In IIS 6.0 I created an application pool for a new application and set the identity to a Windows domain account. When I tried to load the application I was greeted with “Service Unavailable”. The Windows system event log showed the two messages below: A failure was encountered while launching the process serving application pool ‘xxx’. The [...]
Whilst working on a SharePoint 2010 site I needed to edit a web part. However, after I’d chosen to edit the page, clicking on the arrow to edit the web part didn’t do anything. I ticked the checkbox and selected Edit Properties from the ribbon. This produced a File Not Found error. I navigated to C:\Program [...]
The instructions below are a brief guide to building a development/test SharePoint 2010 standalone environment. The basic steps are: Build a Windows Server 2008 R2 server Install a standalone instance of SharePoint 2010 Copy over and restore the live content, profile, social and sync databases Install and apply any customization and web parts. Install Windows Server 2008 [...]
