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
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 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
When Windows 7 came out last week, I decided to go ahead and install it on my laptop. I like what I see so far–everything seems to run faster in Windows 7! Same hardware; the apps just launch faster. For example, SharePoint Designer used to take 5-10 seconds to launch when it was Vista. Now, … Read more