Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Trend Micro Antivirus Installation for SharePoint 2013

Trend Micro Antivirus Installation for SharePoint 2013

As I mentioned in my previous article, Trend Micro supports the SharePoint 2013.see the details of which Antivirus supports SharePoint in below.


I am giving the detailed installation steps for the trend micro PP for SharePoint. can get the PP(portal protect) from the below site.


Installation Steps:

1.   Ensure that the PP downloaded properly
               


2.   Double click on the PP and wait for the extraction to complete
           


3.   Click on Next

4.   Accept the Terms in License agreement 

5.   Choose the installation as depends on your farm, If it’s a Standalone server, choose the first, If it’s a farm environment(SP servers are more than 1) choose option 2. I am choosing as standalone server
               


6.   Click next

7.   Provide the Activation code(License code) as got from Trend Micro. Once provided Click on next
                           

8.   We see a warning, ignore this message and proceed with “Ok”
               


9.   Select Install to local servers and click next
             


10. Choose the path as you required, if you want ,you can specify the different path where files need to store, click next
                
11.   Choose the Port number and select SSL if you have configured SSL. Click Next
                 
                           
12.       Select the SharePoint SQL server and provided the details of SQL server, Username and password. click on next

Note: The user name that you select, recommends Farm Admin account and have DB creator and DB owner permissions.
              
13.       Click on Next once provided all the details

14.       Select Use Local server Administrator Group, Click on Next

Note: the Account your using for the installation must be in Local server Administrator group                  


15.If you want to get the updates Directly from Internet Choose the Proxy server and provide the details, If you are willing to get the Updated from other central Trend micro server, not required to choose the option. I select None in this. Click on next once selected the option                              
                 

16.       Select NO,I don’t want to participate(depends on your choice)click on next
                  
17.       Select Register Portal protect agent to control manager server if you have central Trend micro server and get updates from there.
                   


18.       Choose Connect using HTTPS, if you’re using SSL in your farm, click next

Note: Web Server Authentication is not necessary

19.       Specify SMTP settings if you  have PP central server. Configuration of a SMTP-Server at this point is only necessary if no central TMCM-Server is available in your network. Click Next
               


20.       Click Install
         


21.       The installation will start



            22.   Click on Next once Installation done
                      
  23.   Click Finish to complete the installation


Post-Installation Steps

Trend Micro is successfully installed in SP server, now we need to connect to trend micro with SharePoint to Monitor. Follow the below steps to achieve this.

1.   Go to programs->portal protect management console
       

2.   Logon with local Administrator Account,Enable Two Way Communication Port Forwarding                                
                         

3.   Enable Two Way Communication Port Forwarding
                                                 i.    Open menu “Administration>Control Manager Settings”
                                                ii.    Enable option „Enable two-way communication port forwarding“
                                               iii.    Enter IP address “IP address”
                                              iv.    Enter “16373” as “Port”
                                               v.    Save configuration with button “Update Settings”

SharePoint settings:

The SP settings also must enable for antivirus to monitor. Follow the below steps to do so.

1.   Central Administration->Security->Manage antivirus settings
      
2.   The options should be enabled as per requirements.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Antivirus For SharePoint

Antivirus For SharePoint   
Recently, we have a requirement to do antivirus for our Satellite 2013 farms. For the reason, when I am checking and digging the information I come to know so much of valid information regarding Antivirus that supports SharePoint 2013.I find the information in Bits and pieces,putting altogether in one place for easy understanding and access.please find the details below.

1.   Forefront Protection for SharePoint 2010

This still will work  fine with SharePoint 2013. However as the product is discontinued, If you already have it, it will continue to be supported until December 31st 2015. You will receive AV definition updates until that date as well. After that you need to migrate to some other AV.

2.   AvePoint DocAve Antivirus for SharePoint

This product is discontinued. There is no option to choose this.  

