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A simple install of SQL Server 2012 for SharePoint Server 2013 or 2010

One of the things that comes up in my SharePoint Administrator classes a lot is people who are looking for an easy guide to just get SQL Server up and running so they can deploy SharePoint. They aren't looking for best practices or optimal configurations just cut-to-the-chase, what they should do...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Sep 17 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Install, How Do I, SharePoint, SQL
Health Check - Happy New Year to you and your SharePoint servers!

Happy New Year. Hopefully you have recovered from all of the good times and/or you got some rest on the break. I figured many of us have SharePoint 2010 deployments at this point that are mature. Which is awesome. But one thing I know about mature SharePoint farms is we often take them for granted. Below...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Tue, Jan 3 2012
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint
After SharePoint 2010 database attach upgrade alerts have the wrong URLs

Database attach upgrades seem to be the norm these days for customers upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. I am assuming the reason for this is because they are very flexible and generally work pretty well. One of the flexible things about these type of upgrades is you can change your web...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Aug 22 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Upgrade, How Do I, SharePoint, PowerShell
Using PowerShell to export all solutions from your SharePoint 2010 farm and other fun

Yesterday my client presented a fun little challenge. They have one 2010 production farm they have been using for the last couple of months. On it they have about 25 WSPs that their developers have created. (Insert funny developer joke here. Probably something about a 1000 developers, a keyboard, and...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Wed, May 4 2011
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint, PowerShell
PowerShell doesn’t show all of your SharePoint 2010 content databases

Today SharePoint managed to freak me out for a few minutes. I was looking at a customer's farm and when I ran the PowerShell cmdlet Get-SPContentDatabase it was only returning one content databases even though my farm has two content databases. The output looked like this. So then I thought about...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Wed, Apr 27 2011
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint
Search Database GUID issue

So in the quest to have no GUIDs I wrote the blog post How to remove the GUIDs from the SharePoint search service application databases to great fan fair. After reviewing my VM and other servers I have performed the steps on I have found the error message below. (Text and image included to help with...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Dec 6 2010
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Error Messages, SharePoint, GUIDs
Rename the SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint database to remove the GUID

When I build a farm with the intention of not having any GUIDs I use the Central Administration page Manage Service Applications to create most of my service applications. And for most of the service application that have databases the GUI gives me the chance to name the database, which means I can avoid...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Thu, Nov 4 2010
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint, GUIDs
Getting rid of GUIDs in SharePoint 2010 database names

It is like your typical battle of good vs. evil. SharePoint 2010 has a secret plot to run the world out of GUIDs and between you and me I think it has a good shot of accomplishing its goal. Well, me and boy wonder (aka Todd ) have seen the pain and suffering they are trying to evoke and we have plan...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Tue, Oct 26 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Install, How Do I, SharePoint, GUIDs
Configuring profile import in SharePoint 2010

So I keep smashing my head into this and it drives me nuts. So I am going to try to throw together some quick nuggets. I have gotten this to successfully work about a dozen times so I have hopefully seen all of the craziness. I have also worked with Todd Klindt to compile some of these notes. The first...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Fri, Jul 9 2010
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint, User profiles
Install Guide: SP2 for SharePoint (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007)

Service Pack 2 was released today (as I am guessing the whole world knows by now). Instead of making that profound announcement I would recommend you check out this post on the SharePoint Team blog for the official announcement. I will spare you the crazy details other than you should install it. J Just...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Tue, Apr 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Install, How Do I, SharePoint
Fixing MOSS Search

Had a client today (last week now) who broke search all the way. And in their attempts to straighten it out they changed some pieces that weren't broken. Then while they were in the process of trying to put it all back together I called and said let me at it so they just stopped. Needless to say...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Apr 13 2009
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Error Messages, SharePoint, SSP
Install Guide: February Cumulative Updates

Whoops... because i am a big dummy I screwed up this post. Sorry, hope you weren't using it. :) Install SharePoint SP2 now instead. Sorry Shane SharePoint Consulting

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Wed, Mar 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Install, How Do I, SharePoint
InfoPath Form displayed on anonymous site causes login prompt

Had this one pop up for a second time today so thought I would blog it this time. Client created a public website for baseball signups. It was a simply publishing portal with anonymous enabled. He then created an InfoPath form and set it up to generate an email with the info from the form. He published...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Jan 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Error Messages, SharePoint
Windows Server 2008 WFE will not allow large file uploads

I had a client a couple weeks ago who upgraded from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 using the database attach method. This means the MOSS farm was built on new hardware which we chose Windows Server 2008 for. This was a very challenging upgrade for several reasons but primarly because the 2003 site database was...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Wed, Dec 17 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Error Messages, SharePoint, w2k8
Installer/Uninstaller help

This isn't just SharePoint but just general server/pc help. Way to often people call/email/IM me about problems uninstalling software, usually after the uninstaller crapped out half way through the process or they hit cancel because it was taking too long to run. Or the reverse of that the install...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Tue, Oct 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Links
A free admin webcast by me

Just click on the pretty link of me. You do have to register to see the webcast. The description is: At a recent SharePoint conference, Bill Gates claimed that "SharePoint is the fastest-growing server product Microsoft has ever had." What about your organization? Is SharePoint beginning to...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Oct 20 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Links, SharePoint, Speaking
Whole farm is down because timer jobs are not running

One of my clients this week managed to take his entire farm offline this week by upsetting the timer service. First a little background – currently they are scrambling to get SharePoint back to a happy state. Why? Well, as happens with lots of customers, SharePoint is too successful. When we originally...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Thu, Oct 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Error Messages, SharePoint
Another Error Message – Access Denied on Profile Import

I noticed the error message below repeatedly in event viewer and realized it was happening every time a profile import was happening. Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Office Server General Event ID: 7888 Date: 6/27/2008 Time: 11:37:17 AM User: N/A Computer: ServerName...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Mon, Jun 30 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, Error Messages, SharePoint, SSP
List Size Reporting

Updated 7/27/08 - I realized the pictures didn't show up the first time. Have you ever used the feature Storage space allocation from the site collection administrator's menu? That is a pretty nice view of all of the document libraries in my site collection and their size. You can also click...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Fri, Jun 20 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint
What makes a “good” SharePoint consultant?

In the TechNet forums there is a thread that got off topic and somehow came to this question. "What makes a good SharePoint consultant?" Since I felt the answer to the question and the tone of the conversation were so off base I started to write a reply. I also had another well respected SharePoint...

Posted to The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac by Shane on Wed, May 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: How Do I, SharePoint

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