Installation problem

Hi,

I tried to install trial version of ExCM on our SharePoint server but it has not shown me any option such as delegation after the installation.

Can you please tell me the exact steps for installation.

Do I need to make FBA connection prior to installation of ExCM? 

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    Matthew McBride

    FBA can be configured before or after ExCM has been installed. Actually, ExCM can be a useful to to test your FBA configuration as well as add that first FBA user. When I perform an installation I typically follow theses steps...

    1. Setup a Web Application with dual zone authentication (Windows, FBA) 
    2. Create my ASPNET DB (Be sure to grant access to your applicaiton pool identities)
    3. Edit the Windows zone web.config file with the connectionString, peoplePickerWildCard, membership, roleManager and profile sections. (See Program Files\SharePoint Solutions\Extranet Collaboration Manager\Configuration for samples)
    4. Test the configuration by adding the first user via ExCM (Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Manage Users In Authorization Store)
    5. Edit the Central Administration web.config file
    6. Make my FBA account a Site Collection Administrator (Central Administration -> Application Management -> Site Collection Administrators)
    7. Edit the FBA web.config file
    8. If using registration or reset password feature setup Lists and Libraries anonymous access level (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101130181033.aspx?pid=CL100605171033)
    9. Add the 'Forgot My Password' link to the FBA login page (See Program Files\SharePoint Solutions\Extranet Collaboration Manager\Customizations for samples)

    This process can take anywhere from 1-8 hours depending on your expertise.

    Jeremy Luerkens
    Manager, Software Production
    SharePoint Solutions
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    Matthew McBride

    Hi!

     

    I am stuck. In the above steps I end up getting nowhere at step 5 as the new menu "Manage Users in...." Never appears. 

    I am running a trial license (which I have installed). Platform is Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Sharepoint Enterprise SP1 with infrastructure updates. All 32 bit and running on a virtual machine (in hyper-v). 

     

    After installtion I am also getting odd errors in my eventlog:

    BODY{font:x-small 'Verdana';margin-right:1.5em} .c{cursor:hand} .b{color:red;font-family:'Courier New';font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none} .e{margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;margin-right:1em} .k{margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;margin-right:1em} .t{color:#990000} .xt{color:#990099} .ns{color:red} .dt{color:green} .m{color:blue} .tx{font-weight:bold} .db{text-indent:0px;margin-left:1em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:.3em;border-left:1px solid #CCCCCC;font:small Courier} .di{font:small Courier} .d{color:blue} .pi{color:blue} .cb{text-indent:0px;margin-left:1em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:.3em;font:small Courier;color:#888888} .ci{font:small Courier;color:#888888} PRE{margin:0px;display:inline}0) fix(e,"cb");} if (e.className=="di"){if (e.children(0).innerText.indexOf("\n")>0) fix(e,"db");} e.id=""; } function fix(e,cl){ e.className=cl; e.style.display="block"; j=e.parentElement.children(0); j.className="c"; k=j.children(0); k.style.visibility="visible"; k.href="#"; } function ch(e){ mark=e.children(0).children(0); if (mark.innerText=="+"){ mark.innerText="-"; for (var i=1;i

    - <System>
      <Provider Name="Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search" />
      <EventID Qualifiers="49152">10036</EventID>
      <Level>2</Level>
      <Task>3</Task>
      <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-10-16T14:44:37.000Z" />
      <EventRecordID>12119</EventRecordID>
      <Channel>Application</Channel>
      <Computer>XPDEV.dev.local</Computer>
      <Security />
      </System>
    - <EventData>
      <Data />
      <Data>Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server</Data>
      <Data>0</Data>
      <Data>1</Data>
      <Data>Timeout expired</Data>
      </EventData>
      </Event>

     

     BODY{font:x-small 'Verdana';margin-right:1.5em} .c{cursor:hand} .b{color:red;font-family:'Courier New';font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none} .e{margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;margin-right:1em} .k{margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;margin-right:1em} .t{color:#990000} .xt{color:#990099} .ns{color:red} .dt{color:green} .m{color:blue} .tx{font-weight:bold} .db{text-indent:0px;margin-left:1em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:.3em;border-left:1px solid #CCCCCC;font:small Courier} .di{font:small Courier} .d{color:blue} .pi{color:blue} .cb{text-indent:0px;margin-left:1em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:.3em;font:small Courier;color:#888888} .ci{font:small Courier;color:#888888} PRE{margin:0px;display:inline}0) fix(e,"cb");} if (e.className=="di"){if (e.children(0).innerText.indexOf("\n")>0) fix(e,"db");} e.id=""; } function fix(e,cl){ e.className=cl; e.style.display="block"; j=e.parentElement.children(0); j.className="c"; k=j.children(0); k.style.visibility="visible"; k.href="#"; } function ch(e){ mark=e.children(0).children(0); if (mark.innerText=="+"){ mark.innerText="-"; for (var i=1;i

    - <System>
      <Provider Name="Windows SharePoint Services 3" />
      <EventID Qualifiers="14130">27745</EventID>
      <Level>2</Level>
      <Task>1105</Task>
      <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-10-16T14:18:15.000Z" />
      <EventRecordID>12090</EventRecordID>
      <Channel>Application</Channel>
      <Computer>XPDEV.dev.local</Computer>
      <Security />
      </System>
    - <EventData>
      <Data>#50071: Unable to connect to the database SharePoint_Config on XPDEV. Check the database connection information and make sure that the database server is running.</Data>
      </EventData>
      </Event>

    However, all connectionstrings are ok. 

     

    Any ideas?

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    Matthew McBride

    First of all, make sure that the user account you have logged in as is a site collection administrator. Otherwise you will not see the menu items such as Manage Users in Authorization Store.

    The event log errors are directly related to your database connection. Try setting up an ODBC connection from your server using the same connection string information to verify that you can connect from that server.

    David Fisher
    Software Engineer
    SharePoint Solutions
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    Matthew McBride

    Thanks for the quick reply!

     

    ODBC connections are fine and Sharepoint functions as it should (I do not have any errors in the event log prior to installing the Extranet Collaboration Manager features in Sharepoint and that is really the only reason why I connected the errors with the installation). 

     

    I am logged on as administrator who is domain admin, farm admin, site admin in my little VPC-environment. 

    Any additional suggestions, I am really stuck and would love to make a proper evaluation of your tool?

    Peter

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    Matthew McBride

    Here are the complete installation steps for SharePoint FBA and ExCM...

    (Configuring a dual zone SharePoint site with FBA)
    http://help.sharepointsolutions.com/products/excm/webframe.html

    FBA installation on a SharePoint environment is not an easy task for any user. If you are having issues you can always download our pre-configured VPC image which already has ExCM installed and configured. You can request a download here...

    http://moss.sharepointsolutions.com/SharePoint-Add-ons/Products/Pages/Asset.aspx?AI=8 

    If you would like a help configuring FBA you can have a SharePoint Solutions technician perform the installation. Find more information here...

    http://shop.sharepointsolutions.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=6&HS=1 

    Finally, your ODBC database connections are definitely related to your SharePoint site and not a direct byproduct of the ExCM installation.

    Jeremy Luerkens
    Manager, Software Production
    SharePoint Solutions
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