SharePoint 2010 Beta

• Installing on a VM with Windows 2008 R2 x64
• Logged on as a specific account that I created just for SharePoint Installation.
• Ran ‘OfficeServer’ installer
• Installed prerequisites
• Installed SharePoint
• SharePoint configuration failed with the ‘allowInsecureTransport’ error on the create sample data pass of the configuration wizard
• Googled it and found my way to this hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976462 (thanks to http://iancampbell.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharepoint-2010-allowinsecuretransport.html)
• Installed the hotfix, restarted the server
• Reran SharePoint config wizard – Success!
• SharePoint popped up in internet explorer with ‘Template Selection’ (didnt do anything with this for now)
• Opened Central Admin (ooh looks different! ) Usually I would create Shared Service Provider, web apps, site collection etc… but I’m curious that it took me straight to template selection so gonna give that a go see what happens (maybe it will do it all for me .
• Went back to ‘Template Selection’, chose ‘Business Intelligence Center’ (sounds interesting!) under enterprise
• Clicked ok and it’s been ‘Processing…’ for quite a while, guess it’s got lots to do.
• Now I get a screen saying ‘Set Up Groups for this Site’ – Seems like it is going to walk me through this.
• Accepted defaults and clicked OK
• Now I’m on the Home screen, starting to wonder about reporting services, a quick Google gets me here http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/2010wave/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=18
• He raises a good point that we need SQL Server 2008 R2, luckily we already installed this as we’re trying all the latest versions of stuff on this server.
• It seems there is no reporting services add-in required here just central admin configuration (fantastic!) <– NOT TRUE (doh!)
• Hmm, my ‘General Application Settings’ list is different to his screenshot – Specifically ‘Reporting Services’ is missing, back to Google…
• Ok turns out the prev blog is misleading – There is actually a reporting services add-in, it’s here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=16bb10f9-3acc-4551-bacc-bdd266da1d45&displaylang=en
• Log off the sharepoint installer account and log back in as administrator
• Before I download this I’m going to go back to Reporting Services config and change to integrated mode (was prev set up as native)
•  NOTE – When I changed the database to one using integrated mode it didint immediately reflect that in the ‘Report Server Mode’ – It still showed Native.  Restarted the reporting services config tool and it now shows Integrated mode.
• Now that’s done I’m downloading and installing the reporting services add-in
• There is only one (ie no 32bit 64bit choice) presume it will be ok
• Ran straight from msi (i.e. no cmd SKIPCA… blah blah)
• Installer closed when it finished so missed whether it said it succeeded or not – opening central admin to check
• Aha! I’ve now go the Reporting Services section in ‘General Application Settings’
• First up – ‘Reporting Services Integration’
• There’s a new feature here – It lets you activate reporting services feature on all or specific site collections, you used to go into site collection features to do this.
• Activate site collection feature failed so I’ve gone off to try and do it manually, feature seems to have a new name (unless Im going wrong which is highly possible!) I can only see a feature called ‘Report Server File Sync)  bit more googling required I think!
• Its because Im not at the site collection level (just the site level) so dont have ‘Site Collection Features’ list
• Tried to navigate to high level site collection but administrator didnt have access, signed in as sharepoint installer account instead which worked
• Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection Features
• Activated ‘Report Server Integration Feature’
• Now back to central admin to finish Reporting Services configuration
• ‘Add a report server to the integration’ – my server name was already there as this is a single server install, clicked ok and entered administrator credentials
• ‘Set Server Defaults’ – not expecting to change anything here but like to look anyway as its a good indicator of whether everything is playing nicely together
• Right, I think all thats left is to add the report server content types to the doc libraries.
• Actually, scratch that – Just remembered I’ve created this ‘Business Intelligence Center’ web site but what I want is a ‘Report Centre’ or at least thats what it used to be, trying to create a sub site using ‘Report Centre’ template which should have come with the reporting services addin.
• Ok Report Centre isnt there – Just ‘Business Intelligence Center’ which I’ve already created, another trip to Google to find out the deal here…
• Thanks to this blog http://www.toddbaginski.com/blog/archive/2009/11/20/which-sharepoint-2010-site-template-is-right-for-me.aspx I found out Report Center has been deprecated – So I’ll carry on with my ‘Business Intelligence Center’ site.
• All Site Content -> Create -> Asset Library (It appears Report Library is deprecated – http://business-intelligence.kdejonge.net/installing-ssrs-2008-r2-on-sharepoint-2010)
• I’ve named it Report Library (will probably confuse me later!)
• Hey now I have the ribbon like in Office 2007, clicked Library settings then ‘add from existing site content types’ added the report server content types.
• Went into Data Connections, Library Settings (as above) added the report data source content type
• Now it’s ready for uploading reports

Stopping this blog here – Might do another one on new features once I’ve played with it a bit.