Monthly Archives: September 2013

SBS2008 recreate the internal and external companyweb site

In order to recreate the SharePoint site (companyweb) that will be compatible with the SBS console follow the next steps:

  1. Using central administration delete the webapp(port 987) ,
  2. In IIS Manager delete the IIS site (SBS SharePoint) and the AppPool(SBS Sharepoint AppPool)
  3. Recreate the webapp on port 987 using the following parameters:
    1. Create a new IIS web site, and then, for the description, type SBS SharePoint (case sensitive!!).
    2. Port, type 987
    3. Host header, type sites.
    4. Path, type C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Bin\webapp\InternalWebsite
    5. Authentication provider, click NTLM.
    6. Allow Anonymous, click No.
    7. Use SSL, click Yes.
    8. Create a new application pool, and then for the application pool name, type SBS Sharepoint AppPool (case sensitive!!!)

SharePoint and RBS Maintainer – connection string issues

Recently I have seen an issue with RBS Maintainer that was failing during the execution of the RBS garbage collection.

Issue:

Every time when executing the following command it was failing without deleting the orphan BLOBs

C:Program Files\Microsoft SQL Remote Blob Storage 10.50\Maintainer\Microsoft.Data.SqlRemoteBlobs.Maintainer.exe” -ConnectionStringName RBSMaintainerConnection -Operation ConsistencyCheck GarbageCollection Maintenance -ConsistencyCheckForStores ForceFinalize -GarbageCollectionPhases rdo -ConsistencyCheckMode b

Errors in the SharePoint logs: User does not have permission to perform this action. You do not have permission to run the RECONFIGURE statement.

and a lot of Access Denied at the SQL level (even if the account was added with sysadmin rights)

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SharePoint 2010 and Kerberos configuration

Before starting Kerberos configuration with your SharePoint 2010 environment I recommend reviewing the following articles:

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/B/F/BBF0C6F3-6E36-4979-8C43-DE165AD7AE34/SP2010%20Kerberos%20Guide.docx Configure Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint 2010 Products

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502602(v=office.14).aspx Configuring Kerberos authentication: Core configuration (SharePoint Server 2010)

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2722087 How to configure Claim to Windows Token Services in SharePoint 2010 with Kerberos Authentication

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231678.aspx Claims to Windows Token Service (C2WTS)
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