This is part 2 out of two parts talking about SharePoint hardening with SCW. In part 1 I went through the basic steps to setup a sharepoint2010 security server hardening (lockdown) and on this part will go through some related issues about the outcome of this tool. On part 1 we built the policy and...

This is part 1 out of two parts talking about Sharepoint hardening with SCW. In this part will show the basic steps to setup a sharepoint2010 security server hardening (lockdown) and with part 2 will go through some related issues about the outcome of this tool. SharePoint uses several technologies to...

The issue I want to highlight on this post happens if the command or the configuration wizard failed on the second step. After the configuration wizard fails it gives the following error message on the PSCDiagnostics logfile: ERR Failed to create the configuration database. An exception of type System...

When you're planning your log event size keep in mind you may need to pay attention for the following points: - The recommended logs size for Win server 2003 is 300MB for all logs combined http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183097 , if you exceed the 300MB then you might face some performance issues...