An Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Marker called Service Connection Point identifies the SharePoint 2010 Products servers in an organization. To use this marker, create a container in AD DS and set the permissions for the container before you install any SharePoint 2010 Products in the environment. Then, when you or another user in your domain runs the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard as part of installing SharePoint Server 2010, this marker is set, and can be tracked by using AD DS. You must set this marker for each domain that you have in your organization if you want to track installations in all domains. This marker is removed from AD DS when the last server is removed from a farm. You can also set the marker by using Windows PowerShell. The marker contains the URL for the Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service (also known as the topology service application) for the server farm.
You have to grant permission to write to this container to any user accounts or domain accounts that could run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. If the account does not have permission to write to this container, the following warning will appear in the log file for the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard:
Failed to add the service connection point for this farm
Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.”
To create the container in Active Directory and set the permissions, you can use Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) Edit.
1. On the domain controller, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click ADSI Edit, or use a remote administration tool to connect to ADSI Edit from another computer.
2. On the Action menu, click Connect to, and connect to the domain that you want to use.
3. In the console tree, expand the connection, expand the domain name, and then click CN=System.
4. In the details pane, right-click in the white area, click New, and then click Object.
5. In the Create Object dialog box, in the Select a class box, click container and then click Next.
6. In the Value box, type Microsoft SharePoint Products as the container name, and then click Next.
This is the default name.
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7. Click Finish.
The container is created.
8. Right click the container (CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products), and then click Properties.
9. On the Security tab, click Add.
10. In the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups box, add the users that you want to write to this container, and then click OK.
Note that if a user who cannot write to this container installs SharePoint Server 2010, no new entry will be created. Consider giving all Authenticated Users the permission so that you can track all the objects.
11. In the Group or user names box, select the names that you previously added, and then under the Permissions box, click Advanced.
12. In the Permission entries box, select the names that you previously added, and then click Edit.
13. In the Permission Entry for Microsoft SharePoint Products dialog box, in the Permissions box, select the Allow check box for Create serviceConnectionPoint objects, and then click OK.
To validate this process, install and provision a new SharePoint farm in the environment, and check whether the service connection point was created successfully. If everything works, you can find a new GUID object under the Microsoft SharePoint Product container. Right-click the object, and then click Properties. The URL for the server farm’s Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service will be listed.
A script is available that lists all the SharePoint 2010 Products server names in a domain. To get the script, see List all SharePoint 2010 boxes in a domain by checking AD Marker (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/af31bded-f33f-4c38-a4e8-eaa2fab1c459) in the Script Center.
Use the following procedure to add or update the service connection point for the current farm in AD DS.
To set a service connection point in AD DS by using Windows PowerShell
1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: See Add-SPShellAdmin.
2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
3. Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
4. Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
5. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command.
| Set-SPFarmConfig -ServiceConnectionPointBindingInformation StringwithBindingInformation |
Where:
· StringwithBindingInformation is usually the URL for the Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service. Note that this variable can contain any valid string you prefer, such as the URL for Central Administration, instead.
To get the URL for the Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service, run the following command.
| Get-SPTopologyServiceApplication | select URI |
This returns the URL for the Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service. For more information, see Get-SPTopologyServiceApplication (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/fc40e2b8-5710-4034-b37f-b4e61008410a(Office.14).aspx).
6. When asked to confirm this action, type Y.
For more information, see Set-SPFarmConfig (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/fc9fd625-0df1-467a-bd31-16b7e29fbca9(Office.14).aspx).
Use the following procedure to delete the service connection point for the current farm in AD DS.
To delete a service connection point in AD DS by using Windows PowerShell
1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: See Add-SPShellAdmin.
2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
3. Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
4. Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
5. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command.
| Set-SPFarmConfig -ServiceConnectionPointDelete |
6. When asked to confirm this action, type Y.
For more information, see Set-SPFarmConfig (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/fc9fd625-0df1-467a-bd31-16b7e29fbca9(Office.14).aspx).
Use the following procedure to determine the service connection point information for the current farm in AD DS.
To find the service connection point for a farm by using Windows PowerShell
1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: See Add-SPShellAdmin.
2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
3. Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
4. Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
5. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command.
| Get-SPFarmConfig -ServiceConnectionPoint |
For more information, see Get-SPFarmConfig (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/83a26555-6b6e-4959-9a6a-bdef049de2a2(Office.14).aspx).
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