Error 7043 on SharePoint 2010 RTM "Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed"

So, I am getting this error on my SharePoint servers (Running Windows 2008 SP2).

After doing some search I did find Blogs ( Blog 1, and Blog 2) that describe "fix" by doing the following:

1. Navigate to /14/ControlTemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx user control

2. Open the user control in a text editor and locate the first line
3. Find the character string , and replace with a comma ‘,’ (without quotes).
4. Save the user control and you have completed fixing this bug

I am not sure I want to do this at this point, since this action seems a hack to me and Microsoft my release an update to fix the issue.

In short, I can live with this error till Microsoft release either a KB article or an update for this issue.

SharePoint 2010 installation and adding the farm account to the local administrator group

I was watching on demand web called by Dan Holme titled "SharePoint 2010 installation and administration jump start" and one of the thing that stood up was adding the SharePoint Farm Account to the local Administrator group. Now, this is not mentioned in any MS technet articles. I would like to point out that Dan Holme did a great job documenting it in SharePointPro Blog  and his article is much better than MS technet article Administrative and service account required for initial deployment.

I would strongly recommend reading Dan Holme's Blog for Least Privilege Service Accounts mentioned above.

SharePoint 2010 RTM User Profile Synchronization

I have been struggling with starting the User Profile Synchronization Service on SharePoint 2010 RTM build. I am using a virtual machines for my test:

- Server 1: AD and SQL 2008 role on Windows 2008 R2
- Server 2: IIS and SharePoint 2010 on Windows 2008 R2

The first test was to run the configuration wizard to configure all services and see if I can start the User Profile Synchronization Service. To my surprise I managed to start the service successfully. I have used a Farm Account to provision all services. So, to double check I went and clicked on User Profile Service Application under  Managed Service Applications

and I got the following error:

Checking the application log found errors related to Forefront Identity Manager Service indicating it cannot connect to SQL:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ServiceHealthSource
Date:          5/11/2010 10:12:31 AM
Event ID:      22
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      sp2010.domain.local
Description:
The Forefront Identity Manager Service cannot connect to the SQL Database Server.

The SQL Server could not be contacted. The connection failure may be due to a network failure, firewall configuration error, or other connection issue. Additionally, the SQL Server connection information could be configured incorrectly.

Verify that the SQL Server is reachable from the Forefront Identity Manager Service computer. Ensure that SQL Server is running, that the network connection is active, and that the firewall is configured properly. Last, verify the connection information has been configured properly. This configuration is stored in the Windows Registry.

But this was not the only error related to Forefront Manger  I got other errors:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Forefront Identity Manager
Date:          5/11/2010 10:13:03 AM
Event ID:      3
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      sp2010.domain.local
Description:
.Net SqlClient Data Provider: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Transaction count after EXECUTE indicates a mismatching number of BEGIN and COMMIT statements. Previous count = 1, current count = 2.
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader()
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.DataAccess.UpdateRequest(RequestType request, IEnumerable`1 updates)

So, I went ahead and disabled the Windows Firewall (just in case) and rebooted my server (I don't think I reboot is required, but you never know). After the server had rebooted, I opened the Central Administration page and clicked on User Profile Service and viola it worked, I was able to get to the page:

 I clicked on Configure Synchronization Connections to create a new connection and that worked fine and I was able to configure the server. In order to complete the test I had to Start Profile Synchronization  and I got the following error in the application log:

 Log Name:      Application
Source:        FIMSynchronizationService
Date:          5/11/2010 12:10:02 PM
Event ID:      6050
Task Category: Management Agent Run Profile
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      sp2010.domain.local
Description:
The management agent "MOSSAD-ADAccount" failed on run profile "DS_FULLIMPORT" because of connectivity issues.
 
 Additional Information
 Discovery Errors       : "0"
 Synchronization Errors : "0"
 Metaverse Retry Errors : "0"
 Export Errors          : "0"
 Warnings               : "0"

Ok, I went ahead and disabled firewall on my domain controller, since I am not sure if it's a firewall or something had to do with the account I am using (I am using my farm service account). Also, I had to stop the sync process and started a full .profile sync and that failed. So, I tried a different account (Administrator account) and that worked by clicking on the Synchronization link:

I did get a great deal of useful information from this Blog, I would highly recommend reading this Blog, it does contain a great information. I have used the previously mentioned Blog to configure my SharePoint account to run the User Profile Synchronization and that worked fine. Note that I got the following warning in my applicattion log:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        FIMSynchronizationService
Date:          5/11/2010 12:28:10 PM
Event ID:      6126
Task Category: Management Agent Run Profile
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      sp2010.domain.local
Description:
The management agent "MOSS-5d867c01-cc0d-40cb-be0d-37b4739c97aa" completed run profile "MOSS_DELTAIMPORT_469b85e3-5b1a-4015-82b9-a438c1ca4aed" with a delta import or delta synchronization step type. The rules configuration has changed since the last full import or full synchronization.
 
 User Action
 To ensure the updated rules are applied to all objects, a run with step type of full import and full synchronization should be completed.


However, the real test is to use the manual configuration method where we can use the Microsoft best practices on using the least privilege administration. So, I uninstalled SharePoint 2010 RTM and re-installed it again, but this time the plan is to use Least Privileged Administration method instead of using a single account.

