Archives for March 2011

Unattended Install of SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites (optionally) without an Internet Connection

March 14, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

Not all servers have Internet access, and usually you want to script the installation of a SharePoint server. For these reasons, you can drive the Prerequisite Installer (prerequisitesinstaller.exe) from the command line or via an arguments file, and tell it the location of each of the prerequisites from a place where you have already downloaded them.

Using it from the command line is pretty straightforward. You can pass in each of the following switches and then the location to the downloaded setup package:

/unattended
/SQLNCli:"D:\MyPath\sqlncli.msi"
/ChartControl:"D:\MyPath\MSChart.exe"
/W2K8SP2:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.0-KB948465-X64.exe"
/NETFX35SP1:"D:\MyPath\dotnetfx35setup.exe"
/PowerShell:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.0-KB968930-x64.msu"
/KB976394:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.0-KB976394-x64.msu"
/KB976462:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.1-KB976462-v2-x64.msu"
/IDFXR2:"D:\MyPath\Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu"
/Sync:"D:\MyPath\Synchronization.msi"
/FilterPack:"D:\MyPath\FilterPackx64.exe"
/ADOMD:"D:\MyPath\SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi"
/ReportingServices:"D:\MyPath\rsSharePoint.msi"
/Speech:"D:\MyPath\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi"
/SpeechLPK:"D:\MyPath\MSSpeech_SR_en-US_TELE.msi"

Full instructions are available on TechNet, but as always there are some gotchas. If you get the following error when you run the Prerequisite Installer:

This is usually indicative of two problems. Check:

That you’re running the Prerequisite Installer from the folder that contains it – e.g. the root of where you copied the CD to.
Each line in your PrerequisiteInstaller.Arguments.txt file has a space at the end. (Yes, flakey, I know!)

SharePoint Visio Stencils for IT Pros and Administrators

March 3, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

I recently had a question from one of my students:

Every time I create a Visio diagram for a SharePoint farm, I start with an existing diagram and use the shapes from that. Are there any Visio stencils for SharePoint?

Yes! There are! You can download a set of Visio stencils for architectural drawings of SharePoint farms from Microsoft here: http://bit.ly/spstencil.

Example

The stencils let you produce diagrams like this one from TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx

Installation

You need to unzip this to your My Shapes folder under your Documents folder, e.g.:

"%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Shapes"

#spthingaday

#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folde

#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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#spthingaday 001 - Governance. Avoid death by file

#spthingaday 001 - Governance. Avoid death by fileshare #SharePoint, Teams, Planner and #Office365 projects need executive sponsorship.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 001 - Governance. Avoid death by fileshare #SharePoint, Teams, Planner and #Office365 projects need executive sponsorship.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the

#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the Search Topology. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. The Search Service in SharePoint on-premise is made up of six components.

Crawl, Content Processing, Index, Analytics, Query and Administration.

Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

To make any one Search component support high availability, you need to make sure there are at least two servers in your Farm running it.

SharePoint Server 2010 had only 3 types of component, and Microsoft let you manage their placement via Central Admin, in the browser.

From SharePoint 2013 onwards, this was deemed too difficult to express graphically.

For SharePoint 2013 and 2016, topology changes need to be made via PowerShell.

Tomorrow, we'll look at just what PowerShell cmd-lets you need to use.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the Search Topology. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. The Search Service in SharePoint on-premise is made up of six components.

Crawl, Content Processing, Index, Analytics, Query and Administration.

Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

To make any one Search component support high availability, you need to make sure there are at least two servers in your Farm running it.

SharePoint Server 2010 had only 3 types of component, and Microsoft let you manage their placement via Central Admin, in the browser.

From SharePoint 2013 onwards, this was deemed too difficult to express graphically.

For SharePoint 2013 and 2016, topology changes need to be made via PowerShell.

Tomorrow, we'll look at just what PowerShell cmd-lets you need to use.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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