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Configuring Sharepoint 2010 Part 2

I then chose to use the wizard. With the wizard it seemed that Sharepoint will attempt to use only one account for all of the services. I used WINSERVER2008\spt_service for all of them. I assume you’ll be able to change the service account for each service manually later on.   Once I finished the wizard there were […]

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Configuring Sharepoint 2010

The install finished successfully (thank God!). Now I arrive at the stage where I need to configure Sharepoint 2010.   Below were the steps I took:   1. I selected “Create a new server farm”.   2. I specified the database server as WINSERVER2008 (VM machine name).   3. I then specified WINSERVER2008\SPT_Farm as the database access […]

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Sharepoint 2010 BETA does NOT need 8GB of RAM

When SP2010 first came out everyone said that you’ll need at least 4GB of RAM. Since I don’t have that luxury just yet (my new laptop hasn’t come yet at the time of writing this article), I can only give 1GB of RAM to my VM.   Guess what… Sharepoint 2010 installed successfully on VM with […]

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Installing Sharepoint 2010

At this time of writing: Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 11:25pm I actually haven’t got my new laptop yet! Because I was away to overseas for holiday for about a month, the laptop was still held at custom. Anyway, it will be delivered on the coming Tuesday.   Therefore, at the moment I try to install Sharepoint 2010 […]

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Preparing the Environment for SharePoint 2010

Hi everyone,   I finally have the opportunity to prepare the environment to install SP2010.   Below is my environment configuration: 1. Host machine is running Windows 7 x64 (coz I love Windows 7, I still think that it’s the best operating system MS has ever released thus far). 2. I only install MS Office […]

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Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to run SharePoint User Profile Synchronisation nothing happened. The status was sitting at “Synchronising (0)”.   When I opened Event Viewer it showed: == The management agent “MOSSAD-XXXXXX” failed on run profile “DS_FULLIMPORT” because of connectivity issues. ==   Then when I dig further and run the following application: C:\Program […]

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Clicking on User Profile Service Application and Get Error Message

INTRODUCTION   I’ve just created a User Profile Service Application but when I tried to go into it (i.e. clicking on it) I get a pop-up error message. In SharePoint log the following error message is logged:   == Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: This User Profile Application’s connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or User Profile […]

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The file name or path does not exist when check-in/out publishing pages/master page/page layouts

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to check-in/out publishing pages, master pages and page layouts I get the “The file name or path does not exist” error.   CAUSE   The database server space is full.   RESOLUTION   Add more space or move the content database to a drive that has bigger space.

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User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions from User Profile Application: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: No User Profile Application available to service the request.

INTRODUCTION   Following my other post about User Profile service instantiation, the service is now fully started but when I click on the User Profile Service Application link I get an error message straight away.   When I looked in the log I get the following: == User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions […]

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Service Applications Not Provisioning – User Profile Service Status Going Back to Starting

INTRODUCTION   Everything was working fine only until recently where the User Profile Service status was going back to “Starting”. I then tried to delete the Service Application and start again but it failed. It popped-out with “Deleting” window but nothing happens.   I tried to provision a new Service Application and same. It opened […]

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