At a recent installation engagement a colleague and I were (un)fortunate to come across provisioned servers in a VMware environment. We installed SharePoint 2010 quite happily and were configuring until we came to the User Profile Service. No matter what we appeared to try the service would refuse to start. After much …

During my training in SharePoint I’ve been tasked with scripting an install of SharePoint. I know that there are other installers out there, but I wanted to learn as much as I could about installing it the ‘hard’ way. I had most of my 2 server farm installed and working without touching the GUI once. (Well OK, just …

During my training in SharePoint I’ve been tasked with scripting an install of SharePoint. I know that there are other installers out there, but I wanted to learn as much as I could about installing it the ‘hard’ way. I had most of my 2 server farm installed and working without touching the GUI once. (Well OK, just …