SharePoint 2010

During the rebuild of my Dev Environment with SP2010 (the RC version) I was unable to get the Profile Sync service to work with the local domain. “Starting” was all it did until if finally un-provisioned itself to Stopped.

Read more: StefvanHooijdonk.com

Recently I started to look into some more detail at PowerShell and the SharePoint 2010 Snap-in. As a small exercise I wanted to create something (somewhat) usefull.

I came up with a small site structure install script for SP2010.

Read more: http://stefvanhooijdonk.com/2010/03/02/power-of-powershell-and-the-sharepoint-snap-in/

When I tried to install the new RC of SharePoint 2010 on my machine, I got an “Error creating configuration database” message. When I went to the installation log I found a “User cannot be found” error. The cause was that the configuration wizard could not find the AD controller, which was easily solved by opening a VPN connection as I was working from home.

There is a “small” error in the Application Pool configuration of SP2010:

“Unfortunately when creating a Web Application, SharePoint 2010 uses the SharePoint only property Display Name for the STS application. The STS application is required as part of every SharePoint 2010 Web Application and lives at /_vti_bin/sts.
As the Web Application is being provisioned SharePoint uses the display name, SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool. This of course doesn’t exist in IIS and so the loading of this application pool for each web application will fail every time IIS starts up. This will result in a 5048 Warning from WAS within the System Event Log (for each Web Application)”

Read more here: http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/16/application-pool-mis-configuration-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

via @harbars