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I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 and what i found was that it was restarting over and over again. It restarted the server 8 times before i decided to look at the logs, it seems like it was having problems configuing the IIR Roles:

“Multiple Server restarts on Error with Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server”
and
“Application Server Role: Web Server (IIS) Role: configuration error – pending restart of the computer”

Solution:
It seems that you CANNOT have Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 installed before you install SharePoint 2010. I rolled back to a previous VM where i did not install VS2k10 and then ran in prereq install and everything worked.

With just a few months to go before launching the Windows Marketplace for mobile applications, Microsoft has published details on porting iPhone apps to its Windows Mobile platform. It’s a case study of the app Amplitude [App Store link], which lets users hear far-off sounds with ease. It’s a detailed writeup that takes readers through the entire process.

Microsoft will have quite a task ahead of them in this market, considering Apple’s considerable lead and foothold. However, there are many (to say the least) Windows Mobile devices out there as well as people for whom “Windows Mobile” means business.

It will be interesting to see if and how iPhone/iPod touch app developers choose to move their products to Windows Mobile. The Windows Marketplace for mobile applications is expected to drop between September and December of this year, as are Snow Leopard and Windows 7. It’s going to be an exciting autumn.

[Via Macworld]

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Activate Windows Server 2008 RTM (MSDN Subscriber Downloads version)
This weekend I downloaded and installed Windows Server 2008 RTM from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I was building a VPC image with that + SQL Server 2005 + TFS 2008 + Team Suite 2008 + Office 2007. Everything installed smoothly, but when I tried to activate Windows Server 2008 I received the following error:

And when I clicked on the “More Information” link, this popped up.

Um, OK. So what’s that supposed to mean? Read more »

Microsoft is releasing its Vista replacement OS dubbed “Windows 7” today. A few months ago the Windows 7 beta was released for a few hours but hordes of early adopters crashed Microsoft’s servers. To remedy that, they extended the beta download period to two weeks. Rather than make the same mistake twice and force the world’s eager users to download the OS in a small Window, the Windows 7 release candidate will be available to download for three months until July. Not only that, the license is valid for more than a year, expiring on June 1, 2010 with no limit on the number of product keys you can obtain. This is a great way to try out Windows 7 for free and really sink your teeth into it with a year-long trial license. The release candidate is one release after the beta, but one release before the final release some time in 2010.

Get the Windows 7 RC and your free Windows key starting today through July and is available in 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

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Microsoft DreamSpark continues to offer select high school and university students free use of select Microsoft Software. Choose from SQL Server Developer 2008, Visual Studio Professional 2008, Expression Studio 2, Windows Server 2008, and more. To obtain this software, you must first log in with or create a Windows Live ID and then verify that you’re a student by choosing your school from a list and logging in with your student information. Once verified, you will be prompted to download an ISO image of the software of your choice.

Link: https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx?SID=934849-2-0-ARTICLE-0

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&#038;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:4df5f112-f04a-490c-9d06-667126389298&#038;showPlaylist=true&#038;from=msnvideo" target="_new" title="Canvas for OneNote Demo Video">Video: Canvas for OneNote Demo Video</a>

Canvas for OneNote allows you to navigate and edit notebooks in a new way by providing a high-level canvas-view of all your content. The prototype lets you zoom and pan around; view and organize content in new ways; add new pages right where you want them; and even locate pages in a timeline view

Free download here: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote/Pages/default.aspx?WT.mc_id=1004

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The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId)

How to solve?

Go to CodePlex and find then download STP Inspector. Unzip and then run that app with the STP file you are trying to debug on the server you are trying to deploy the template file to

“STPInspectorWin.exe” will tell you the error. If it says you are missing a feature, export the stp file, then rename it to a CAB file and modfiy the manifest.xml file inside the CAB. Use the STP Inspector to find the missing GUID and do a search then remove that line from the xml manifest.

Repack up all the files in the STP file and the new manifest.
You should google and then use CABARC.EXE. Its a free ms tool. What I did was extract everything in the cab into a folder called test, then go to the command prompt and type in
cabarc N

Example:
C:\stp\BIN>cabarc N test1.cab C:\stp\BIN\Test\*.*

If your Template file is too large, you can change the size limit by using this command:
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-document-size -propertyvalue 524288000

Steps to Rename SharePoint Servers:

Run stsadm command after the server has been renamed:
stsadm -o renameserver -oldservername -newservername

Recreate Central Admin:
psconfig -cmd adminvs -provision -port 22222 -windowsauthprovider “onlyusentlm”

Go into Central Admin and Rename AAM’s

The newest iPhone 3G 2.2.1 firmware update from Apple was released earlier this week and iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage Tool has just been released yesterday. With PwnageTool, you can create your own custom iPhone 3G firmware from Apple’s official IPSW file so that you can continue to run the yellowsn0w software unlock. The 2.2.1 firmware update contains a baseband firmware update (02.30.03) which is not compatible with yellowsn0w. This is a major problem for iPhone 3G users who wish to update to 2.2.1 firmware but still want to keep their iPhones unlocked to use outside of AT&T. This is only possible with a custom firmware created with Pwnage Tool that strips out the baseband update from the upgrade. This is great… if you have a Mac. Windows users are left in the dark for now, at least until QuickPwn for Windows gets released.

But if you don’t want to wait, we’re actually providing the custom IPSW firmware as a free direct download created with Pwnage Tool for you to update your firmware without needing to wait for QuickPwn for Windows to come out. This only works, however, if you’ve previously pwned your iPhone before. With this firmware update, you simply need to put your iPhone in DFU recovery mode, launch iTunes and shift-click (Mac users option-click) on restore and browse to this custom firmware and use it to update your iPhone’s firmware. And that’s it. Since you’ve previously pwned your iPhone before, QuickPwn isn’t necessary for you and you won’t need to wait for QuickPwn Windows to be release. If it hasn’t been pwned before, then you’re out of luck and you’ll need to wait.

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In practice it would be invalid to pick someone to whom you have not granted access to the site. Although the alert setting would be created, nothing would ever be sent to a user that has no rights to a site except for a notice that the alert was created.

People (site collection users) and profiles are not the same thing, but there is synchronization. If you add a user to a site and they were not previously in the site collection, they get added to people on that site collection and I’m not sure when their email address is looked up from the profiles (I think it depends – immediate if you send them a welcome email, and slightly delayed if you don’t).

If you try to set up an alert for someone who has not been previously added to a site collection (or for any other reason does not have an email address – like most administrator accounts, many temporary accounts, etc.) you will get the message (trapped error):

The following users do not have e-mail addresses specified: Username, David. Alerts have been created successfully but these users will not receive e-mail notifications until valid e-mail addresses have been provided

Set my e-mail address...
Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.

Where “Username, David” was my demo user. The “set my email address” won’t work for non-administrators and the “troubleshooting” won’t be much help, but the main part of the message is correct – the alert is created. If the user has a profile with an email address, the system will set it up in the background and the user WILL get alerts IF there is anything they can access (but clearly the user still needs access to the site). If you had previously added the user to your site, you don’t see this message after the email address has been synced.