SharePoint Saturday: Indy: January 30th, 2010

Indy is going to be having a SharePoint Saturday. We've got a call out for speakers at the moment. Go to: http://bit.ly/4u7qJ9

About SPS: Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis on January 30, 2010.

SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

Hyper-V Virtual Machines: Wireless Connection: Receives IP: Cannot Browse Internet

Ever since I've converted my laptop into a Windows 2008 R2 workstation, I've had issues with some wireless networks where my Virtual Machines receive an IP Address, Gateway and DNS servers, but could not browse Internal or External Web Sites.

The Problem? DNS Servers.

For whatever reason, the Internal DNS Servers that are getting assigned to my Virtual Machine are not able to resolve web sites like Google.com. So, I edited the properties of my connection (in the Virtual Machine) and put in static DNS servers like the Level 3 DNS Servers:

- 4.2.2.1
- 4.2.2.2

The issue seems to be that the IP Address that my Virtual Machine was getting assigned was a different IP Address Schema than the main network (and Internal DNS servers). So, while my VM was 10.8.8.24, the DNS server was 10.4.4.10. Normally, the host machine still works fine with this setup, but the Hyper-V VM cannot deal with this setup.

My setup for my laptop is Windows 2008 R2 (x64) (Host OS) running Hyper-V Virtual Machines that are all (x64) bit.

Hope that helps you (if you needed it).

Cheers.

Mossquito 2009: Installation Setup

So, you're curious about the Mossquito program? Would you like to know how to set it up? Well, there's a "James Walkthrough" for that. :)

What's Mossquito? If this is you, check out the Introduction to Mossquito 2009 post.

0) First things first... Go to www.boldbrick.com and download yourself a copy of the Mossquito program.

-- We'll look at installing the development environment first and then the server addition required for Mossquito --

1) Fire open the Mossquito installer file and you'll be greeted by the Wizard Start Page.



2) Next page, Terms and Conditions -- accept and continue (read to make sure that you are not giving up your first born! [just kidding])



3) Next page, Destination Folder -- feel free to update this, but I don't really see a need to do so I left it to the default. (Note: the "C:\Program Files\" instead of "C:\Program Files\BoldBrick\Mossquito 2009" is a known bug in the beta)



4) Next page, Choose Setup Type -- go ahead and select "Complete" since you might as well have everything local. (Note: If your development environment is on a server technology running SharePoint, then this will also install the Server piece of Mossquito and you will not need to run the Mossquito server setup seperately)





5) Next page, Service Account -- if you need the service to run under a different domain account, you can enter that here -- I just let it default to Network Service.



6) Ready to Install -- well, click "Install' already!







That's it! Mossquito is now installed on your development machine. If your development machine is seperate from your SharePoint server, then you will need to install "Mossquito Server" on the SharePoint server. Those instructions are below.

-- Now that we have the development environment is setup, now we need to install "Mossquito Server" on the SharePoint server (this is only required on [1] SharePoint server in a SharePoint Farm --

Installing the Mossquito Server is almost the same process as it is for installing the development environment for Mossquito. I'll outline the changes that need to be made for just the Mossquito Server.

1) Follow Steps [1] to [3] above for installing Mossquito

2) Next page, Choose Setup Type -- This time we just need to select "Custom".





3) Deselect everything except for the Mossquito 2009 Server



4) Follow Steps [5] and [6] above and you'll be good to go with installing Mossquito Server

5) Be sure to allow Mossquito Server to Start with the installation is finished.



That's it for the Mossquito Server! You can now fully utilize the Mossquito program!

Cheers!