://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
<ms-ose:LinkIsFilePath>True</ms-ose:LinkIsFilePath>
<ms-ose:PropertyDefaultValues>
<ms-ose:Property schema="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2008/propertynamespace" name="System.PropList.ContentViewModeForSearch">prop:~System.ItemNameDisplay;System.DateModified;~System.ItemPathDisplay;~System.Search.AutoSummary;System.LayoutPattern.PlaceHolder;System.LayoutPattern.PlaceHolder;System.LayoutPattern.PlaceHolder</ms-ose:Property>
</ms-ose:PropertyDefaultValues>
</ms-ose:ResultsProcessing>
</OpenSearchDescription>

After double-click that file you’ll get this message:

Click “Add” and you’ll get “Live Search” as a new entry in your “Favorites”:

Now you can run your search queries using Live Search directly from your Windows 7 explorer:

Enjoy,
thomas

Microsoft Switzerland together with our partner 1eEurope implemented such a web site. We published this solution with the code here on Codeplex:
https://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=bks
After installing this solution you get a complete starter site with master-page, content-page and content types which can be used as the base for your project.

Here's how the sample site looks like:

You can find this sample site here: https://bks.1eeurope.ch/en-US/Pages/default.aspx

Enjoy,
thomas