Friday, December 23, 2011

SharePoint 2010 Installation Step-by-Step

 Here are the list of steps/tasks I had performed to install SharePoint 2010 
SharePoint 2010  accounts

Service Account
Role
Admin
SharePoint 2010 Installation account
FarmAdmin
SharePoint 2010 Farm admin account
Services
SharePoint 2010 Service account
Mysite
SharePoint 2010 My Site account
Userprofile
SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service account


Permissions before Installation


Service Accounts
Local admin on Web Front
Local admin on Application Server
SQL Permissions
Admin
Yes
Yes
DB Creator, Security Admin
FarmAdmin
No
No
None
Services
No
No
None
Mysite
No
No
None
Userprofile
No
No
None


Login to the box with Admin account
Check for windows update
Create Downloads folder on the application drive (D)
Copy the SharePoint 2010 installation software
Click on Splash 
Click on Install software prerequisites

Click Next
Click Next
Pre requitse Installation is complete. Click Finish
on the splash screen click on Install SharePoint Server
Enter valid product key
Click Continue
Check I accept the terms of the License Agreements
Click Continue
Choose Server Farm eventhough you have single box so that this can be extended latter
Choose Complete
If you want to change the file location you can specify here. Only the log files will be created at this location as by default SharePoint installs on system drive
Click on Install Now
Run the SharePoint Configuratin Wizard
Click Next
 

Click Yes



Choose create new server farm, click next



Specify Database server, Database Name. Specfiy the Farm admin account and password here

Click Next



Specify the password for Farm set up and security. This is really cool feature in SharePoint 2010

Click Next


If you want any specific port number for your central admin site you need to specify here.

Click Next



Review your settings and click next





Created successfull, click Finish


If you like to participate select yes otherwise no

To configure each service manually, choose "No"



Change the SharePoint root web service to run under Farm admin account


Hope this helps someone for installation of SharePoint 2010

Good Luck

 

Thursday, December 22, 2011

SharePoint 2010 Migration – Using Database attach method

PRE REQUITES


1) Make sure you have enough free disk space for Data/ Back up and Log files on the destination SQL server.
2) Granted DB Owner rights to SharePoint 2010 Install Account on all the Existing/Migrated Content database

COPY/RESTORE CONTENT DATABASE

Copy 2007 Content Database back up copy to the new SQL server.
Restore the Databases in the new SharePoint 2010 SQL environment.
VERIFYING THE CONTENT DATABASENext step is to verify the Content Database using Test-SPContentDatabase Windows PowerShell cmdlet
This cmdlet will test and verify that any custom components that are required for this content database has been installed and configured in the SharePoint 2010 environment.

Test-SPContentDatabase –Name <database name> -WebApplication <URL>

Launch the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and type the above command, ensuring you have entered your
Information

1) Make sure you have enough free disk space for Data/ Back up and Log files on the destination SQL server.



Test-SPContentDatabase –Name WSS_Content_ABC -WebApplication http:/abcpoint


Review and Resolve the issues if any.

MOUNT CONTENT DATABASE
Next step is to mount the Content Database using Mount-SPContentDatabase Windows PowerShell cmdlet
This cmdlet will mount/Attach content database to the web application.

Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name "WSS_CONTENT_XYZ" -DatabaseServer "SQLSERVER" -WebApplication http://abc/


Review and Resolve the issues if any.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Security Overview for Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode

When you configure a report server to run in SharePoint integrated mode, the report server uses the authentication provider and permissions defined in the SharePoint Web application to control access to report server items and operations.

Windows Integrated Security Using Kerberos

If the SharePoint Web application is configured for Windows Authentication using Kerberos, the connection from the SharePoint Web application to the report server can use the impersonated or delegated credentials of the current Windows user. By using Windows integrated security with Kerberos and identity delegation, you can eliminate the classic "double-hop" issue wherein Windows credentials expire after a single connection

Windows or Forms Authentication and Trusted Accounts

If the SharePoint Web application is configured for Forms authentication or for Windows Authentication using NTLM, the connection to the report server is sent across the network under a predefined trusted account that has permission to impersonate a SharePoint user on the report server.

Reference link for this post: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283324.aspx

Configuring Reporting services for SharePoint 2010 Integration

I installed and Configured Reporting services for SharePoint 2010 Integration using the following links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326356.aspx

Install and Configure SharePoint Integration on Multiple Servers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677365.aspx