Also forgot to say check the bindings on the other sites to see what else is using port 80 - don't worry about changing anything at the moment just report back your findings.
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SBS 2008 Sharepoint and default website down
Last desperate try before I reinstall the machine:
I am running a fresh 2008 SBS. Standard setup without migration - everything should be clean.
When setting up exchange, I noticed that some wizards regarding internet names and certificates do not work. On research I learned, that the default web site is down and sharepoint reports errors - this seems to be the cause of all despair.
In IIS Manager Sites -> Default Web Site is marked down. When I try to start it, I get "website could not be started - possibly another web site is using the same port". Needless to say I did not change anything from default setup and I did not install any software that might block Port 80. When I stop the service and try to access Port 80 nothing answers.
Also in system log I get a lot of 5586 and 3760 Errors of unknow origin. The first one states "unknow SQL-Exception 2812. COuld not find stored procedure 'dbo.proc_getNewObects'.
The latter states that some cryptic SQL-Database "SharePoint_Config_ad586..
Cannot open database "SharePoint_Config_ad56896
Login failed for user 'NT-AUTHORITY\NETWORK_SERV
(I am using German language version - some translations might be inaccurate)
After default Installation I installed Symantec BackupExec 12.5 with patches - other than that the machine is running Fujitsu default Server Management tools and nothing else.
Any hits in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
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Also have a look at the SBS repair guide: http://technet.microsoft.c
Your soothing tone feels so good to hear.
This is what I found:
Sitebindings for Sharepoint:
http Companyweb 80 *
https 987 *
Other Services on Port 80:
default Web site with no hostname
SBS Web Applications with internal and dyndns hostname
SBS Client deployment with hostname SBSConnectComputer
BackupExec is uninstalling right now - reboot pending.
The repair guide does not really help.
I can't execute most commands because I can't i.e. access SharePoint Administration.
I remember one thing though:
During setup of SBS you are forced to create a administrator account I named it - let's say admin1. After setup I created another administrator account ("admin2") in SBS and later deleted the inital administrator admin1 because I had some profile issues on another machine in the domain.
There is an article in the repair guide which talks about this issue. It seems that the original administrator is owner of the sharepoint site and if it is deleted, that causes trouble.
I am unable to execute the commands stated, though. It seems the service is not listening. I don't get a decent error message, thogh. It only sais "error in command line" or something of the sort.
Could this be the root of all evil?
Have a look here for recreating administrator account and access: http://technet.microsoft.c
Status:
I recreated the initial admin account with the same password.
I also activated the "Administrator" account in Active Directory Users and Computers, and assigned a known password.
In addition I have the current SBS-created admin account.
Systemwise I can log on as all three. I cannot access the SharePoint admin site at all. I get "Connection to configuration database could not be established" or something of the sort.
Just now I rebooted the machine to look and see if SharePoint will boot now that it's initial user credentials are valid again.
Ok I think your best bet is to remove the intranet component by modifying the Small Business Server setup in add/remove programs reboit then reinstall it, when you remove it make sure you remove the contents of the sharepoint SQL folder in program files under SQL server, sorry cannot remember exact path.
I think I found something:
In the event log of IIS in Server Manager I found events stating that the problem with default web site is not prot 80 but 443.
Checking the bindings I found that indeed 443 is bound without a hostname to default and share point.
On another SBS-Machine default web site has no binding on port 443.
Bizarre - I did not touch that.
Should I change it?
I have a bit of trouble finding the corresponding tools in the German language Version. I think what you mean is the sharepoint administration website at http://hostname:24449 ? No - I can't access that. I get "Connection to configuration database could not be established"
No sorry it's not that one, in the UK version it appears under this one on the list.
Click Start > Administration tools > SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard
In google translator it translates it as: SharePoint-Produkte und-Technologien-Konfigura
I know that's a literal translation but that's the best I can do, I don't speak German unfortunately ;-)
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by: demazterPosted on 2009-08-15 at 01:21:07ID: 25104552
Ok the first thing sounds like another website is using the same port as the comapnyweb.
Go to the IIS manager.
Open the server, then sites.
Click SBS Sharepoint.
Choose bindings on the right.
Make sure the host header companyweb on port 80
backupexec installs it's own SQLExpress instance so this could possibly be interfering with sharepoint the first thing is to remove backupexec to rule that out and then restart.