March 2007 - Posts

• Have a SharePoint question? I have the answer!

  Well now that I have finally finished up a few bigger projects and I actually have a few mins(few as in 30mins).  I decided last night that I would jump on the new MSDN forum and see if I could answer some questions and help out some fellow SharePointers.  For the life of me I couldn't find the forums (probably because I have been so busy I have not been there for over 2 months...yikes!).  So after looking for a bit it wasn't very obvious to me where I could find them I mean it was probably me not looking in the right places.  I mean i could find the TechNet newsgroups without a problem but I wanted to find the new MSDN forums (personal preference I like the forum experience).  So after about 5 mins I gave up and asked my fellow New Jersey SharePointer Bob Fox where the heck they were.  He quickly responded and provided me with exactly what I was looking for.  So for my reference and my blog readers below is the link to the new MSDN forums for SharePoint.  They are split up in some very helpful categories so post in the proper place.  If you have a question or a concern my suggestion is that you search for it before posting your question because you might find that others are having the same difficulty and the answer has already been given. The SharePoint MSDN forums are located HERE Also check out the SharePoint Community Portal site which literally has EVERYTHING you need! Thanks Alpesh for the great reminder! See ya there! Cheers! Posted Mar 20 2007, 07:25 PM by jmedero with 8 comment(s)

• Failed to create configuration database...

  So I just got back from the MVP summit!  What an awesome time with a bunch of great people!  I will be posting a summary of the people I have met and of course paintball stories sometime tomorrow but first let’s get to business.  I have been running into an error lately that was somewhat new to me when creating the configuration database when running the PSCONFIG wizard otherwise known as the SharePoint configuration wizard.  You run this wizard after you have installed MOSS 2007 and are ready to provision your configuration database.  I ran the wizard and it got about to step two and quickly failed with this error:     "Failed to create the configuration database. An exception of type System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Some or all identity references could not be translated. System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException: Some or all identity references could not be translated. I check the long log that came along with the error and searched for the letters "Err"....  I did a bit more digging and found that it may be an issue with the application pool identity that was communicating with the SQL server for provisioning of the configuration database.  Because I was setting up a medium farm the SQL server was on a separate box.  I checked the application pool identity "SharePoint central administration V3" and it was set to "network service" yikes!!  So after about 1 hour searching through log files, checking SQL permissions it came down to the application pool which had the wrong identity.  Once I changed the application pool to the correct service account that I was using all was installed without any more problems!  One thing to note is that the Turns out this specific server was previously being used as the sandbox environment and previously had MOSS installed on it.  When MOSS was uninstalled for some reason the application pool was left and when I reinstalled MOSS it was using the same app pool and its identity.  So my hope is that users who receive this error message will be able to find this post and solve their problem in minutes...hence the obvious title :) Cheers!   Posted Mar 19 2007, 04:02 AM by jmedero with 21 comment(s)