Configuring Multi-Tenancy in SharePoint 2010

Create a SubscriptionSettings Service Application and Proxy

Subscription settings service application is used to keep track of Multi - Tenant services and subscription ID's. So go to the below path

Start the  Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service

Central Administration => Application Management => Manage services on server
Start the service "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service".

Create Service Application and Proxy via PowerShell

 $appPool  =  New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name Subscription_Settings_Service_Pool -Account Domain\UserName

$sa = new-spsubscriptionsettingsserviceapplication –Name SubscriptionSettingsServiceApplication –Databasename SubscriptionSettingsServiceApplicationDB –applicationpool $appPool

$sap = new-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplicationProxy –ServiceApplication $sa

Create Tenant Administration site

New-SPSite –url "http://<servername>:<port no>/sites/Tenant Administration" –template "tenantadmin#0" –owneralias Domain\UserName –sitesubscription $subscription -AdministrationSiteType TenantAdministration

Create Member Site

Before creating the Member\Tenant Site enable the Self Service Site Creation of the Web Application.

Click Manage Site Collection under SharePoint Site Section on the Tenant Administration Site

Click New  and enter the required information  then click ok.

Reference : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/04/03/sharepoint-2010-multi-tenant-hosting-part-2-configuring.aspx

 

How to Find the SharePoint 2010 Installed version

Go to the Registry of the Below path and Identify the GUID of installed SKU's


HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\InstalledProducts

• BEED1F75-C398-4447-AEF1-E66E1F0DF91E: SharePoint Foundation 2010
• 1328E89E-7EC8-4F7E-809E-7E945796E511: Search Server Express 2010
• B2C0B444-3914-4ACB-A0B8-7CF50A8F7AA0: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Trial
• 3FDFBCC8-B3E4-4482-91FA-122C6432805C: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
• 88BED06D-8C6B-4E62-AB01-546D6005FE97: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Trial
• D5595F62-449B-4061-B0B2-0CBAD410BB51: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
• BC4C1C97-9013-4033-A0DD-9DC9E6D6C887: Search Server 2010 Trial
• 08460AA2-A176-442C-BDCA-26928704D80B: Search Server 2010
• 84902853-59F6-4B20-BC7C-DE4F419FEFAD: Project Server 2010 Trial
• ED21638F-97FF-4A65-AD9B-6889B93065E2: Project Server 2010
• 926E4E17-087B-47D1-8BD7-91A394BC6196: Office Web Companions 2010 

use the below PowerShell command to get the GUID of the Installed SKUs.
 get-spfarm | select Products

Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff721969.aspx

Rename a SharePoint Server machine name

There are number of concerns that contribute to defining the process that you will be taking to change a machine name for a SharePoint server.

Make sure you execute the following steps in order:

• Run the following command:
  Stsadm.exe -o renameserver -oldservername <OLD_SERVER_NAME> -newservername <NEW_SERVER_NAME>
• Rename the machine name from the computer properties
• Reboot the machine
• Update credentials (if required) if you are using domain accounts and the account didn’t change you can skip this step 
  stsadm –o updatefarmcredentials –userlogin <NEW_SERVER_NAME>\username -password ********
  stsadm –o osearch –farmserviceaccount <NEW_SERVER_NAME>\username -farmservicepassword ********
  
  stsadm –o spsearch –farmserviceaccount <NEW_SERVER_NAME>\username -farmservicepassword ********
  
  stsadm –o editssp –title “SHARED_SERVICE_TITLE” -ssplogin <NEW_SERVER_NAME>\username -ssppassword ********
  
• Run the this command to reset the IIS: IISRESET /NOFORCE
• Fix the Alternate access mappings
   If you are not able to get into the central admin site yet run the following command:
      stsadm -o addalternatedomain -url http://<OLD_SERVER_NAME>:<CENTRAL_ADMIN_PORT> -urlzone extranet –incoming url http://<NEW_SERVER_NAME>: <CENTRAL_ADMIN_PORT>
  
  Now you should be able to go to the central admin to clean the miss in the AAM. Basicly rename all the old server names into the new server name.
• Now through the central administration or command line, make sure that you have the right credentials for the app pools (again if you are using domain users you shouldn’t worry about this at all)
• Reboot the machine
• Now run the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration wizard to seal the deal
• Reboot the machine
• If you get the error related to SQL Server check your Database settings and make sure that they are correct. You can use stsadm to reset the config db name if the server name has changed and the same thing with the content DBs
• If you do any changes to the DB settings make sure that your run: "IISRESET /NOFORCE" afterwards
• After all that, if you have the db on the same machine as the sharepoint that means that you probably need to take care of the sql server settings (server name change) do run the following SQL Queries:
•     -In case you use the default or no sql instance name:
  
  EXEC sp_dropserver '<OLD_SERVER_NAME>'
  GO
  EXEC sp_addserver '<NEW_SERVER_NAME>', 'local'
  GO
  
•     -In case you use a custom sql instance name:
  sp_dropserver <’OLD_SERVER_NAME\instancename'>
  GO
  sp_addserver <'NEW_SERVER_NAME\instancename'>, local
  GO
• Then restart the Sql Service to take effect

SharePoint supported languages, culture names and locale IDs

Download the language pack from
here

Language Name	Culture Name	Locale ID
Arabic	ar-sa	1025
Bulgarian	bg-bg	1026
Catalan	ca-es	1027
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-cn	2052
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)	zh-tw	1028
Croatian	hr-hr	1050
Czech	cs-cz	1029
Danish	da-dk	1030
Dutch	nl-nl	1043
English	en-us	1033
Estonian	et-ee	1061
Finnish	fi-fi	1035
French	fr-fr	1036
German	de-de	1031
Greek	el-gr	1032
Hebrew	he-il	1037
Hindi	hi-in	1081
Hungarian	hu-hu	1038
Italian	it-it	1040
Japanese	ja-jp	1041
Kazakh	kk-kz	1087
Korean	ko-kr	1042
Latvian	lv-lv	1062
Lithuanian	lt-lt	1063
Norwegian (Bokmål)	nb-no	1044
Polish	pl-pl	1045
Portuguese (Brazil)	pt-br	1046
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-pt	2070
Romanian	ro-ro	1048
Russian	ru-ru	1049
Serbian (Latin)	sr-latn-cs	2074
Slovak	sk-sk	1051
Slovenian	sl-si	1060
Spanish	es-es	3082
Swedish	sv-se	1053
Thai	th-th	1054
Turkish	tr-tr	1055
Ukrainian	uk-ua	1058