3.   Trend Micro Portal Protect

This supports the SharePoint 2013.Trend Micro released Portal Protect SharePoint Security with SharePoint 2013 support:

 http://www.trendmicro.com/us/enterprise/network-web-messaging-security/portalprotect-microsoft-sharepoint/index.html

4.   Bit Defender

This product is discontinued. There is no option to choose this. This one is not supported for SharePoint 2013.check the Details on below. 

http://www.bitdefender.com/business/security-for-sharepoint.html#System Requirements

5.   Symantec Protection for SharePoint

This supports the SharePoint 2013.find the details below. Released Portal Protect SharePoint Security with SharePoint 2013 support

  http://www.symantec.com/protection-for-sharepoint-servers

6.   McAfee Security for SharePoint

This supports the SharePoint 2013.McAfee updated Security for SharePoint with SharePoint 2013 support:

  http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/security-for-microsoft-sharepoint.aspx

7.   Kapersky Security for SharePoint Server

This supports the SharePoint 2013.Kapersky Security supports SharePoint 2013.     

 http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/business-security/sharepoint

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User profile synchronization service shows starting for long time

User profile synchronization service shows starting for long time


There could be many reasons for the service is in struck and shows starting only. .Why does it get stuck? Well, 15 provisioning runs will be attempted before it gives up. When we hit Start in Services in Server a series of tasks are run, which are to running the second stage of the Forefront Identity Manager setup. Those include things like setting up certificates, windows services, installing database schemas so on. If something is incorrect, it will try all tasks again, and more often than not, fail the service to start. That’s why it appears to be “stuck” when in fact its attempting each of the runs. Of course this can take a while, hence the appearance of being “stuck”. After around 20 to 45 minutes the status will return to Stopped, and you can attempt to start it again.

In some cases, the status will remain as “Starting” even after reboots. In this case something very bad has happened and you are best off throwing away the UPA service application and starting over.

You can however, manually start things back to the state before the starting of the UPS service instance. This can be necessary in some cases, but again, I strongly recommend you start clean by deleting and recreating the UPA. Before Re-creating the Service application ensure that all the below steps tried.

·        Ensure to restart the user profile service and synchronization service
·        Ensure to restart the FIM services
·        Ensure to do IISReset after the services starts
·        Ensure to reboot the server
·        Ensure to have the available space on DB server and SP server.


If all done but still issues not resolved, then try to Delete the Existing UPA service Application and create the new one and check the status.

To find the Error details,Please follow the below.

Browse to the location "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell" and run miisclient.exe .it will show the actual error message which was causing the issue.



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Monday, March 17, 2014

SharePoint Roles

SharePoint Roles:

I am sharing this very simple Topic, because many of the Administrators want to know the difference and the responsibilities.

Owner:  Owner has a complete control over site, list, library and other content placed on site.

Designer: Users having designer role limited to certain activities. User can view, add, update, delete and approve content. Users can even customize the things, they have access to.

Editor: Editor role users are not allowed to customize site design or content. Users can add, edit, update and delete content from the site.

Contributor: Very limited role. They can delete content items which they have created but not by other.


Reader: Users are only allowed to view the content of site. Users are assigned to Reader roles can download and edit the content but cannot save it back on SharePoint site.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

We don’t have any refiners to show you

We don’t have any refiners to show you
                                      
 Issue: while we search for something in search centre, we can get the results but, it shows error” We don’t have any refiners to show you” or a “white space on left side of search centre”


Cause: This is due to the refinement web part is not added on search page or settings are not configured properly.There would be many other reasons this is one of those.

Solution: follow the below steps to add web part and configure settings.

1.   Open the search centre web page
2.   Go to site settings->edit page
        

3.   Click on Add web part         
                                 
4.   Go to search in categories and select Refinement and click ADD      

5.   The web part will be added                           
6.   Go to Edit web part and select Choose Refiners option.
                  



7.   Click on Choose refiners to select the Refiners.
              


8.   Click OK once selected and go back to Search and check the output.             


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Friday, March 7, 2014

The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered

The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered            

Problem occurs when you start SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Power shell) but don’t get access to the farm. You would be unable to run commands. 

