Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Some BlackPearl Install Notes 1

I just finished another install of K2 BlackPearl and ran into a couple things I had not run into in the past that you should know about.

1 – Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF)

Quick note if you are trying to install Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) and you have .Net 3 SP1 installed you will run into some issues. Use the following to help for some more information - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2912680&SiteID=1

You either need to un-install .Net 3.0, install the extensions and then upgrade to .Net 3.0 SP1.

If you do not want to do this the link above has a command line which should resolve the problem: msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1

2 – Installing Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005

This was weird. We installed Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 and then got an error in the K2 Workspace when trying to access Reporting Services saying we need to install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 SP1. We down loaded Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 SP1 (Full Installation) but that would never work.

The solution was to install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 then install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 SP1 (Upgrade). The upgrade is referenced in the Getting Starting document but the original distributable is not.

3 – DTC Configuration

The Getting Started document mentions this but do not forget to configure the DTC security configuration on SQL Server, the K2 Server and possibly on the MOSS server if MOSS and K2 on different machines. You will run into deployment issues if it is not configured on each machine.

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