Resetting site Water

Has anyone come across this before?

I downloaded the latest version 1.1 and installed the solution by running:

stsadm -o addsolution -filename "<path>\BlobCacheManager.wsp"

And then deployed it, see the “Deploying a solution package” section here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262995.aspx. I then followed the instructions on the web site to configure it but found that BLOB Cache did not work. After a bit of digging I figured out wht had to be configured.

1. The object cache user accounts had to be configured. The details on how to do this are here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758656.aspx
   I hope to release a PowerShell script for this soon.
2. The object cache folder needed to be created, so I created “C:\BlobCache\14\” note this was a development environment. Microsoft warns: “We strongly recommend that you specify a directory that is not on the same drive as where either the server operating system swap files or server log files are stored.”
   Ensure the foler is created on each WFE server.
3. The SharePoint 2010 BlobCache Manager had set the web.config blob cache attribute to True. This looks ok but it is case sensitiveand should be all lower case it – true. It should look similar to:

   <BlobCache location="C:\BlobCache\14\" path="\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|jfif|bmp|dib|tif|tiff|ico|png|wdp|hdp|css|js|asf|avi|flv|m4v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|rm|rmvb|wma|wmv)$" maxSize="10" enabled="true" />

4. The folder that was created, “C:\BlobCache\14\”,  has to allow the Application Pool account for the Web Application you are using BlobCache on, to write to it. My account was called demo\sp_webapp (following suggestions from Todd Klindt http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=237)

Once these were all configured BLOB caching started to work and I saw folders and files appearing in the “C:\ BlobCache\14\” folder.

Thanks to Paul Hunt for help with the object cache user accounts PowerShell script and Paul Grimley for suggesting the solution.

Create a Content Type Hub Database

I like to have my Content Type Hub Site Collection in its own database. Here is the code/example to create a database for the content type hub.

Example

$CTHDBName = “ContentTypeHub_DB”

$WebApplicationURL = “http://SharePointRandy/”

New-SPContentDatabase -Name ContentTypeHub_DB -WebApplication $WebApplicationURL

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607572.aspx

Create a Managed Path

As I want my Content Type Hub to be at the root of my Web Application (http://<webapplication>/contenttypehub) I need to create a managed path. The PowerShell to do this is here:

Example

$RelativeURL = “/ContentTypeHub”

$WebApplicationURL = “http://SharePointRandy/”

New-SPManagedPath -RelativeURL $RelativeURL -WebApplication $WebApplicationURL
-Explicit

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607693.aspx

Create Content Type Hub Site Collection

It is easy to create a Content Database through the GUI but to ensure it is located in the database just created it is easier to do in PowerShell with the –ContentDatabase Parameter.

Example

$CTHurl = “http://SharePointRandy/ContentTypeHub”

$CTHOwnerAlias = “<domain>\<user>”

$CTHTemplate = “STS#1″

$CTHDBName = “ContentTypeHub_DB”

New-SPSite -Url $CTHurl -OwnerAlias $CTHOwnerAlias -Template $CTHTemplate -ContentDatabase $CTHDBName

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607937.aspx

As I don’t want to use the Content Type Hub Site Collection for anything else I like to prevent further Site Collections being created in the Content Type Hub database. To do this, run the following PowerShell:

Example

$CTHDBName = ContentTypeHub_DB

Set-SPContentDatabase -Identity $CTHDBName -Status Offline

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607912.aspx

Activate Content Type Syndication Hub

You need to activate the Content Type Syndication Hub feature to allow the Managed Metadata Service Application to connect to the Content Type Hub Site Collection.

$CTHurl = “http://SharePointRandy/ContentTypeHub”

Enable-SPFeature -Identity 9a447926-5937-44cb-857a-d3829301c73b -Url $CTHurl

Connect the Managed Metadata Service Application to the Content Type Hub

To connect the Managed Metadata Service Application to the Content Type Hub you need to use the command Set-SPMetadataServiceApplication. I’ll explain this in another blog post but for now see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607738.aspx

Sessions:

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