FileNotFoundException error when installing SharePoint 2010 Beta

On a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation which passed all the prerequisites, you might get the following error :

11/17/2009 16:39:32 9 ERR Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.CurrentUserIsAdministrator(Boolean allowContentApplicationAccess)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.ISPPersistedStoreProvider.DoesCurrentUserHaveWritePermission(SPPersistedObject persistedObject)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.BaseUpdate()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Update()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.RegisterDefaultDatabaseServices(SqlConnectionStringBuilder connectionString)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.Provision(SqlConnectionStringBuilder connectionString)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Create(SqlConnectionStringBuilder configurationDatabase, SqlConnectionStringBuilder administrationContentDatabase, IdentityType identityType, String farmUser, SecureString farmPassword, SecureString masterPassphrase)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Create(SqlConnectionStringBuilder configurationDatabase, SqlConnectionStringBuilder administrationContentDatabase, String farmUser, SecureString farmPassword, SecureString masterPassphrase)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.CreateOrConnectConfigDb()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].

To resolve the problem you will need to download the following Geneva Framework version that had the required DLL.

Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta

Since SharePoint 2010 has been made available for MSDN/TechNet subscriber now, here’re some steps you would like to follow to get a successful installation. But keep in mind: This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released. This Beta should only be used for evaluation purpose.

Follow these steps to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 Beta products. The process is split in two parts. The first part will install SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta, and the second part will install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta. You can either install SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Start by installing SharePoint Server 2010.

before you start the installation, you will need the following pre-requisites

• .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 installed
• Geneva Framework (Windows Identity Foundation) (download here)\
• SQL Server 2005 SP3 and CU3 OR Server 2008 SP1 and CU2
• Install WCF FIX: A hotfix that provides a method to support the token authentication without transport security or message encryption in WCF is available for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 – link not activated yet) . Please note the 2008 fix also applies to Vista, while the 2008 R2 fix also applies to Windows 7.
  If you don't have this fix installed, you will get "Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'" error in ULS log. And most of the service applications will not run properly
• Create a special AD account that will be used as the SharePoint Managed Account in your farm. Refer to step 3 of the following post for how to create this account.

After you have applied the fixes and updates

• Run the pre-requisite tool for SharePoint foundation 2010
• After installing the binaries, run the configuration wizard. Setup the farm using complete farm installation. Use standalone installation only on Windows 7/Vista for dev purposes.
• Go to Central Administration and run the "Configuration Wizards" to setup the service applications. Use a special user for the SharePoint Managed Account for services and web applications in the farm
• Enable Developer Dashboard and turn to OnDemand for troubleshooting page performance issues. It can be done by STSADM or SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Windows PowerShell).
  STSADM: stsadm -o setproperty -pn developer-dashboard -pv OnDemand
  Windows PowerShell:
  $svc=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
  $ddsetting=$svc.DeveloperDashboardSettings
  $ddsetting.DisplayLevel=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::OnDemand
  $ddsetting.Update()

After installing this, you will have SharePoint Foundation 2010/SharePoint Server 2010 installed.

External Links

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx
• http://sharepointdevwiki.com/display/spadmin2010/SharePoint+2010+Beta+2+Install+screen+walk+thru
• http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx

Taxonomy Services, Managed Metadata, and Managed keywords

SharePoint 2010 comes with a new services that provides the functionality to tag content types with metadata and keywords. I will be posting more information about how to manage taxonomies within SharePoint 2010 in upcoming posts, for now, i will explain some keywords that we will see a lot in SharePoint 2010.

Taxonomy is a hierarchal tree of Values

Term Store is a DB containing different taxonomies

Term Set is a section in the term store that contains individual terms.

Term is a node in the taxonomy tree with an ID and many text labels

Tagging is the act of linking an item to a node or multiple nodes in the taxonomy tree.

Groups are security boundaries within the term store and above the term set.

Keywords are the actual links (reference) to a node in the taxonomy tree.

Managed Metadata Column is a new column type that can be added to content types

Managed Keyword Column is a new column type that can be added to any content type

At this point, i'm not sure what is the difference between the Managed keywords, and Managed Metadata.

These can be managed in SharePoint 2010 using the Term Management Tool. You will find this in Central Administration --> Manage Service Applications. The tool will allow administrators to publish, Terms, Term Sets, and importing them.

It is possible to tag documents within a desktop Rich Client such as MS Office Word.

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More Links

http://manish-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/10/taxonomy-services-and-managed-metadata.html

http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/index.php/2009/10/using-enterprise-content-types-and-managed-taxonomies-in-sharepoint-2010/

SharePoint 2010 UI Improvements

SharePoint 2010 has a lot of improvements in the UI which impacts the usability of the WCM in SharePoint in a positive way.

Some of the enhancements are:

• Cleaner Markup: The Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (MSF) controls are no longer table based, and all the CSS classes were re-factored and cleaned up.
• SharePoint 2010 is XHTML compliant, and also supports WCAG 2.0.
• Reduced Postbacks / Page refreshes.
• Server Ribbon, which copies the functionality of the ribbon in Office applications.

Reference: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/10/19/part-1-improvements-to-the-core-sharepoint-platform.aspx

Metadata in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 comes with a huge taxonomy API, put into the Microsoft.Taxonomy.dll assembly.

With SP 2010, it is possible to tag items and pages with keywords from a term store, which then can be leveraged through the search solutions, or navigation solutions.

This will provide SharePoint with another method to visualize the data, together with the folder structure (i.e. SPSites, SPWeb, SPList approach).

SharePoint 2010 Developers Center

The SharePoint 2010 Developer Center is now live on MSDN. The site contains useful learning modules about SharePoint 2010. The site includes modules for getting started developing in SharePoint 2010.

Welcome to SharePoint 2010

Beta version of SharePoint 2010 will be released in November as announced by Steve Ballmer and Jeff Teper today at the SharePoint 2009 Conference.

The new version of SharePoint Office Server has a lot of new enhancements in regards to content management and collaboration. Some of the interesting new features are:

• Social Feedback and Organization
• Enterprise Metadata
• Web Publishing including Digital Asset Management
• Governance and Records Management
• Development on Windows 7

and many more

For more details about SharePoint 2010, visit the SharePoint Team blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx