MashPoint Installation Guide

First download MashPoint, then extract the .zip archive onto the desktop of the Web Front End that hosts Central Administration. 

Run Setup.bat.

Select "Bamboo MashPoint" under "Components," and click "Install."  This will launch the setup program.

Click "Next."

The setup program will verify that you have enough permission to install and deploy SharePoint solutions, and that all required services are running.  If any of the checks fail, make sure you are logged on as a user with enough permissions.  A local administrator should have enough permissions.

The next screen shows you where the solution will be deployed, the only option here is the Central Administration Web Application, so click "Next."

The install will wait max 15 minutes for the deployment job to complete.

After this you should see the following screen:

You have now successfully installed MashPoint and the Bamboo Shared Services administration. Now it's time to activate the feature in Central Admin.

 Start SharePoint Central Administration and navigate to the Site Settings page.

Select "Site collection features" under "Site Collection Administration."

Activate the Bamboo Shared Services Administration feature and you should see a new menu on the top link bar:  Bamboo Shared Services Administrator.

Before we create a Bamboo Shared Service, we need to create a new Web Application to host it. (This is not required, you can pick an existing Web Application but it's suggested that you create a new one).

I won't describe how to create a Web Application. 

I created a new Web Application called BambooSSP1 to host our new Bamboo Shared Service.

So now when we have the Web Application it's time to create the Shared Service. Click on the "Bamboo Shared Services Administrator" link.

Click the New BSS button.

Choose a name for your Shared Service then select the Web Application that will host the Shared Service, and click "OK."  This process will take a few seconds and then you will be redirected back to the list view where you should see your newly created Shared Service.

The next step is to associate the Shared Service with existing Web Applications. By default, the service is always associated with the Web Application that hosts it.

We will choose to associate the default web site with this service so click "Change Associations."

Select the Web Applications you want to associate and click "OK."

Now you will see that the associations have been updated with SharePoint 80.

Now let's navigate to the Shared Service.  Click on the link that corresponds to BambooSharedService1.

In the next section, we will upload a couple of Application Definition files into MashPoint.  We'll begin by installing the AdventureWorks sample.