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TFS 2008 – Project deleted but SharePoint side failed to be deleted

Patrick — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:03:50 +0000

I tried to use TFSDeleteProject command to remove the project from the TFS server,

tfsdeleteproject /server:myserver myprojectname

but at the end of the process there is this error message

Deleting from Build …
Done
Deleting from Work Item Tracking …
Done
Deleting from Version Control …
Done
Deleting Report Server files …
Done
Deleting SharePoint site …
Could not connect to ‘http://TFS08:17012/_vti_adm/admin.asmx’
The request failed with the error message:
–
Object moved

Object moved to http://tfs08:17012/_layouts/1033/error.aspx?ErrorTe
xt=Request%20timed%20out%2E">here.

Then I tried to repeat the command again with the /force option (tfsdeleteproject /force /server:myserver myprojectname), I still get the error

Deleting from Build …
Done
Deleting from Work Item Tracking …
Done
Deleting from Version Control …
Not found
Deleting Report Server files …
Not found
Deleting SharePoint site …
Exception of type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException’ was thro
wn.
Deleting from Team Foundation Core …
Done

But actually what happened is everything within TFS have been safely removed except the SharePoint, so you need to go into SQL Server Management Studio and connect to WSS_Config database

Select Id From Sitemap Where Path = ‘/Sites/myprojectname’

Grab the Id and execute this SQL

exec dbo.proc_dropSiteMap @Id=%Id%

After that you still need to clean up your WSS_Content database by executing this

exec proc_DeleteSite %Id%

But do note you might have nothing to delete in the WSS_Content

The New Efficiencies Launch – Before the event

Patrick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:27:34 +0000

Just some flash back on the event itself.

Me, Walter and Tim testing out the multi touch demo. Lots of hard work

The night before the event – Andrew Pickup rehearsing on stage

Tee – who has been our faithful proctor for many events working hard with his team

Below photos show the exhibition hall being setup.

Presenting @Microsoft Malaysia’s the new Efficiency Launch

Patrick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:54:18 +0000

It was fun and happy to see so many people turned out for the business launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010. I presenting 2 session at the developer break out track session.

Lights up Windows 7 (with Windows 7 API Code Pack) – Me and Walter Wong demoed features like the enhances taskbar, jump list, Multi Touch as well as Sensor API capabilities.

Lap around ASP.NET 4.0 and Silverlight 3 – I ended the last session of the day with a preview on Silverlight 4.0 showing cool stuff like right click context menu, file drag and drop as well as the webcam capabilities.

It was the best audience I never had so far. Many thanks to you guys for making it so much fun!

As per promised you can download my slides here.

By the way, if you are a SharePoint developer or IT Pro, check out the coming SharePoint User Group’s Information Work Community Day for IT pro and dev here

Setting up SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 screenshots (Part 1)

Patrick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:14:18 +0000

I managed to setup SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 VM with SQL Server 2008 R2 Nov 09 CTP. SP2010 requires 64bit version of Windows Server and SQL Server . For the host I have an Intel C2Q machine on 4GB RAM running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed.

For the VM environment, I have:

AD Domain Controller on Windows Server 2008 SP2 Server Core

Another VM running Windows Server 2008 SP2 enrolled in the AD domain. I have PowerShell feature (for SQL Server), IIS Web Server role and Application Server role (both for SharePoint) setup after I enrolled the VM in AD.

For part 1 of this, I will show how I setup SQL Server 2008 R2. Even though it’s in CTP, setting the database server is no brainer.

Below are my screenshots of the whole process. For detailed explanations, you can follow Microsoft UK MCS’s blog here.

This is the system properties of the VM. Note that I allocated 2.5Gb RAM for this VM.

Put in the SQL Server 2008 R2 DVD and it asked me to setup prerequisites i.e. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and an update to Windows Installer.

Prerequisites installer starting up

Accept the EULA for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

.NET Framework installer running

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 setup successfully.

SQL Server 2008 R2 installer will starts automatically.

Click on the Installation tab on the left. Then choose ‘New installation or add feature to an existing installation.’

Installer to inspect system and determine all setup rules passed.Click OK here

The SQL Server 2008 R2 setup files starting up. Following experience will be very similar to setting up SQL Server 2008. Hope it doesn’t change in the final release

Select that I want the Enterprise Edition

Accept the EULA

Setup files copying themselves

Setup support rules are scanned again. I ignore the warning on opening up the SQL Server port at the firewall.

