Time for an ‘infrastructure musling’…
Consider that if you have an environment which is low on resources, you may find that through creating web applications in the SharePoint 2010 farm that further attempts to create a new web application through Central Administration could result in the following:
- The creation process results in a ‘Page cannot be displayed’ message.
- The web application is only provisioned on the Central Administration server.
The reasoning is that as more web applications are created the more work is required and therefore the time in which it takes to create a web application increases exponentially. Also, due to the additional work is IIS reset and further updates, the default timing required to complete is beyond the 90 seconds set by the Central Admin application pool. Hence, the provisioning time may not simply be high enough.
To resolve, try the following:
- Delete the web application that did not provision to the Web Front End.
- On the server hosting Central Admin, open IIS manager.
- In the tree view, expand the server name and click on Application Pools.
- Locate the SharePoint Central Administration v4 application pool. Right click on it and choose Advanced Settings.
- In the Process Model section, set the Shutdown Time Limit to a greater value. I set mine to 300.
- Restart IIS.
- Try creating the web application again – note that you must be patient! On my environment (and it’s a TEST one) I had to wait for 5 minutes to provision.
Final note.
You should also check the number of cores that are available to the Central Admin server. Remember that the recommended core level is 4. I noticed that during the creation the CPU usage hit and stayed at 100% (and that was at 2 cores). Upping to 4 seemed to correct the issue where I did not have to alter the Shutdown Time Limit; that said, am still investigating what causes the slowdown in creating Web Applications (but that’s for another musling)…
Hope this helps you out there!
Whilst I was at the London SharePoint Conference 2012 I was rapidly taking notes on the sessions I managed to get to. Whilst doing notes on the talk by Rob Foster titled ‘Facebook in your Comnpany – You can forget it!’ I thought ‘Hey I should definately share some key points’. Additionally, the cartoons were done by Chris Shipton and during Robs talk (and many others) – I took pics of them, and used snippets of them in my ‘key points’ presentation I’d like to share. (more…)
Hi, booked way back to go to the London SharePoint conference taking place next week – going to be exciting to meet up with friends and make plenty of new ones, and learn learn learn!
Was really hoping to speak at the conference, but alas, a little too late for my submission, nevertheless, it still its going to be great fun and will let you know how it all goes and the highlights!
More information about the conference is on this link:
www.internationalsharepointconference.com/
From a planning perspective, what are the very basic areas that one needs to think of when going down the route of creating a SharePoint solution, whether its a site, or farm, or even a workflow solution. I have attempted to answer this by building a presentation key covering planning, adoption, supporting, delivery from a high level.
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Located some great guides whose goal is to assist the reader through the process of planning a SharePoint Server 2010 infrastructure by addressing the following:
Step 1: Identify the Requirements
Step 2: Apply the IT Policies
Step 3: Define the High-Level Architecture
Step 4: Design the Web Server Infrastructure
Step 5: Design the Application Server Infrastructure
Step 6: Design the SQL Server® Infrastructure
Step 7: Identify the Optimization Opportunities
These guides are available for download. The first guide takes the architect through an easy-to-follow planning and design process to successfully create a SharePoint Server infrastructure that is appropriately placed, sized, and designed to deliver the desired business benefits, while also considering the performance, capacity, and fault tolerance of the system.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/C/5BC966BC-47D8-41DF-95F2-FA9A2D816258/SharePoint%20Server.zip
For more information go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg581794.aspx
This guide provides a clear comparison of SharePoint collaboration technologies across on-premises, standard hosting, and dedicated hosting scenarios. The guide can be used as a framework for evaluating the technical feasibility of Microsoft SharePoint Online and determining which SharePoint delivery model best suits the organization’s needs.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/C/5BC966BC-47D8-41DF-95F2-FA9A2D816258/SharePoint%20Online%20-%20Evaluating%20Software-plus-Services.zip
For more information go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee354215.aspx
Am building a presentation summarising these guides for a future blog coming soon!
Just back from holidays and back into the throes of things – checking my mails find one from a client stating they want to migrate some of their in-premise SharePoint to SharePoint online.
To give this more of a scenario, here goes. The client is using SharePoint in-premise with Microsoft Office tools. Being a research body they write lots of papers and publish these on their in-premise SharePoint. They now need to make some of the documents public and wish to maintain them on their Office365 site. They are ultra-keen on ensuring that the key features of Microsoft Office are available to their SharePoint online site. One of those is the Research option.
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There’s plenty of technical articles discussing what tool to use, what commands to use, what products to use and more in the face of migrating one or more SharePoint environments from 2007 to 2010. However, this article describes the process that a SharePoint Architect would need to define with the SharePoint Administrator to ensure there is a plan which covers:
- What will be migrated
- What environments will need to be in place
- What Risks have been investigated
- What teams are involved
- What Third Party systems have been investigated
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I have been asked by quite a few people on listing documents from document libraries that include sub-folders; so I’d like to share with you a poor-man method of listing all files and folders in a document library in SharePoint with hundreds of files and folders, and displaying the contents of this in NotePad.
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Welcome to the third and final part of my Value Management article concerning how to define and apply a model for solution architecture in SharePoint.
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Time to tell a tale of a rather interesting scenario concerning deploying Office Web Applications to a SharePoint farm.
The installation of the product was intended to go directly after the initial deploy of SharePoint to the servers in the farm. Following the installation of the prerequisites for SharePoint 2010, then installing SharePoint 2010 and running through all the relevant configuration checks, security checks, then getting OAT (operational acceptance testing) signoff, it was time to deploy Office Web Applications.
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