Thursday, November 26, 2009

How to get the Windows Service name from the Windows Service Description

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”

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Beta Release Known Issues

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

CJG : SharePoint 2010 - Wait, its not working! HELP!

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

  • Check IIS Application Pool called "SharePoint Web Services" IS RUNNING, and make sure its not running as "Local System" but something that has some *UMMPHF* to it!
  • Check Timer Service - this thing seems to shut itself down and doesn't restart!  Make sure it is running or NOTHING will happen in your system

That will solve ALOT of your problems!

Chris

See CJG : SharePoint 2010 - Wait, its not working! HELP! for original post.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Installation notice for the SharePoint Server Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows 7

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.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Installation notice for the SharePoint Server Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows 7

I expect someone has been working very hard to get this fix out so quick, so…thank you.

Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products

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

Developing a provider for the Outlook Social Connector

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

Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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

Thursday, November 19, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Beta – allowInsecureTransport Installation Issues

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:

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Available on MSDN

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!

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Windows Live Writer 2009 – Installing on Windows Server 2003


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.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

SharePoint Silverlight WebPart Update

I've updated my SharePoint Silverlight WebPart. It now works with Silverlight 3.

You can download a copy from http://www.triplewood.com/silverlight