 Solution 1:Run Power shell with another user who don’t see above message e.g. Farm Admin


 Solution  2: 
  
1.    Execute “Add-SPShellAdmin -Username domain\User”(required user that you want to get Access to Power shell)
2.    Successful execution will ensure that desired user is Shell Admin and can execute commands. 
                            http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607596.aspx 

Solution  3:

As you can see it is Power Shell Version 3.0 which doesn’t support SharePoint 2010

to resolve the issue, change Power Shell start menu short cut path and added –version 2.0 switch parameter, below is the complete path with –version 2.0 switch.

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WINDOWSPOWERSHELL\V1.0\PowerShell.exe -version 2.0 -NoExit " & ' C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\POWERSHELL\Registration\\sharepoint.ps1' "

Add –version 2.0 switch;

By doing this  could run Power Shell 2.0 which support SharePoint 2010 commands

  

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

The term is not recognized as the name of a CMDLET

The term is not recognized as the name of a CMDLET
     


The issue occurs some times while we run the CMDLETS on windows power shell or SharePoint management shell. Its due to the path issue, we can’t simply type the name of a script file in order to run it. Even with the execution policy configured to permit scripts, must precede the script filename with a path. you’ll see the” .\ “path in use, which refers to the current directory. You could also provide any other absolute or relative path in order to run a script—but you must provide a path of some kind. 


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SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)

SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)                  


I am giving my personal views as per my experience on up gradation of SharePoint. If anyone has any concerns please make a comment.

Initially, we cannot directly Upgrade from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013.we must follow the 2 stage Upgrade process here. which means, we must upgrade MOSS 2007->SharePoint 2010 first and then SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 only.

we must consider so many factors for upgrade. From SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 it must be through data base attach method only. The In place upgrade method is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.We must build a new SharePoint 2013 farm for Upgrade from SharePoint 2010.providing the steps below for a single web application as in brief. We need to follow the same steps for other web applications as well to perform the upgrade.


We must take care of below before doing the up gradation.

Site templates, web parts, site themes, workflows, web templates, site definitions….

We can only do upgrade in below order only. we can’t do upgrade directly from different versions of SharePoint.

SharePoint foundation 2010 -> SharePoint foundation 2013
SharePoint server 2010-> SharePoint server 2013
SharePoint enterprise 2010-> SharePoint enterprise 2013

SharePoint, project server enterprise 2010-> SharePoint, project server enterprise 2013

There is another issue also while we upgrade the site from SP 2010->SP 2013,It should be authentication issue. Classic authentication method is deprecated in SP 2013. So to upgrade site from SP 2010->SP2013 which is created with Classic authentication in SP2010, first need to change the authentication from Classic->Claims and then upgrade in SP 2013.

1.   Build a new SharePoint 2013 farm first

2.   Go to SQL Server and take backup of the content database and restore it into your new SQL server.
3.   Create new web application and site collection in SP2013.
4.   Now remove the content database for the newly created  web application in SharePoint 2013.Follow below to do
·        Go to central Administrator
·        Click on Application Management and then
·        click on content database => Manage Content database
·        Then select the newly created web application URL in sp 2013
·        Click on the database which is on the left side.
·        Then go to remove content database part and check the checkbox then it will prompt you popup there click on then again ok button.
5.   Now test whether the web application still having relation with the content database by using the following command.
Test-SPContentDatabase-Name "name of content database"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".
6.   Now go to SQL server and delete the database related to SP 2013 manually
7.   Now restore the 2010 content data base manually.
8.   Now we need to attach the restored content database  by using following command.
Mount-SpContentDatabase-Name "Database name"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".
9.   Now we can get following error like “Upgrade completed with following errors".
10.           Finally Migration has been completed successfully

For Service Applications: we only can upgrade below 6 service applications from SP 2010->SP 2013

·        User profile
·        Managed meta data
·        BDC
·        Search
·        Performance point
·        Secure store

There is another process to upgrade service applications. We should run by power shell. 

2007 needs to be patched at SP3 to upgrade to 2010.

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