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Prometric Testing Centres in the UK

November 16, 2013 by Joel Jeffery

Here’s a map with points of interest culled from Prometic’s site, hosted by those chaps at BatchGeo.com.

View Prometric Sites UK in a full screen map

Although you can book your exams easily enough at www.prometric.com, trying to find out if there’s one near you can be painful, to say the least.

This map shows all of the UK Prometric testing centres that hold Microsoft exams, as at 16 November 2013.

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Scripting SharePoint 2013 Installation with PowerShell

August 23, 2013 by Joel Jeffery

Video Walkthrough: SharePoint 2013 Installation with PowerShell on Windows 2012

In this video, I walk through a the start of a scripted installation of SharePoint 2013, including how to install SharePoint 2013 prerequisites from an offline install location, such as a fileshare.

In the first part of this series, we walk through:

  • Setup Accounts and Permissions
  • Windows Roles and Features
  • Prerequisite Installer from the Command Line
  • Disabling the Loopback Check

The full series of SharePoint 2013 Administration and Configuration videos comprises 9.5 hours of training, and is available here: http://bit.ly/sp13videos for purchase as immediate download or on DVD from $99. Tell your friends!

Accounts and Permissions

Your SharePoint setup account needs to have dbcreator and securityadmin server roles on your SQL Server. It also needs to be a local administrator of your SharePoint server to-be.

Windows Roles and Features for SharePoint 2013

Your server needs to have both Application Server and Web Server Windows roles. You can achieve this with the PowerShell cmd-let

Add-WindowsFeature Application-Server,Web-Server -IncludeAllSubFeature

If you need to specify a path to the place you installed Windows from – or a new SXS location – you can use the -Source parameter to pass in the new path.

SharePoint 2013 Prerequisite Installer from the Command Line

To install the prerequisites from the command line, you can either create a file called prerequisiteinstaller.arguments.txt and copy this into the same folder as your prerequisiteinstaller.exe file extracted from the setup image, or you can pass the following text as arguments directly when you call prerequisiteinstaller.exe from the command line.

/PowerShell:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\WINDOWS6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu” /NETFX:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\dotNetFx45_Full_x86_x64.exe” /IDFX:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu” /sqlncli:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\sqlncli.msi” /Sync:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\Synchronization.msi” /AppFabric:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe” /IDFX11:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\MicrosoftIdentityExtensions-64.msi” /MSIPCClient:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\setup_msipc_x64.msi” /WCFDataServices:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\WcfDataServices.exe” /KB2671763:”prerequisiteinstallerfiles\AppFabric1.1-RTM-KB2671763-x64-ENU.exe”

Disabling the Loopback Check

SharePoint 2013 makes extensive use of calling web services from the server on which they’re installed – for instance the Claims to Windows Token Service. This will cause the Windows Server Loopback Check to fail, and cause a continual cycle of authentication requests. To avoid this, you need to disable the loopback check. There are two options. You can either disable it for a specific domain name, by editing the BackConnectionHostNames registry value, or by switching it off entirely with the following PowerShell:

New-ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa -Name “DisableLoopbackCheck” -Value “1” -PropertyType dword

 

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Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
He has over 20 years' experience with SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

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

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