Migration by the numbers – Step 14

Step 14 in a series of posts documenting the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 upgrade process on SBS 2008. This is based on the document:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2dc66a0f-f840-4b29-93d3-13db70c85cba&;;displayLang=en

 

Previous steps:

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Step 6

Step 7

Step 8

Step 9

Step 10

Step 11

Step 12

Step 13

 

Step 14 – Install Windows Small Business Server 2008 Update Rollup 4

 

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In a browser visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=199703

 

In the search box enter 979454 and press Search.

 

For the item Update Rollup 4 for Windows Small Business Server 2008 (KB979454) select Add.

 

Click View basket.

 

Click Download.

 

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Browse to a folder where you want to save the file and click Continue.

 

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Open the location where you saved the download and open the folder called Update Rollup 4 for Windows Small Business Server 2008 (KB979454).

 

Double click the CAB file located there. Double click the MSP file this displays and enter a location on your disk to extract the file.

 

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Right mouse click on this extracted file and select Apply from the menu that appears.

 

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Note that after the process is complete you may need to complete a manual crawl of your data to update the search indexes.

Need to Know podcast – Episode 9

The next CIAOPS Need to Know podcast (Episode 9) with Jeff Alexander from Microsoft Australia.

The details of the podcast are:

 

http://www.ciaops.com/n2k – Episode 9 = 50MB (53 mins)

 

or via direct download:

 

http://bit.ly/cia-n2k9

 

Jeff and I discuss Windows Home Server and Vail as well as Windows Phone 7.

 

So let me know what you think and if you are interested on being on the show please also contact me (director@ciaops.com) as I am always looking for people to talk about business and technology.

Migration by the numbers – Step 13

Step 13 in a series of posts documenting the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 upgrade process on SBS 2008. This is based on the document:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2dc66a0f-f840-4b29-93d3-13db70c85cba&;;displayLang=en

 

Previous steps:

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Step 12

 

Step 13 – Recreate the original internal website environment

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Click Start | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

 

Accept the UAC.

 

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Under the System Settings heading select Manage services on server.

 

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You should see that the Microsoft Foundation Search is currently Stopped. Click the Start hyperlink in the Action column.

 

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Enter account details into the Content Access Account area.

 

(*Authors note – this doesn’t have to be a domain administrator account. The account you choose will be given full read only rights to the site. It is recommended that you utilize a dedicated account with appropriate security).

 

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Scroll down the screen and press the OK button.

 

(*Authors note – You may wish to adjust the default indexing schedule to something more often).

 

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You should your configuration being saved.

 

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When complete you will see that the SharePoint Foundation Help Search is started.

 

(*Authors note – You see a service of a different name listed. As long as it says Started your search is enabled).

 

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Select System Settings from Central Administration menu on the left hand side.

 

Select Configure incoming e-mail settings from under the E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS) section.

 

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Press OK to accept the warning message about an SMTP service not being installed.

 

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For Enable Incoming E-Mail choose Yes.

 

For Incoming E-Mail Server Display Address enter companyweb.

 

For E-Mail Drop Folder enter c:\inetpub\mailroot\drop.

 

Scroll down the screen and press OK to save the configuration.

 

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Under E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS) select Configure outgoing e-mail settings.

 

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In Outbound SMTP server enter SharePointSMTPServer.

 

In the From address and Reply-to address enter companywebadmin@domain-name (where domain-name is the name of your organizations Internet domain name).

 

Ensure that Character set is 65001 (unicode UTF-8).

 

Select OK to save the changes.

 

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Select System Settings and under Farm Management select Configure alternate access mappings.

 

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Now select Edit Public URLs from the menu.

 

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Click on the box No Selection in the top right of the screen. From the menu that appears select Change Alternate Access Mapping Collection.

 

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Click on SBS SharePoint.

 

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The box should now read SBS SharePoint.

 

Set the Intranet box to http://companyweb.

 

If you have already run the Set up your Internet address task in the SBS Console set the Internet address to https://:987.

 

If you have not run the Set up you Internet address task in the SBS Console set the Internet address to http://sites:987.

 

Press the Save button to continue.

 

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You should now see the additional URLs you just configured displayed.

 

Return to the main Central Administration screen.

 

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Select Security from the menu on the left.

 

From under General Security select Specify authentication providers.

 

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Click in the Web Application box in the top right of the screen and select Change Web Application from the menu that appears.

 

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Select SBS SharePoint from the window that appears.

 

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Locate the IIS Authentication Settings section which is current set to NTLM. Select Negotiate (Kerberos).

 

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The following warning will appear. Click OK to continue.

 

Scroll down the page and save the changes.

 

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You will then be returned to the Authentication providers screen.

Hosting providers stepping up to SharePoint 2010

Although I still run locally based SharePoint servers (mainly for testing) the majority of my production SharePoint stuff lives in the cloud via a hosting provider. I’ve been using the same company for over 2 years now without an issue and was really excited to see that they are now offering SharePoint 2010 hosting.