This is new for R2, being not 100% sure, I choose the first logical option

Then select the SQL Server features I want. I chose:

Database engine with Full text search

Reporting Services

BI Development Studio (optional)

Management Tools – Complete

Installation rules are scanned to make sure all requirements fulfilled

Determined my SQL instance (in case you have more than 1 already installed)

Determine I have enough hard disk space

Now is the choose the user account(s) to be used for the services. I create a sqlservices account in my domain and I want all services to use the same account. So I clicked on ‘use the same account for all SQL Server services’

Keying in the account credential

Next screen I have to decide on the authentication mode and add myself as a SQL Server administrator.

I am doing nothing for Reporting services so it’s option 3 (Install, but do not configure the reporting server) for me.

I don’t want to send error reports back to Microsoft.

Final check on configuration rules

Review your installation options

Installation started

Success!

Starting up the SQL Server Management Studio, similar to SQL Server 2008

Still using VS2008 for BI Development Studio. Hope they will upgrade to VS2010 later as SP2010 will also be using VS2010

Next port I will show the installation process of SharePoint Server 2010

Buy a PC now and upgrade to Win7 for free! (almost)

Patrick — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:29:14 +0000

On Friday, June 26, Microsoft announced the official start of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, which allows customers who buy a PC now from a participating OEM or retailer with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate to upgrade to Windows 7 at little or no cost ( a minimal shipping & handling fee apply). This program will be available until January 31, 2010 and is a global program.

For more details, visit http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/windows/upgrade

Flying to Kuching tomorrow, catch me at Dev In Town!

Patrick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:23:58 +0000

If you are from Kuching (City of cats in Malay) or happen to be there, come and see me presenting SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 101 at Kuching Park Hotel. Event details are here.

SharePoint not your cup of tea? My fellow MVP Walter, Ming Man and Jabez will be there also presenting topics like LINQ, WPF and Windows 7.

Map to the venue (Jalan Padungan)

Talk on Source Control using TFS 2008 and Continuous Integration in TFS 2010

Patrick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:36:01 +0000

Local VSTS Partner and C# MVP Ervin Loh delivered a talk recently on 12th Jun about source control features inside Team Foundation Server 2008. This is actually a Microsoft Malaysia hosted event known as Devtalk where every month they invite speakers to share on topics of interest to developers. He has blogged about it here., and you can also visit his blog to access the slides deck.

Ervin’s session is followed by my colleague Hoong Fai who talked about Continuous Integration with TFS 2010!

IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

Patrick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:05:43 +0000

Microsoft announced the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a brand new free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly. The SEO Toolkit Beta is available for installation via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta at http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

Let’s try it out and see whether it will work with SharePoint. By the way Scott Guthrie has post of details of the toolkit here.

Slides for SPUG session on SharePoint Backup and Recovery

Patrick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:57:22 +0000

The speakers for the session just uploaded their slides on Enovade’s company website.

SharePoint Backup and Recovery Talk

Patrick — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:32:10 +0000

Local SharePoint User Group had their meeting at KL Sentral’s MDEC CyberCenter this Wednesday. This was a joined effort from MDEC, Microsoft, Enovade and SPUG to make the event a success.

Theme of the meeting was about SharePoint backup and recovery strategies. 1st session speaker is Chloe Chua from Enovade to presented a strategy and plan for SharePoint’s disaster recovery followed by Dr Jiang (COO of Avepoint) who shared on how to bring the DR strategy further by using tools from Avepoint.

More than 30 attendees came and the overall (regular Microsoft style) rating such as effectiveness of speakers and relevance of topics are around 7.5.

Thanks for Enovade for the sponsorship of snacks, Microsoft for providing marketing and logistic support and MDEC for allowing SPUG to use their venue.

Below are some photos from the event

Almost full house with more than 30 turnouts Tianyi Jiang, COO Avepoint

Chloe Chua from Enovade SPUG co-founder Matthew Khaw

Rahimah from Microsoft Innovation Center


Almost full house with more than 30 turnouts		Tianyi Jiang, COO Avepoint

Chloe Chua from Enovade		SPUG co-founder Matthew Khaw

Patrick's Bytes

TFS 2008 – Project deleted but SharePoint side failed to be deleted

Object moved to http://tfs08:17012/_layouts/1033/error.aspx?ErrorTe xt=Request%20timed%20out%2E">here.

The New Efficiencies Launch – Before the event

Presenting @Microsoft Malaysia’s the new Efficiency Launch

Setting up SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 screenshots (Part 1)

Buy a PC now and upgrade to Win7 for free! (almost)

Flying to Kuching tomorrow, catch me at Dev In Town!

Talk on Source Control using TFS 2008 and Continuous Integration in TFS 2010

IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

Slides for SPUG session on SharePoint Backup and Recovery

SharePoint Backup and Recovery Talk

Object moved to http://tfs08:17012/_layouts/1033/error.aspx?ErrorTe
xt=Request%20timed%20out%2E">here.