Note in advance:
Our installations (Organice DCS and Organice Workbox) use the .NET Service Controller infrastructure to query the status of Windows services on the machines in the SharePoint Farm.
This Service Controller in turn invokes several operations in the Windows Advanced API (advapi32.dll) that use ports 139 and 445 to marshal the necessary queries across machine boundaries.
All installation steps need to executed on a SharePoint server
Pre-installation steps
The following steps need to be taken before a New (e.g Organice DCS) is installed
Close all PowerShell windows
If you used the SharePoint Management Shell (PowerShell), SharePoint may not be able to perform certain tasks.
You’ll need to do the following:
- Find any open PowerShell window in the farm
- Close all PowerShell windows
IIS Reset
Before installing the servers, reset IIS services by using the command ‘IISReset’. This will clear the IIS cache, which results in a clean installation. You need to do this on every Web server.
You’ll need to do the following:
- Open a CMD windows as administrator
- Perform the ‘IISRESET’ command
SharePoint Services Reset
Along with the IISReset, we need to restart the SharePoint and Organice services as well.
You’ll need to do the following:
- Open Services.msc
- Select ’SharePoint Timer Job Service’ and restart it.
Clear SharePoint Cache
- Open Services.msc
- Select and stop the ‘SharePoint Timer Job’ service
- Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\config\%GUID% (select the folder that contains the Cache.ini file)
- Delete all XML files except the Cache.ini file
- Modify the Cache.ini file by altering the number to 1 and save the file.
- Start the ‘SharePoint Timer Job’
- Repeat the same process for each web front-end (this includes all SP servers that have the ‘Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application’ role enabled)
During installation steps
The following steps need to be taken during a new installation
Timer jobs
During installation, check the job status to see if all jobs are running. Make sure that all jobs are finished before performing another action (deploy solutions, create site collection etc.)
You’ll need to do the following:
- Open Central Administration
- Select Monitoring
- Select Timer Jobs
- Select Running Jobs
- Wait for all the jobs to end.
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