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 2010 Beta 2 Installation Headaches

This my first Blog about SharePoint 2010 installation. I have used VirtualBox , since it's lean and mean virtualization and above all FREE. Anyhow, so I went ahead and installed OS 2008 R2 and updated he virtual machine. Then I went ahead and downloaded the SharePoint 2010 Public Beta and installed it. The installation for the binaries and prerequisites software went smooth. However, during the configuration part I got the following error:

There are several blogs indicate the above error is related to memory, which may be the case since I have allocated 4 GB of ram for SharePoint Server, and in some Blogs they recommend to have at least 8 GB or ram. But that is not all, I have checked the application logs and it has a lot of errors

It seems that there are issue with Windows 2008 R2 in terms of WCF updates for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. What really bothers me is the fact that Microsoft will officially launch SharePoint 2010 in mid on May 2010, and it seems that there are issues that needs to be addressed first before companies start to deploy/upgrade SharePoint 2010. At this point I am really looking for open source solution other than SharePoint.