Monday, March 29, 2010

Augmented Reality Interview for AOL News

I recently did an interview about Augmented Reality for an AOL News site (www.asylum.com). A few years ago, I co-wrote a book about Augmented Reality that was based on the work of Dr. Mark Fiala—an old friend of mine and creator of the ARTag marker system.

The writer was interested in a number of AR applications that have started to make it into mainstream culture. For example, AR tattoos are apparently gaining popularity (see video below).

- Augmented Reality tattoo

Friday, March 19, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Config Wizard Error

I was getting this error when trying to run the configuration wizard for the SharePoint 2010 RC Hyper-V Image.

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In the wizard, I was specifying a domain account with sufficient permissions, but I still got the access denied error. The solution was quite simple, I had forgotten that I was logged into the machine as the local admin account—not a domain account. The config wizard needs to read some info about the domain account you’re using for the setup. When I switched users to my own domain account, the wizard ran successfully.

Here’s a snipped from the install log:

Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception 03/19/2010 06:38:14  9  ERR                    Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred while getting information about the user SharePointAdmin at server internal: Access is denied

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Win32.SPNetApi32.NetUserGetInfo1(String server, String name
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPManagedAccount.GetUserAccountControl(String username)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPManagedAccount.Update()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPProcessIdentity.Update()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPApplicationPool.Update()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.CreateDefaultInstance(SPWebService service, Guid id, String applicationPoolId, SPProcessAccount processAccount, String iisServerComment, Boolean secureSocketsLayer, String iisHostHeader, Int32 iisPort, Boolean iisAllowAnonymous, DirectoryInfo iisRootDirectory, Uri defaultZoneUri, Boolean iisEnsureNTLM, Boolean createDatabase, String databaseServer, String databaseName, String databaseUsername, String databasePassword, SPSearchServiceInstance searchServiceInstance, Boolean autoActivateFeatures)