SharePoint Install Bork
What a pain in the arse!
I was installing Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server 2003 for the good majority of today and kept running into a problem with the Central Administration website - it wouldn’t start! When trying to start it, I would only receive the error “The parameter is incorrect”.
As it turns out, the required application pool wasn’t getting created for some unknown reason. It took a little bit of digging, but I did find the reason at the usual place. Apparently you need to use the form server_name\user_account instead of simply user_account - the install isn’t smart enough to resolve the name without explicitly defining the server name. That seems a little ridiculous to me. You would think the install would do some sort of verification during the install. Guess not!
I found another interesting little quirk - you need to have the TCP/IP protocol enabled for the SQL server and listening on the default port of 1433. Don’t try to use the "Hide Server" option, because it won’t work, at least not if you just try to use the database name.
June 28th, 2004 at 9:29 pmWhat a huge pain in the arse but I am glad I found your post
Putting server name in front of account worked great on a reinstall.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:43 am