IIS 7 / IIS 7.5 Security Best Practices (nothing official about it)

by vivek 7/4/2011 10:46:35 AM
We have IIS 7 released for quite some time now and we haven’t seen any best practices document released by Microsoft IIS 7 team. IIS 6 have good document in place and even though IIS 7 is secure by default, we need some document to keep us in-check. Here are few I prepared for myself: Installing IIS 7 / 7.5 Install IIS 7 / 7.5 with minimum required components. If a feature is not required e.g. Basic Authentication or Directory Browsing, do not install it. If you are using scripts to... [More]


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Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search 2010–Part 6

by vivek 10/14/2010 9:00:00 AM
Today we will create FAST Search Query SSA which will provide query results from the content that is crawled by FAST Search Content SSA. Create and setup Query SSA Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Home Page, under Application Management and click Manage Service Applications In Manage Service Applications page, click New –> Search Service Applications In Create New Search Service Application page, fill in the details (here’s wh... [More]


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Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search 2010–Part 5

by vivek 10/13/2010 9:00:00 AM
Now with all the software's installed and configured, let us now create and setup Content SSA and Query SSA. Content SSA crawls the content and feed it into FAST Search back-end while Query SSA provides the query results from the content that is crawled by Content SSA. Create and setup Content SSA Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Home Page, under Application Management and click Manage Service Applications In Manage Service Applications page, click New –>... [More]


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Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search 2010–Part 4

by Vivek 10/11/2010 8:01:00 PM
Let us now install and configure FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint 2010. Since I am out of resources we will be deploying a stand-alone FAST Search 2010, if possible I will add another FAST Search 2010 node to the farm and deploy some services on the same. Installing FAST Search 2010 Insert FAST Server 2010 installation media, you will get a splash screen as shown below Click on Install software prerequisites –> click Next –> accept License Agreement a... [More]


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Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search 2010–Part 3

by Vivek 9/29/2010 2:30:00 AM
In my previous two posts, we have installed SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 and Office Web App 2010. Let is now run the configuration wizard and finish the SharePoint Configuration part. Configuring SharePoint 2010 Continuing from where we left last.. You can select the “Run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard now” from Run Configuration Wizard as per the screenshot shown in previous post. OR Click Start –> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products –> right... [More]


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Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search 2010–Part 2

by Vivek 9/27/2010 4:22:00 PM
Once we have done through the installation of SQL Server 2008 R2, we will now need to follow the article KB 968872 to open the required ports on the server to connect to an instance of SQL Server. Copy the text below, paste it in a notepad and name the file OpenSqlServerPort.bat. Run it as an Administrator in the command prompt. @echo ========= SQL Server Ports =================== @echo Enabling SQLServer default instance port 1433 netsh firewall set portopening TCP 1433 "SQLServer... [More]


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Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search 2010–Part 1

by Vivek 9/25/2010 4:28:00 PM
I am attempting to install/configure SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search in my virtual environment. We will walk through step-by-step in the process and we will also configure FAST Search as a default Search for SharePoint 2010. This post is a little background on the preparation steps in creating the environment. Server Identification: Role Name DC WIN-DC SQL Server 2008 R2 WIN-DC ... [More]


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MOSS 2007: Failed to create sample data. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was thrown. Provisioning did not succeed. The site template was not provisioned successfully.

by vivek 8/24/2010 11:49:15 AM
I have been studying SharePoint for sometime and thought of installing SharePoint 2007 on my Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Finally, it gave me something to write about . During the installation process, SharePoint 2007 SP2 setup failed with an error Careful look at the configuration tasks showed it actually failed in step 8 As always I thought of looking at the issue further and checked the diagnostics file Task evalprovision has failed with an unknown exception Exception: M... [More]


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MOSS | IIS 7 | Sharepoint | Troubleshooting

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage–after installing KB977377

by Vivek 7/21/2010 3:19:00 PM
Few days back, one of my colleague faced the above error when he accessed the web site that was hosted on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 machine which had IIS 7 installed and configured. Not sure what changed, but the error was very crude and didn’t give any information on what was causing it. This is a simple web service application which required client certificate authentication. With little or no information about what caused the issue we started troubleshooting the issue right f... [More]


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Did you know: How to recreate “Default Web Site” in IIS 7 / 7.5

by vivek 5/27/2010 4:27:30 AM
Many a times you will find people delete the “Default Web Site” and then they install some application which require “Default Web Site”. Now, once you have deleted the Web Site how can you recreate or undelete the Web Site. Not possible unless you have a backup. Fortunately, there are workarounds in IIS 6 / 7 / 7.5 through which you can recreate the deleted “Default Web Site”. Does that mean you accidentally deleted a working Web Site and you can recreate it, the answer is “NO”. You can only re... [More]


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