I finally sat the 70-668 SharePoint 2010 Administration test this past Thursday. I have been working with 2010 for a couple years now, but was still nervous about sitting the test as I am just not a good test guy. I was very pleased when It was all over and I passed with an acceptable score.
Now its time to start working toward the first dev test.
SharePoint 2010/2013 Tech Notes
Saturday, September 15, 2012
My Install of SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 VM
I decided to dive into Windows Server 2012 and SharePoint 2013 this weekend as I had downloaded the software ofr each a while back and wanted to get started. I am using Vmware workstation 8 for this.
Windows Server 2012 Installation
I created a new VM, selected Windows 7 x64 in Vmware, set the ISO to my OS ISO and powered up the VM.
I ran into an issue almost immediately when booting up from the iso.The error was
Windows Cannot Read The ProductKey Setting From The Unattend answer file
When you click OK, the VM would just reboot.
I did a bit of googling and found the solution here
The fix was easy, just uncheck the power on, or turn off the floppy settings in the VM. I chose to just turn off the floppy drive. After this the installation routing ran as I would have expected.
The installation time was quick, seems like it only took 30 or 40 min to complete the installation.
I had not gone through any 2012 docs prior to this install, so when I logged on for the first time and loaded up the GUI it was a bit of a surprise. No start menu, icons, or anything else that looked familiar. I poked around server manager a bit and back to google I went.
I found that in order to get to some desktop type icons that another feature had to be installed "Windows Desktop Experience", so I installed this feature and after reboot had some tiles on the screen for things like control panel, IE, etc. I then found an article here that goes over the various keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 and they seem to work in 2012 as well.
So at this point I had at least a base install up to begin digging into and to try and install SharePoint 2013 on.
Share Point 2013 Installation
I started with the prerequisiteinstaller package and everything installed and correctly, after a couple reboots it was all wrapped up.
I performed a standalone installation as all I want to do at this point is go through the installer and have a look at some of the interface and feature differences.
The installation of the binaries went fine, but it did error out when it kicked off psconfig with the error below
ErrorCode:SubStatus:
Service running under Network Service account in workgroup environment is not supported.
Back to google and found the solution to the issue here, I only had to change the app fabric service account and did not encounter the TCP port in use error. I then ran
and this completed with no errors.
When I then proceeded to run psconfig from the GUI as the article mentions, it kicks off, but then fails at the end with an error on installing "sample data". I looked this up and found that this does not stop the completion of the configuration, so for now i just ignored it.
I launched Central Admin and the new CA interface loaded up. Yet again the look and feel have changed further and I see some new options that are not in 2010.
Even with the few errors encountered I had my new VM built in under 2 a couple hours and up and running.
Windows Server 2012 Installation
I created a new VM, selected Windows 7 x64 in Vmware, set the ISO to my OS ISO and powered up the VM.
I ran into an issue almost immediately when booting up from the iso.The error was
Windows Cannot Read The ProductKey Setting From The Unattend answer file
When you click OK, the VM would just reboot.
I did a bit of googling and found the solution here
The fix was easy, just uncheck the power on, or turn off the floppy settings in the VM. I chose to just turn off the floppy drive. After this the installation routing ran as I would have expected.
The installation time was quick, seems like it only took 30 or 40 min to complete the installation.
I had not gone through any 2012 docs prior to this install, so when I logged on for the first time and loaded up the GUI it was a bit of a surprise. No start menu, icons, or anything else that looked familiar. I poked around server manager a bit and back to google I went.
I found that in order to get to some desktop type icons that another feature had to be installed "Windows Desktop Experience", so I installed this feature and after reboot had some tiles on the screen for things like control panel, IE, etc. I then found an article here that goes over the various keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 and they seem to work in 2012 as well.
So at this point I had at least a base install up to begin digging into and to try and install SharePoint 2013 on.
Share Point 2013 Installation
I started with the prerequisiteinstaller package and everything installed and correctly, after a couple reboots it was all wrapped up.
I performed a standalone installation as all I want to do at this point is go through the installer and have a look at some of the interface and feature differences.
The installation of the binaries went fine, but it did error out when it kicked off psconfig with the error below
ErrorCode:SubStatus:
Service running under Network Service account in workgroup environment is not supported.
Back to google and found the solution to the issue here, I only had to change the app fabric service account and did not encounter the TCP port in use error. I then ran
PS C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN>
.\PSCONFIG.EXE -cmd Configdb create SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHostand this completed with no errors.
When I then proceeded to run psconfig from the GUI as the article mentions, it kicks off, but then fails at the end with an error on installing "sample data". I looked this up and found that this does not stop the completion of the configuration, so for now i just ignored it.
I launched Central Admin and the new CA interface loaded up. Yet again the look and feel have changed further and I see some new options that are not in 2010.
Even with the few errors encountered I had my new VM built in under 2 a couple hours and up and running.
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