 

Without hesitation I decided to upgrade my main SharePoint site to SharePoint 2010. As you can see from below this site includes the CIAOPS Cloud Portal and the site for subscribers to my SharePoint Guide.

 

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The migration was messy simply because the hosting provider doesn’t provide a direct upgrade of the site. I also didn’t have access to a single tool that could read a v3 site and transfer it directly to a 2010 site. I’m sure there are commercial offerings out but for this once off project I was happy to do a bit more manual work.

 

It took a little while to do but it did me a chance to do a tidy up of the information as well as some reorganization which it needed so there are always benefits when you start fresh. However now it is all complete and running on SharePoint 2010.

 

If you are a subscriber to my SharePoint or Cloud guides then you should have already received an email detailing how you bow gain access to the information as part of your subscription. You’ll also find more features rolled out with these sites as I get more experience with exactly what can and can’t be done with hosted SharePoint 2010.

Mobile SharePoint 2010

One of the great features that will be available in Windows Phone 7 will be direct integration into SharePoint 2010 and the use of Mobile Office 2010. If you are a big user of SharePoint this is probably a very good reason to give the new Windows Phone 7 a close look.

 

Until I get that chance probably the best idea of what the experience will be like can be seen in the following video.

 

Optimizing Windows SharePoint Search

One of the major complaints I hear from people when they implement Windows SharePoint Services v3 is that it is limited in what it can index and search. That is certainly true with the following files generally not being indexed by Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 out of the box:

– Office 2007 documents (i.e. docx, xlsx, pptx, etc)
– Adobe Acrobat PDFs
– Outlook MSG files
– TIFF files

to mention just a few. What most people don’t realize is that Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 can be configured to index these documents making them available to all users. The problem is that there generally isn’t a single source of good information about configuring this, that is until now!

This information has always been available in my SharePoint Guide (www.wssops.com) but I have now decided to create a new publication called:

Windows SharePoint MasterClass: Optimizing Search

available in eBook format for only $29.95. The details of the publication are:

This book is designer for those that want to take Windows SharePoint Services v 3.0 Search beyond the default. Did you know that Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 could index the contents of Adobe Acrobat documents and TIFF files? It normally can’t do either of these by default but the information inside this book will show you how to that and more. You’ll learn how to configure Search Server Express 2008 (free from Microsoft) to index information beyond SharePoint sites including Exchange Public folders, web sites and network shares. Implemented correctly Search Server Express can provide you the power of an internal search engine allowing you to make better and faster use of your digital information. If you want to make the most of Windows SharePoint Services then this book is for you.
I working a number of additional titles in this MasterClass series to help people take Windows SharePoint Services beyond the default install and get the most from the product.

If you have a topic you’d like to see appear in an upcoming MasterClass title please let me know (director@ciaops.com).

Migration by the numbers – Step 11

Step 11 in a series of posts documenting the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 upgrade process on SBS 2008. This is based on the document:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2dc66a0f-f840-4b29-93d3-13db70c85cba&;;displayLang=en

 

Previous steps:

 

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Step 7

Step 8

Step 9

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Step 11 – Remove the existing content database

 

Run the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration via Start | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

 

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Accept the UAC.

 

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Select Manage content databases from under the Application Management heading.

 

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Click on the Database name which is a hyperlink.

 

(*Authors note – there will normally only be a single database and it will have some GUID after WSS_Content_).

 

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Scroll down the screen.

 

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In the Remove Content Database section check the option Remove content database.

 

Scroll down the screen and select the OK button.

 

(*Authors note – there is no additional warning here, once you click OK the existing content database is removed from this site).

 

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(*Authors note – you should now see no content databases listed as shown above).

Migration by the numbers–Step 12

Step 12 in a series of posts documenting the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 upgrade process on SBS 2008. This is based on the document:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2dc66a0f-f840-4b29-93d3-13db70c85cba&;;displayLang=en

 

Previous steps:

 

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

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Step 6

Step 7

Step 8

Step 9

Step 10

Step 11

 

Step 12 – Connect the ShareWebDb content database

Run an administrator privileged command prompt at the server console.

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Select Start and type CMD into the Search box. From the list that appears, right mouse click on CMD and select Run as administrator from the menu that appears.

 

Accept the UAC

 

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Change directory to c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\14\bin.

 

Type the following command:

 

stsadm –o addcontentdb –url http://localhost –databasename sharewebdb

 

(*Authors note – You should now see a percentage complete number displayed, as shown above. This is indication of the database conversion process from WSS v3 to SharePoint Foundation 2010. The duration of this conversion will depend on the hardware as well as the database size).

 

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(*Authors note – when the process is complete you should see a message like shown above indicating Operation completed successfully).