When you’re trying to create a Search Center site in SharePoint 2010, you get an error that looks like the following: You have to activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure in Site Collection Features in order to create Search Center sites:
When I was configuring SharePoint 2010 in Windows 2008 R2 to use Kerberos, I bumped into this Technet article, which discusses configuration of Kerberos for SharePoint 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806870.aspx In the article, it advises to verify that Kerberos is used by looking at the Security event log and looking for Event 540. Well, event 540 never showed up. … Read more
In case you are wondering where the ApplicationHost.config is located, perhaps because you have to make some modifications to it, you can find the file at: C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config Backup the file before you make modifications!!!
There are two options when configuring SharePoint 2010 security in “classic mode” (as opposed to claims-based). You can use Basic (NTLM) or Negotiate (Kerberos). If you use NTLM, you may run into double-hop issues. This is why you will probably want to use Kerberos over NTLM (this assuming you’re not yet moving towards claims-based authentication). … Read more
When you run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard for the first time, you get the following error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database ‘master’. This means that the domain account you specified to connect to the SQL Server does not have permissions to create the SharePoint config database. So go to your SQL Server … Read more
When installing SharePoint, you have to install prerequisites first. If you launch the SharePoint Prerequisites Installer from the SharePoint setup GUI (clicking the link), you may notice that most prerequisites (like IIS) installs correctly but there are some that wouldn’t install correctly. Some of the errors that I experienced: Error: Startup task doesn’t exist. This … Read more