SharePoint 2010 – Disaster Recovery

Recently out of normal development routine I was discussing with my development team regarding the IT side of SharePoint 2010.

One of the aspects we were discussing about was the “Disaster Recovery.” Being developers, “Disaster Recovery” was a mere term rather than an important IT aspect for them and I fastly realized it was slightly boring for them.

Post discussion I decided to give them some links so that they can refer when needed. Found out following were some of the links they can quickly read and understand.

Disaster Recovery for SharePoint 2010
Configure Disaster Recovery Farm with SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 – 10 Steps to Disaster Recovery

IIS Express – HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is invalid.

The following is the fix for the error “HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is invalid” when trying to browse an IIS Express site using a different host name or IP address.

1. Exit the IIS Express instant currently running.

2. Open IIS Express’s applicationhost.config located at the following path C:\Users\<user>\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config

3. Find the entry for a particular site (e.g “Test” running in port 6306) which you are developing.

e.g.

<site name="FlickrTest" id="10">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
        <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="E:\Projects\BB Apps\FlickrTest" />
    </application>
    <bindings>
        <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:6306:localhost" />
    </bindings>
</site>

4. Replace the following

bindingInformation=”*:6306:localhost” with bindingInformation=”*:6306:*

5. Save the file.

6. Start a command prompt in administrator mode and run the following command.

netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:6306/ user=Everyone

7. Now debug the site again and you should be able to access the url using IP address or host name.