For Workstation 7 and later and Player 3.x and later, you can increase the virtual disk from the GUI:

1. Select the virtual machine from the Inventory.
2. Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings.
3. Click Hard Disk.
4. Click Utilities > Expand, enter the new size, then click Expand.

Reference: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047

Windows 2008 OS (~2 minutes)

How to extend the boot partition in Windows Server 2008

To extend the boot partition in Windows Server 2008, follow these steps:

1. 1. Click Start, and then click Server Manager.
2. 2. In the navigation pane, expand Storage, and then click Disk Management.
3. 3. In the details pane, right-click the volume that you want, and then click Extend Volume.
4. 4. Follow the instructions in the Extend Volume Wizard to extend the boot partition.

Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590

I’m not sure that the first run on the Config Wizard needs to take place, but since there are some prerequisites to OWA SP1 if you don’t have SharePoint SP1 installed first, I’m doing them separate.

Download:

• Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (KB2460058)
• Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2460045)
• Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 (KB2460073)

Order of Installation:

1. Install the binary files for Foundation SP1
2. Install the binary files for SP Server SP1
3. Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard
4. Install Office Web Apps SP1
5. Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard

Update I: Here is an excellent write up on the steps and procedures for installing on a full farm.

Install Foundation SP1 Binaries

Install SP Server SP1 Binaries

Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard

Install OWA SP1 Binaries

Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard

[Snip… to help prevent Global Warming]

Later in the day, they posted a follow-up, detailing which packages were affected (SharePoint Server Package 2394320 and Project Server Package 2394322), and steps for a workaround.

It appears that the main issue is that the User Profile Service Application loses the assigned permissions during the install of the CU. The post walks you through resetting the permissions.

The following are available on TechNet and MSDN:

• Project Professional 2010 (x64) – (English) 272 (MB)
• Project Professional 2010 (x86) – (English) 235 (MB)
• Project Standard 2010 (x64) – (English) 245 (MB)
• Project Standard 2010 (x86) – (English) 223 (MB)
• Office Professional Plus 2010 (x64) – (English) 718 (MB)
• Office Professional Plus 2010 (x86) – (English) 650 (MB)
• SharePoint Server 2010 (x64) – DVD (English) 723 (MB)
• Visio 2010 (x64) – (English) 343 (MB)
• Visio 2010 (x86) – (English) 293 (MB)

Configuration Database

1. Go to the “Operations” tab
2. Click “Servers in Farm”
3. Under “Farm Information” see the following items:
   1. Configuration database server
   2. Configuration database name

Central Administration Content Database

1. Go to the “Application Management” tab
2. Click “Web application list”
3. Click “SharePoint Central Administration v3″
4. Under “SharePoint Site Management”, click “Site collection list”
5. Under the root “/” site, look in the information table for the “Database Name” value

General Usage Content Databases

1. Go to the “Application Management” tab
2. Click “Web application list”
3. For each web application listed other than “SharePoint Central Administration v3″ (see above), perform the following:
   1. Click the web application name
   2. Under “SharePoint Site Management”, click “Site collection list”
   3. For each listed site collection (by URL):
      1. Click the URL of the site collection
      2. In the information table, look for the “Database Name” value

Search Database

1. Go to the “Operations” tab
2. Under “Topology and Services”, click “Services on server”
3. Click the text “Windows SharePoint Services Help Search”
4. Under “Search Database”, look for the values:
   • Database Server
   • Database Name

I was disappointed to see VirtualPC is no longer supported for Home versions of Windows. I was also disappointed to see the free VMware Server equivalent of VirtualPC had disappeared.

However, I just discovered the free VMware Player now not only runs VMs, as it always has, but also allows you to create them! You can also create and run 64-bit guest VM’s if you have the appropriate hardware, which I do. VirtualPC can’t do that. Sweet!

Update: A co-worker (thanks Shane!) mentioned to me the free VMware Server is still available. I’m going to try out Player, hoping it is more light-weight, and see how it goes first.

We ran into an issue on one of our SPS 2003 installations where the team site information was not searchable at the team site level. We could successfully search all content at the portal/area level, but no results would come back when we performed the same search inside of a team site.

After some troubleshooting with our DBA and Microsoft Support (mostly our DBA), we realized that a required column by SharePoint for indexing the team site content was missing. The column name was Extension.

The resolution for this problem ended up being fairly simple once we figured it out:

1. Open SharePoint Central Administration on the front-end server
2. In the left-hand navigation, click “Windows SharePoint Services”
3. Under “Component Configuration”, click “Configure full-text search”
4. Uncheck “Enable full-text search and index component”
5. Click OK
6. Under “Component Configuration”, click “Configure full-text search”
7. Now re-check “Enable full-text search and index component”
8. Click OK
9. At this point the required column “Extension” should be recreated in the SQL database
10. Force a re-index or wait for the next schedule
11. Test

This fixed the issue for us, and we were able to bring back search results at both the portal and team site level again.

There are several books that stand-out in my career where the value is well over the $50 spent on the book. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices is definitely one of those books.


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