André Krijnen

So I started out today debugging some weird issues regarding feature deployment. And well sometimes I don’t know why I get errors, but what’s new. So first of all, let’s start where to start.

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Starting point:

A colleague of mine had written a feature for a customer of us, which worked perfectly. The customer had never issues like it should. After almost a year we (me, and the customer) decided to change the full Site Templates. Like a developer should do is making and changing the solution work. Well then comes the burden. After days of work, testing everything out the solution worked by me. (Owwh yeah, the known starting point: well on my computer it works).

So after deployment at the production server it didn’t work. I didn’t knew why, because everything should work like my notebook. The reason is simple, I had the same configuration, databases, etc. Well that didn’t work that out to.

So I thought well, let’s start fresh with new content databases from production. Ahh yes, there we go. Well, at my notebook it didn’t work either. Whoehoe, nice, we’ve got a good starting point for debugging.

Visual Studio 2010:

So I worked with Visual Studio 2010 and the deployed the feature again to debug. Well. Strangely, the solution worked after that. So Microsoft did some tricks while deploying. So I searched and called some people, yes on sunday. And telling me that Visual Studio 2010 is deploying asychronously. Yeah I knew that, but after a minute and some conversation telling that Powershell is deploying synchronously. Well that the trick I thought. So I decided to help my self out with some times, running the admin jobs, etc.

Even that didn’t worked out.

Go debugging old fashioned style: disabling Web and Site scoped features in the onet.xml.

After the first Web Feature (Deploying some List Instances and List Definitions) disabled the solution worked by powershell. I didn’t have a clue, but ohh well, I decided to change the ordering of the feature. Instead of List Definitions first, I decided to set the List Instances first. And you know what, It worked.

After enabling the Web Feature again, I could run the New Site creation perfectly.

So after some time Microsoft just released there first Service Pack for SQL Server 2008 R2. This package contains alot of improvements regarding to performances for Analysis Services.

You can download SP1 here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20302

Also when you’ve running SharePoint Server 2010 with Reporting Services integrated you should update your Reporting Services to the latest Service Pack. Also an important notice to this, you should also download the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Feature Pack to accomplish some other improvements.

You can download SP1 Feature Packs here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26728

When you’ve downloaded the Feature Packs you should also install the following components to all SharePoint Servers:

• rsSharePoint.msi
• sqlncli.msi
• SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi

The first one is the SQL Server 2008 r2 Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Server 2010

The second is the SQL Server Client 2008 which you also have to install when you install the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2010.

The third is also a component which is used in the prerequisite for SharePoint Server 2010.

 

 

Well finally I had the time to make a clean install for Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

It took me 1,5 half hour to be up and running again… that means Install Windows 7, full updates, Office 2007 Ultimate and MSN to work with.
Well that wasn’t to hard, except for the Realtek RTL8111 drivers for my LAN. The drivers supplied by Microsoft Update ruined the LAN connection, so I had to download new drivers from Realtek by itself.

After that I was happy that I finally installed it 🙂

Update: 10/15/2009 12:16 AM

So the first important things I’ve noticed is:

Network connections are stable, and no disconnected FTP transfers

System is not slow when going out of sleep mode

VMWare workstation seems to working better

When doing multiple processes like decompressing (WinRar) and opening a Solution with Visual Studio 2008 doesn’t cause any lack on WinRar

No unresponsive mouse when updating(installing) Windows patches and what so ever

Java seems not using big amounts of memory like in Windows Vista

Now let’s keep playing with Windows 7.

Owwh yeah my system configuration:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940
Mainboard: Gigagyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H RF3
Memory: OCZ DDR2-800 Reaper 4x2GB CL4 OCZ2RPR800C44GK
Graphics cards: 2xSapphire 4850 1GB
Disk config: 3x320gb RAID 5 for OS
Disk config 2: 3x1TB RAID 5 for DATA
Sound: Soundblaster 2 Audigy 24bit Advanced
Screens: 2x IIyama 26″

I used to host my own sites, but since KPN disconnected every port I’d used I had to get some Hosting party to host my sites and email.

Damnit, there goes my own stuff..

A strange thing happend last day is that for some reason my Web Server went down in action… I couldn’t explain why it happend, but I managed to gave it a rebirth of the server.

After 30 days without reboot, wow :-S It went down, and yet I cannot figure out why. Nothing changed, and I saw my logfiles and even there it didn’t show anything. So, what happened then? I don’t know.

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