Sometimes you need to stop and start a Windows Service from the Cmd line or from a batch file. To do this you need to know the Windows Service’s ‘KeyName’ rather than the display name of the service.
To get the KeyName run this command from the cmd line:
C:\sc.exe GetKeyName DisplayName
Example
C:\sc.exe GetKeyName “Windows Services Timer service”
will return Name = SPTimerV3
You can then use this name in your batch files i.e.
net stop “SPTimerV3”
net start “SPTimerV3”
I’ve been looking for a list of know issues in the SharePoint 2010 beta for a while now. There is now a list on the Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog. Hopefully this will be kept up to date. Click through for full story.
Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 Beta Release Known Issues
Good post from Chris at CJG: I’ve come across the same issues but CJG beat me to the blog:
Ok, the two most important things for you to check if something is NOT working in SharePoint 2010
That will solve ALOT of your problems!
Chris
See CJG : SharePoint 2010 - Wait, its not working! HELP! for original post.
In a previous blog post I whinged about errors when installing the SharePoint beta on Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m happy to say that Microsoft has now provided the WCF Hotfix to fix the allowinsecureTransport bug. To download it click here Be sure to read the whole story on the SharePoint Team blog.
I expect someone has been working very hard to get this fix out so quick, so…thank you.
Here’s a link for your bookmarks bar. Good to see this all presented in one nice easy to read place.
The update center which will enable customers to find an up-to-date list of all of Office and Office Server and Related Products Service Pack, Public Update, and Cumulative Update releases in one location.
Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products
Excellent article from the Microsoft Outlook team blog. This is just one of the many new features I’m excited about in Office 2010.
As a developer its great to see that many of the new Office 2010 features are extendable. Follow the link for the full story
Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog : Developing a provider for the Outlook Social Connector
There’s a lot of new tech coming out at the moment. It feels like Christmas. Here’s one that’s worth a look Chromium OS (The Chromium Projects) better know as Google Chrome OS is now available as a VMWare Virtual machine courtesy of gdgt get it Here
My first attempt at getting the new SharePoint 2010 beta installed and working had mixed results. I built a clean Windows server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine and followed all the installation steps to the letter. SharePoint installed and a lot of stuff worked but I couldn’t get any of the SharePoint service applications working.
Digging into the logs I could see the error invalid attribute "allowInsecureTransport="true" in the web.config for all service applications. Hmmm.
It turns out there is a WCF HotFix you have to install, (at the moment there is no Windows Server 2008 R2 version) for other OS versions – You can download the hotfix from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkID=160770
In fact there are quite a few extra steps you need to do before you get a good install. These are covered in Jie Li's GeekWorld Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta and now on also on Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta
I must admit I’m a bit surprised that Microsoft released the Beta without this either being fixed or documented as a known issue. I’m not sure what the truth of it is but it does give the impression that a standard “next, next, next” type install was not tested before being released.
UPDATE: Resolved you can download the Patch for R2 here
UPDATE: link to connect removed:The public betas of SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 are now available for download on MSDN Subscriptions
At last! now we can all get a look. Having been through the beta stages of SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007 and now 2010 this will be my 4th Major SharePoint beta!
I like windows Live Writer 2009. Its a great little tool for writing blog posts but… by default it won’t install on Windows Server 2003.
Luckily I found at great workaround at NewbTech blog.
Windows Live Writer 2009 – Installing on Windows Server 2003 ~ Newb Tech
Now if only there was a version for Mac OSX.
