Understanding the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Rule File

re: Understanding the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Rule File

Snaap — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:30:30 GMT

Hi William,

Can you please help me out and tell me which exactly the best practice rules are?

Thanks!

re: Understanding the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Rule File

Bill Baer — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:17:51 GMT

The rules included in the packaged configuraton file define the basic best practices in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 installaton. Additional rules can be applied using the instructions above to tune the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System specific to your deployment.

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re: Understanding the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Rule File

Dave — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:39:33 GMT

Hi William Thank you for providing the Best Practises Guidance for setting rules. I have attempted to use the Best Practices Analyzer to resolve setup issues we're experiencing. Unfortunately We have not discovered a resolution by using the Best Practices Analyzer. We're able to obtain a report from the Best Practices Analyzer. We had hopefuly thought the Best Practices Analyzer would detect any outstanding issues. However, when we have used the generic Best Practices Analyzer the program fails to connect to the SQL database.

This is the workflow observed :

Beginning analysis using the following options:

Rules file: e:\folder\sharepointbpa.config.xml

report format: html

report output: something.html

Starting Collections Data phase

'Error connection to SQl Server' An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting etc etc... does not allow remote connections <provider: SQL Netwrok Interfaces, error 26 - Error location server/instance specified

Completed Collecting data phase,

Starting Postprocessing rules phase,

Completed Postprocessing rules phase,

The analysis is complete. A report can be viewed etc etc...

The report does not have any reference to the SQL connection failure or its condition.

Did the Best Practices Analyzer actually complete? How do we determine this error condition of a bad sql connection using the Best Practices Analyzer?

re: Understanding the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Rule File

Bill Baer — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:29:38 GMT

The default rules available the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System provide base verification rules to support a broad and varying range of SharePoint Products and Technologies deployments. The error indicates a possilbe connectivity issue between the machine on which the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System was run and the SQL database server. I would recommend first confirming connectivity from this machine to the SQL database server and additonally ensuring remote connections are enabled on the instance of SQL server you wish to connect to from the remote machine.

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