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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 encountered an error during setup. One or more required office components failed to complete successfully.
David Lim
I encountered this error today after trying to reinstallnbsp;SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bitnbsp;machine.nbsp; It failed near the end of the binary installation.nbsp; From the log file, I found that the “One or more required office components” failed during thenbsp;setup was the installation of the SQL Servernbsp;Express database for SharePoint.nbsp; And the root cause of the problem was in the Windows Registry, which is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\S [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 2nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Certified!
David Lim
Last weekend I gotnbsp;some pleasant news from Microsoft Certification Program Team.nbsp; I passed twonbsp; Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta exams taken on last May 25, which are a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-667amp;locale=en-us"Exam 70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring/anbsp;and a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-668amp;locale=en-us"Exam 70-668 PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator/a.nbsp; This entitles me fornbsp [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 12th '10 |
AvePoint Content Shield: A Superior Content Filtering Solution for SharePoint 2007
David Lim
One ofnbsp;the requirements thatnbsp;we have to deliver for our clientnbsp;is to implement a content filtering solution for our SharePoint 2007nbsp;farm with the following corenbsp;capabilities:br /ulliThe solution can perform real time scanning of all content prior to upload for instance(s) of forbidden keyword/phrases and file types, and can block or replace the violating content accordingly/liliThe solution can perform scheduled scanning of existing content which have been uploaded to the sit [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 6th '10 |
Replica is inconsistent error in Data Protection Manager 2007
David Lim
I encountered this replica is inconsistentnbsp;error fornbsp;protection status of SharePoint Farm Configuration Databasenbsp;under Protection tabnbsp;inside DPM 2007 Administrator Console.nbsp; The suggestion given by DPM admin console to solve the error is by performing consistency checknbsp;on the farm configuration database.nbsp; However after running the consistency check for several times, it didn't fix the error and consequently all protection activities, like recovery point creationnbsp;f [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10 |
Failed to create the configuration database - User cannot be found
David Lim
I got the above error message when running the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard after installing the binaries on my Windows 7 64-bit machine.nbsp; Then from the event log, itnbsp;was Event ID 104 as below:br /br /emFailed to create the configuration database./embr /em/embr /emAn exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was thrown. Additional exception information: User cannot be found./embr /ema name='more'/aMicrosoft.SharePoint.SPException: User cannot be found.br /emat M [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 23rd '10 |
Running Windows Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7 with Boot to VHD
David Lim
With the MSDNnbsp;release of SharePoint 2010 RTM, I am very excited to start installing it on my notebook,nbsp; running on Windows 7 64 bit with 4GB RAM.nbsp; Then therenbsp;were two options that I considered.nbsp; First optionnbsp;was to install SharePoint 2010 directly on my Windows 7nbsp;64 bitnbsp;notebook and the second optionnbsp;was to install it on my Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD, and then use thenbsp;boot to VHD feature of Windows 7.nbsp; Both options seems good.nbsp; However for portabil [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 28th '10 |
Deploying Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) for SharePoint 2007 Protection and Recovery
David Lim
In order to meet our Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) goals, we have decided to deploy and use Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) for our SharePoint farm,nbsp;rather than using third party tools or manual content databasenbsp;restore approach whichnbsp;needs a longernbsp;restore time.nbsp; From that experiences, belownbsp;is the summary of steps that we have performed in order to set it up for protecting our farm, which consists of web fron [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 are available as public download
David Lim
a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=566d3f55-77a5-4298-bb9c-f55f096b125d"SharePoint Foundation 2010 download/abr /Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 Enterprise; Windows 7 Professional; Windows 7 Ultimate; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2; Windows Vista Service Pack 2br /br /a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=566d3f55-77a5-4298-bb9c-f55f096b125d"SharePoint Designer 2010 64 [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 22nd '10 |
Enabling Information Rights Management in SharePoint 2007 by Integrating with AD RMS
David Lim
Recently we have been asked to enable Information Rights Management (IRM) capability in our SharePoint infrastructure, which consists of three web front-end servers, one excel calculation server, one index server, and two clustered database servers.nbsp; All servers are running on Windows Server 2008 64 bit environment.br /The originalnbsp;plan is to prepare our SharePoint infrastructurenbsp;tonbsp;store IRM-protected documents, where the protection capabilities are embedded in the document.nbsp [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10 |
Configuring SQL Server 2005 Log Shipping for SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Farm
David Lim
As part of the architecture design to provide 99.5% availability for our SharePoint infrastructure, which is equivalent to 3.5 hours downtime per month, we plan for the redundancy and failover between two server farms.nbsp; Thenbsp;primary farm is located innbsp;a main data centre and the secondary farm is located innbsp;a Disaster Recovery centre in the same city.nbsp; Both farms have been setup separately with their own configuration databasenbsp;and Central Administration content database.nbs [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10 |
SharePoint 2007 Farm Migration
David Lim
As part of the company acquisition and platform enhancement, recently we have beennbsp;taskednbsp;to perform a migration fromnbsp;an oldnbsp;SharePoint 2007 farm (running on old company domain) to a new SharePoint 2007 farm (running on new company domain).nbsp; The old SharePoint farm hasnbsp;onenbsp;root site collection withnbsp;fourteennbsp;sites, stored in one big content database.nbsp; On the new SharePoint farm, these fourteen sites will be created as site collections with their own content [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10 |
Error in the Site Data Web Service - No results returned from Search
David Lim
Inbsp;found this error messagenbsp;in the Crawl Log of Search Administration settings in Central Administration site after getting a complaint from the user thatnbsp;they cannot find any results when performing a search on a particular site collection.nbsp; It happened afternbsp;we performed a site migration from one SharePoint 2007nbsp;farmnbsp;to another SharePoint 2007 farm running on two different domains with trust relationship.br /br /The root cause of this error is strongcorrupted SIDs in [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10 |
Welcome to My SharePoint Blog
David Lim
I would like to dedicate this blog as a diary of the exciting and challenging things that I have experienced and encountered while implementing SharePoint projects for my clients. It has been more than four years since I delivered the first SharePoint 2007 project in 2006. A lot of challenging issues have been found and ironed out during this journey. With the release of SharePoint 2010, there will be much more exciting things ahead. br /br /Welcome to this blog!div class="blogger-post-footer"im [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10 |
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