I have been running DC’s for almost three years now. Most of our software is connected to Active Directory if possible for authentication. If you have a large Windows network you probably already have a Active Directory DC and if you have a small network you may still want one since SharePoint 2010 requires it. [...]

I am still waiting for the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 patch for Windows Server 2008 R2 platform so you can see the red bar across the top of my installation. I just finished Configuring SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 yesterday and received the following error “Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’” during the installation of services on Server [...]

Interesting article: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=842

If you are trying to install Sharepoint and you received this error follow this link, Jie Li from Microsoft has published a posting for this just a few hours ago and he say’s that they will release a hotfix for the missing ‘allowInsecureTransport” in a few days. This is the future home of the link: http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx  [...]

Using the configuration tools that launches when SharePoint launches I will now get this server going. Create a SharePoint Service Account for SharePoint services to run as. I made mine on our domain controller. If you have a single member server just create a user account in the local users: MOSS2010SA Next select the services [...]