I am in the process of getting up to speed with the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE and how it can be used to develop custom SharePoint 2010 solutions. It’s so easy to do a “Hello World” Web part project now. These days, my Hello World projects typically involve opening up a database table and … Read more
The hardest part in installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 is the installation process itself and then configuring the Complete installation on a single-server of the SharePoint Config Database while using local accounts. Once the SharePoint Content DB and the SharePoint Admin Content Databases are created, you can now run psconfigui.exe, SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. … Read more
Here are some of the other errors that I received while creating my SharePoint 2010 environment in Windows 7. New-SPConfigurationDatabase: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version 3.5.0.0. The Power Shell looks like the following when you’re running New-SPConfigurationDatabase to configure your SP database for the first time: The fix: Install Microsoft Identity Framework … Read more
I’ve been hesitant to install SharePoint 2010 on my computers, virtualized or otherwise, due to what I think to be steep hardware requirements to run SharePoint 2010. My impression was I needed a beast to run SharePoint 2010. I’ve seen demos where the hardware is a LOT better than what I have and demo choked—super … Read more
There is big SharePoint team in one of my customers and it’s a good blend of developers, engineers, analysts, and managers. When this team started in 2007, only a handful (2 people really) was knowledgeable in the ways of SharePoint. But because the user-base for this organization is so big, technical resources of other backgrounds … Read more
I was viewing my blog today and noticed the tag cloud on my sidebar. The most prominent tags are “SharePoint”, “Developers”, and “Administrators”. SharePoint. Developers. Administrators. From time to time, I will meet SharePoint professionals in networking events or when interviewing job applicants at a customer site and I will ask what their SharePoint experience … Read more