This problem proved a real puzzler for me - but the guys on the K2 underground came through with a good answer - the Application Pool Identity of the Moss Site Collection must be part of the Farm Administrators group. (Which makes sense when you think about it. The K2 web services are running under the App pool identity of the site collection, and they’re trying to deploy features to the farm…)
Unfortunately, I then suffered a second problem - and error of ‘Value cannot be null’ when trying to deploy a workflow associated with a SharePoint Content Type. Sadly, all this was worked on last minute just before Christmas, so I’ve forgotten a lot of what I did to my machine. I met with some of the guys from K2 who were very helpful, and we did quite a lot. My memories are:
- Installed SP1 for [blackpearl]
- Installed Office 2007 (I was in a hurry and forgot, okay?)
- Stopped trying to associate the workflow with a content type and instead associated it with a specific list - which worked for the demo, but associating with the content type is a far, far cooler idea.
- Changed my form to allow “Cross-Domain Access for User Form Templates” and changed the data connection timeouts in SharePoint to be longer - as several of the guys in the thread noted, this does seem to be an issue with K2 workflows in VMs - but then my 2GB RAM machine was running a VM with MOSS, SQL2005, K2 and a DC, SMTP and POP services on it.
- Gave more rights to K2 to some of the users. I had to give the App pool more permissions than I had, in order to allow it to display worklists, which also makes sense.
- Sorted out a misconfiguration in IIS.
I’m sure I’ve missed other things, but it was so long ago now, I can’t quite remember. The only other thing I can remember doing was sitting around a lot waiting for everthing to work. The applications were quick enough when they’d been compiled, but that meant that the first time I hit some of the pages, well, there was a lot of waiting. And errors from timeouts. Particularly we had problems with contacting SQL Reporting Services from some of the K2 wizards, but found that if you waited a moment or two and then tried again then they were okay.
