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I very recently had the same issue with Nintex Workflow 2010: It wouldn't install properly from my App server because this service was turned off.
Other than that, yes it's a good way to turn an application server into a true application server, and prevent it from running and serving the content web applications and IIS sites.
Have a look at the ...
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This is what I follow. The most important thing to note is if you screw up somewhere along the way you have to blow away your service application before trying again.
Update
Very rarely I have to remove the FIM certificates when things are really broken with the user profile service:
Stop the SharePoint Timer Service
Stop the User Profile Service if ...
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As almost always with SharePoint the answer is "It depends".
Why should I have a separate Install account?
The main purpose of a separate Install account is to be sure you have an account which is owner of all the installed files and therefore always have the rights to update these. So at least you shouldn't use a personal account for the installation as ...
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The Local parameter can be used, and exists, for two reasons as you and Anders describes.
1) Execute the deployment immediatley withouth the timer service - on single server farms. Most common approach.
2) Deploy the solution on one server at a time to maintain uptime for the farm while updating/deploying. It's not as easy as it sounds. First of all you ...
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If you are a Farm Administrator or have access to a Farm admin account, you can then add yourself as a Site Collection Admin on any Site Collection for any Web application in that Farm. You mention that several sites are not showing up in CA. Are you sure these are Site Collections and not sub sites? If so, could they possible be in a different Web ...
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Check out this article on nothingbutsharepoint.com on how to find the versions in SP2010. And Todd Klindt has a nice break down too.
Taken from Todd's article,
To see which build your farm is, go to Central Administration > System
Settings > Manage servers in your farm (/_admin/FarmServers.aspx)
Or using Windows PowerShell: ...
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The 'enterprise' way to do this would be to use a proper monitoring tool such as Microsoft Operations Manager. The process I have in mind would involve:
Configure SharePoint diagnostic logging such that the 'least severe' event to write to the Windows event log is [your desired severity threshold]
Configure MOM to e-mail alert you whenever something is ...
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Never disable the Timer and Administration Service.
From TechNet:
To facilitate this centralized
configuration model, Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 relies on two
new and enhanced services: the Windows
SharePoint Services Administration
service and the Windows SharePoint
Services Timer service. The Windows
SharePoint Services Timer ...
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Jobs that are already running take priority, and new jobs that want to take over will fail. In order to ensure the new job to run, the old job must finish or be aborted.
What does your timer job do exactly? If there are database transactions or file movement, I would say to avoid the abortion of the job if you can help it.
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Not entirely sure why you add "except CA". Sure you can automate security using PowerShell. But this gives you only real value if you have multiple farm environments that you want to stay as much "the same" as possible.
The important thing here is to harden security for your farm, not really how you do it. As a primer you should read Plan security hardening ...
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If you are running this from the server, you will need to make sure you "run as administrator" also, the farm account is the account that is used for the identity for Central Admin. You can grant other accounts privileges to run PowerShell Commands, and you have to do this if you are going to use a non-farm admin account to run PowerShell. You can find that ...
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(1) How do I transfer the Central Admin site from being hosted on the old server to the new server?
You do that via the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard. Remove the CA from the old server, then add it (again via the wizard) to the new one.
Here it is explained in a little more detail: ...
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Couple of things
Disable Loopback.
Disable IE SEC from Server Admin.
Try adding the http://centraladmin to Trusted Sites / Local Intranet
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Could you check the SQL rights for the account that you use to open SharePoint. It should be dbowner and securityadmin or just for the sake of seeing if it fixes your problem make the account a sysadmin on ...
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Site Collection Administrator and Site Owner are really two very different roles. The SCA is more of a technical role and has the ability to dramatically change the way the whole site operates, including enabling/disabling features and so forth. The Site Owner is typically content focused and is more comparable to a Power User as they can only use the ...
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First off its not available in SharePoint Foundation, so you need the full SharePoint 2010 Server.
Here it can be enabled at site collection level. The feature is called Document Sets.
When enabled you can add a document set content type to your list, giving you the ability to create document sets from the "new document" button in the ribbon.
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You could use the SPSite.Usage property which returns a UsageInfo object. This object contains information such as storage. Or you can go to the top-level site of the site collection and choose Site Settings > Usage Summary.
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It's make me to laugh sometime when i look at SharePoint the way programmed.
My scenario really sucks, We have a huge 1.3 Tera (single) content database, and we thought we need reduce the size the share point be faster,
We planned to create a custom to archive old content/documents to the separate record center and it's archived, here comes the truth the ...
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You have to decide the IA ( information Architecture ) before the start of provisioning, ....This will help to decide site structuring DEEP vs WIDE
DEEP Structure : having one sitecollection to house all the sites requests as subsites
-> cannot limit the site quotas
-> security nightmare (1000+ sites)
-> as the content DB grows , it would be difficult to ...
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Well, in our environment, the domain admins only have access to central admin out of the box. Unless you add them as having full control to your web application policy, they shouldn't have access to your web application.
I think the second question depends on your org structure. At my work our domain admins take care of everything from hardware through ...
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Enumallwebs should list the sites that are orphaned too, so it is weird it fails!
Did you prepare for your upgrade properly by doing PreUpgradeCheck, and resolve all issues?
Did you do enumallwebs on the site before upgrading? Orphans should be deleted before attempting an upgrade rather than after...
Make sure you read up on the new tools for preparing ...
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PowerShell can, so by implication so can the SharePoint API, check out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff724280.aspx#section1
and here too:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/c3e2960c-56e3-4693-bcd2-dc15250bd2a9
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I am not aware of a tool that tracks all those stats at once. You could probably acomplish it using wire shark on each of the respective machines. I guess I would ask why do you want to know, probably you have a slow site? Some things you can do to help that are
Turn on Caching http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770229.aspx
Use y-Slow in firefox ...
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Leave it on, as it provides flexibility.
You should already be directing traffic to your WFEs with DNS or a load balancer, so other servers won't have traffic hitting them. But leave it on. Down the road you'll need to perform some sort of troubleshooting, and this will come in handy.
"Well, then turn it on when you need to!" I hear you say. The problem ...
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I would not go the route of a site collection admin in general. In almost any enviroment i will make a active directory group for farmadmins. The farm admins group will get a "user permission policy" on ALL web applications. The policy will give any member of the group on all zones "Full control". Using this technic will let you access any content on any ...
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If you want to know databases in your farm instance, use Get-SPDatabase as suggested by another answer.
If you want to understand what databases sharepoint creates and what exactly sharepoint stores in them, check Databases That Support SharePoint 2010 Products
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You will find entries similar to the following in the section of the web.config for your web application or in the root web.config if you configured FBA at the IIS root. You can change the name(s) directly in the web.config file.
<roleManager>
<providers>
<add name="FBARoleProvider" ...
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Have you verified there are no other memory issues? You can run something like Memtest to validate it's not the modules.
Are there any other related items in the logs, like excessive AppPool Recycles, etc?
EDIT
MS has a few KB articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;946517
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923028
Additionally ...
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Event ID 7076 -
Office SharePoint Server "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is
often an indication that other memory is corrupt. "
"System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This
is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
...
Event ID 6398 -
Windows SharePoint Services 3 NERA-WPWFE1
...
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You cannot unless you are using some sort of proxy server such as ISA in between.
http://appdev means port 80, while your site is running on port 7777.
You can however, create a Url such as http://appdev:7777 to access your site by defining host header.
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