Here are the steps I took to install and configure the farm:

1. Installed and ran SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.
2. Manually provisioned search.
3. Created a new web application and create a site collection based on Team Template.
4. Started Managed Metadata Web Service and created Managed Metadata Service Application.
5. Defined an explicit inclusion managed path for My Site and site collection that used My Site  Host template.
6. Create User Profile Service Application and started  User Profile Service.
7. Tried to start the User Profile Synchronization Service and it remained on Starting

I had to stop the service by using PowerShell Command:

1. Launched  SharePoint Management Shell
2. Typed the Get-SPServiceInstance to get the Id of User Profile Synchronization 
3. Typed Stop-SPServiceInstance to unprovision the service.

Tried to start the service one more time to no avail (note: I am logged to the server using my farm admin account). I had to stop the service one more time, then I went ahead and deleted the  User Profile Service Application, ran IISRESET,  then ran the Farm Configuration Wizard and selected farm admin account as the service account to provision User Profile Service Application. After the wizard had completed the configuration, I tried to start the User Profile Synchronization Service and that worked.

Now, I am thinking it could be the account. I had used a different account to manually provision  User Profile Service Application. So, the next logical path was to stop the User Profile Synchronization Service and delete User Profile Service Application and then use the farm service account to create User Profile Service Application  and then see if we can start User Profile Synchronization Service

1. Stopped  User Profile Synchronization Service.
2.  Deleted User Profile Service Application.
3.  Manually created User Profile Synchronization Service using Farm Service Account (Note: this account is used by default for User Profile Synchronization Service).
4.  Started User Profile Synchronization Service and it worked.

I did the following test:

1. Uninstalled SharePoint 2010 and rebooted the machine.
2. Deleted all SharePoint databases from SQL 2008.
3. Deleted unused site (SITE_2) from IIS.
4. Installed SharePoint 2010 RTM
5. Added the service account that is used for User Profile to the local Administrators group (in my case I created SPUserProfile_svc account)
6. Manually provisioned: search, managed metadata, and create site collection for My Sites and Team site.
7. Manually provisioned User Profile Service Application (Note: used a different account from the farm service account as mentioned in step 5).
8. Started User Profile Service. (Note: you might need to restart the SharePoint Timer service to get to the User Profile page)
9.  Started the User Profile Synchronization Service this time it worked.
10. Clicked on Configured Synchronization Connection to create a new connection. (Note: if you get any errors, restart the SharePoint Timer Service) 
11. Started a full profile synchronization and it worked.

At the end of this post, I have learned that in order to successfully start the User Profile Synchronization Service using Least Privilege Administration method, the account used to provision the User Profile Service Application must be in local Administrators group on the server. Maybe it is mentioned in Microsoft documentation somewhere. I hope Microsoft will start updating their SharePoint 2010 soon.

That's it for now.

IIS SITE_2 and SharePoint 2010

I had SharePoint 2010 Beta2 installed on a single virtual machine and decided to remove to to install SharePoint 2010 RTM version. So, I followed the following steps to remove SharePoint Beta 2:


1. Ran the configuration wizard and disconnected from the farm.
2. Uninstalled SharePoint from Control Panel
3. Uninstalled the SharePoint 2010 Beta prerequisites software.
4. Rebooted the machine.

After removing/uninstalling SharePoint 2010 Beta2, I went ahead and installed SharePoint 2010 RTM and after the SharePoint Configuration Wizard Completed successfully, I launched Central Administration site and to my surprise the icons looked strange, it looked like a combination of Beta and RTM.

Here is a screen shot of the ribbon after SharePoint 2010 RTM installation:

Here is a screen shot of the ribbon from a machine that DID NOT have SharePoint Beta previously installed:

So, I disconnected from the farm and looked at IIS and found the following:

There is SITE_2. However, if you click on it from the left pane you get the following error:

In order to remove it you need to click on Sites on the left pane and then click on SITE_2 to highlight it and then right click on it and select Remove or click on Remove from the right pane:

After removing SITE_2, I ran the configuration wizard one more time and created a new farm and got the same issue. So, I went to control panel and repaired my installtion and that worked for me.

I cannot say for sure that SITE_2 was the culprit, but I have learned my lesson by checking IIS to see if there are any leftover from previous SharePoint installation.

SharePoint Event ID 2138

We have installed SharePoint 2010 RTM on three serevrs:
- Two servers acting as a Web Servers (10 GB RAM, 40 GB for C drive and 80 GB on D drive)
- One server acting as an Application Server ( 10 GB RAM, 40 GB for C drive and 80 GB on D drive)
- One SQL 2008 server.

After configuring the farm, now we are getting the following even ID on all servers:

 Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation
Date:          5/6/2010 10:00:01 AM
Event ID:      2138
Task Category: Health
Level:         Warning
Keywords:    
User:         Domain\ServiceAccount
Computer:      FQDN of Computer name
Description:
The SharePoint Health Analyzer detected a condition requiring your attention.  Drives are at risk of running out of free space.
Available drive space is less than five times the value of physical memory. This is dangerous because it does not provide enough room for a full memory dump with continued operation. It also could cause problems with the Virtual Memory swap file:  (ComputerName - C:\).
Examine the failing servers and delete old logs or free space on the drives. For more information about this rule, see "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=142688".


The previous error indicate that we need to increase the space on C drive. Now, I have installed SharePoint on D drive since I wanted to dedicate the whole drive to SharePoint. Just a reminder this is the RTM installation and since there are no SharePoint 2010 RTM documents, I have used the Beta documents which states " Maintain twice as much free space as you have RAM for production environment"

I am not sure if I can safely ignore the warning since my SharePoint resides on a separate drive. For now I think I will wait and see....I hope Microsoft will start revising their documents before the official release date for SharePoint 2010.