SpinPlate » working http://spinplate.com Just keeping the plates from falling. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Memoirs of a SharePoint 2010 pilot install http://spinplate.com/2011/02/memoirs-of-a-sharepoint-2010-pilot-install/ http://spinplate.com/2011/02/memoirs-of-a-sharepoint-2010-pilot-install/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:36:34 +0000 PlateSpinner http://spinplate.com/2011/02/memoirs-of-a-sharepoint-2010-pilot-install/ Continue reading →]]> I had a one-day quick gig yesterday where the client had a blanked VM ready and an existing SQL server. He wants to show his users and stakeholders what SharePoint 2010 looks like but doesn’t really know what his or their needs are. I assumed that, like all unplanned and undocumented installations, there would be some unforeseen roadblock and I would need more than the one day I was given. Also, I assumed that if the client wanted to drive or backseat drive the install that it would take much longer.

I was wrong. It went well. And he had a working 2010 farm with all the basic service apps in under 2 hours.

Here are some points to remember when doing a pilot (or any kind of) install:

  • Create all of your service accounts ahead of time. (You DO use service accounts, right??)
  • Give the setup account admin rights on the SQL servers too and not just the SharePoint servers (this wasn’t necessary for MOSS). If it’s SQL 2008, make the setup account a sysadmin in SQL. (The farm account still just needs “secadmin” and “dbcreator” roles in SQL.)
  • Remember to turn off the “Default Web Site” in IIS. Also change the bindings so that the port is something other than 80.
  • Get a static IP
  • Don’t forget to disable the loopback check.
  • If your SQL server hosts multiple projects and not just your SharePoint farm, consider using some kind of prefix in front of the database names as you are setting up SharePoint. For example, if you put “SP2010_” at the beginning of all the SQL databases you use, your SharePoint databases will be nicely bunched together when you use SQL Management Studio
  • When setting up profile synchronization to Active Directory, try to only select OUs that have actual user accounts in them. Avoid the OUs or containers that have service accounts. Nobody wants to store 150+ profiles for service accounts.

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]]> http://spinplate.com/2011/02/memoirs-of-a-sharepoint-2010-pilot-install/feed/ 0 I’m not dead yet. I’m feeling happyyyyyy. http://spinplate.com/2010/12/im-not-dead-yet-im-feeling-happyyyyyy/ http://spinplate.com/2010/12/im-not-dead-yet-im-feeling-happyyyyyy/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:19:00 +0000 PlateSpinner http://spinplate.com/?p=98 Continue reading →]]> Merry holiday dear readers and search engine bots!

My employer is assigning me away from my long standing project (2.5 years) after this week. Starting in January, I’ll be working on…. something else. I don’t even know what, yet. But it doesn’t matter.

What this means for you is that I will have more freedom and time to develop my career and knowledge and that means MORE BLOG POSTING. (yay!)

Stay tuned…

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]]> http://spinplate.com/2010/12/im-not-dead-yet-im-feeling-happyyyyyy/feed/ 0 Take this job and… http://spinplate.com/2010/03/take-this-job-and/ http://spinplate.com/2010/03/take-this-job-and/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:29 +0000 PlateSpinner http://spinplate.com/2010/03/take-this-job-and/ Continue reading →]]> hotdogcartI know a very talented and successful developer who definitely makes six figures in annual salary.  But every now and again, he’ll have a really tough day and he’ll turn to me and say, “I think I’ll quit my job and open up a hotdog stand.”

I’m having one of those days.

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