Installing the Jive SBS SharePoint Connector

Use the instructions in this topic to install the SharePoint Connector. You must be logged directly into a SharePoint server using a SharePoint Administrator user account. This only needs to be performed on one server in the SharePoint farm (it will be disseminated to the others). See Special Cases for additional installation/configuration scenarios.

Note: If you use the installer to uninstall the features and subsequently install the features to only a subset of the site collections, it will activate the features on site collections not chosen the second time around if they were chosen the first time and the web application for the feature was also chosen. If you manually deactivate the features before uninstalling with the installer, they will not be activated the next time the installer runs unless chosen during the install.

Overview

The following section walks through the general procedure for installing the Jive SharePoint Connector in the SharePoint environment. The procedure will install the following items in SharePoint.

Jive-specific Central Administration screens (see SharePoint Central Administration)
Jive-specific Site Administration (Site Settings) screens (see SharePoint Site Settings)
Jive Places web part (see Using the Places Web Part)
Jive Recent Content web part (see Using the Recent Content Web Part)
Jive "Watch a Tag" web part (see Using the "Watch a Tag" Web Part)
Jive Federated Search web part (see Using the Federated Search Web Part)
Jive Freedom web part (see Using the Freedom Web Part)
"Copy To Jive" Functionality (Workflow, SharePoint Designer Activity, Context Menu)
Socialization Features (Status, enable/disable Context Menu, User Popup)
Back end services used by both the SharePoint web parts and Jive widgets

Installation Steps

Note: Note that when installing, each target web application for the install will experience a web application restart as part of the installation process.

Download the Jive SharePoint Connector installation zip from the location where you found this document. Place the download in a desired location on your environment (such as a new folder on the Desktop).
Unzip the installation zip, then locate a file named Jive_SP_Connector_NetApplication_xxx.zip within it (where "xxx" is the version number). Unzip this file into a new folder.
Open the new folder from step 2 and click Setup_Jive.SharePoint.exe.
If you are running Windows Server 2008, if you're prompted with the Open File - Security Warning dialog box, click Run.
In the Jive SharePoint Connector welcome dialog box, click Next.
In the System Check dialog box, if all prerequisites pass, click Next (otherwise see Special Cases ).
In the End-User License Agreement dialog box, read the license agreement, then select the I accept the terms in the License Agreement check box and click Next.
In the Site Collection Deployment Targets dialog box, choose the web application(s) and site collection(s) where you would like to deploy the Jive SBS SharePoint Connector (see following 2 screens). Click Next.
Note: The SharePoint web parts are typically not installed to the Central Administration web application. The web.config associated with each targeted SharePoint web application will be modified as discussed in Changes to web.config On Installation.

Note: See Deploying to New Web Applications and Site Collections if you want to deploy to new web applications or site collections sometime later after the install process has completed.
In the Installing dialog box, allow the installation to complete, then click Next.
In the Installation Successfully Completed dialog box, review the status of the installation, then click Close.
Note: If you get errors on activating site collection features, it might be because the current account running the installer (a farm administrator) is not a site collection administrator for those site collections. For each of these site collections you will need to log into them as a site collection administrator and go to Site Settings > Site Collection Features and activate the "Jive Web Parts" and "Jive Copy To Workflow" features. See also Deploying to New Web Applications and Site Collections.
Please see Managing Jive Installations for details on configuring Jive installations to use in SharePoint.
Important: Please ensure the Jive components for the SharePoint Connector have been installed in Jive SBS before continuing.
After installing please restart the Central Administration application pool to see the Jive-related links within Central Administration. This can be done by running IISRESET from a command line on each web front end, but that will also restart all application pools and not just the Central Adminstration application pool.

Note:

If you have SharePoint configured such that you have a server with Central Administration and no other web applications, then you won't be able to use the central administration screens provided with the connector. To remedy this, you can manually deploy the components to the web application and copy resource files to the App_GlobalResources directory. To do that, deploy the Jive.Sharepoint.wsp solution to the central admin web application (see Manually Installing Jive SBS SharePoint Connector for more information). After you deploy, manually copy all JiveGlobalResources.* files from <12 Hive>\Resources to <central admin virtual directory>\App_GlobalResources. For example, copy C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\Resources\JiveGlobalResources.* to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\12345\App_GlobalResources.