January 2008 - Posts

• NJSPUG Meeting Jan. 23 Wednesday night!

  For more information in regards to the ongoings with the NJSPUG check out the website (work in progress) for content downloads, meeting agendas etc...     NJ SHAREPOINT USER GROUP: Wednesday, January 23 Registration:  http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=123585  Reporting in SharePoint 2007– Excel Services, SQL Reports, Dashboards  Guest Speaker: Cary Gottesman  Principal Technology SpecialistMicrosoft  · Using SharePoint’s Report Library for shared access to reports · Demonstrating Excel 2007’s advanced Pivot Tables and Charts with Analysis Services Cubes · Showing Advanced Dashboard and Analytic Capabilities with SharePoint 2007 and Performance Point Server AGENDA: 5:30 PM EAT + GREET Networking, Free Food/Drink 6:00 PM Guest Speaker “Reporting in SharePoint 2007” 6:45 PM  WRAP UP discussion, prize giveaways Cheers, Posted Jan 22 2008, 11:35 AM by jmedero with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS 2007

• Deploying MOSS 2007 SP1 to your environment? Create your SSP first!

  Hey everyone,   Recently was in the midst of building a fresh medium farm environment.  Being that this was a fresh install of this environment I figured I would immediately apply MOSS 2007 SP1 to the environment so that everything is up to date.  I figured that I would first need to create an actual farm via running PSCONFIG (SharePoint Config Wizard) and creating a config DB then joining all of my servers to the farm prior to installing SP1.  So after I finished creating my medium farm via running PSCONFIG i thought now should be a fine time to run the SP1 update and then begin the build out of my farm (SSP creation, Services started, search config etc...).  I ran the installer and installed the binaries then ran PSCONFIG first on my app server running CA which was upgraded successfully.  I then ran PSCONFIG on one of the WFE's in my farm.  It ran until step 9 then failed with a very general error Portal upgrade sequence failed.  I went and checked the Upgrade.log and found a coupel different errors: "[SPWebServerSequence] [ERROR] [1/7/2008 4:36:40 PM]: Action 3.0.4.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPWebServerSequence failed. [SPWebServerSequence] [ERROR] [1/7/2008 4:36:40 PM]: DoResetAcl C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\web.config failed. [SPWebServerSequence] [ERROR] [1/7/2008 4:36:40 PM]:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.EnsureWebServerWebConfigSettings.Upgrade()    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.Upgrade()" These error were not very helpful as you can imagine.  I did some quick digging and troubleshooting and on a lucky hunch I thought is it possible that you need to configure your farms SSP prior to the upgrade?  I quickly ran through the configuration of the Shared Service Provider (SSP) and re-ran the upgrade.  Yessss the upgrade was now successful on my first WFE and also the second WFE as well.  So it turns out that in order to apply SP1 to new environments you first must have provisioned your SSP.  In my defense I did suspect this prior to actually installing SP1 and this hunch saved me mucho time!  I figured I would post this because I did not see much documentation that applies to my situation but if anyone knows differently please leave a comment below.   Cheers, Jason Medero "    .  After some much Posted Jan 08 2008, 10:40 AM by jmedero with 9 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS 2007