Situation: you finished installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. You have ran the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. You are finally inside Central Administration 2010 and was surprised that creating new Web Applications is disabled: What the heck?? You thought you were admin! You check the Farm Administrators list and your account is there. So, what … 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
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