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We installed SBS 2011 (Sharepoint 2010) a couple of years ago and it's running fine. We never used Sharepoint features.

Now we wanted to explore Workflow features so I went to http://sites and logged in as a Sharepoint administrator (successfully).

My problem is that whenever I need to go into the web-based Sharepoint Designer, I get an error. The designer is active on the server, it should be available at https://sites:987, but I always get Connection reset when I browse to that address.

I even tried momentarily bringing down the Server Firewall to check if it was a firewall problem, but the same thing happens...

A distinctive circumstance of this server is that it is not connected to the Internet(that's a company requirement, I can connect occasionally for updates, but not permanently). I've been told this shouldn't be a problem for what I'm trying to do.

Can you please advise, and help me troubleshoot? Thank you.

pgr
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Microsoft provides a helpful guide on TechNet for repairing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows Small Business Server 2011. You can complete the following repair steps without deleting any existing data:

  1. Repair the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Domain Name System
  2. Repair user access to the internal website
  3. Repair user access to SharePoint Foundation 2010

If these repair attempts fail, your next step is to Recreate your SharePoint Foundation 2010 application and content database. This step is more invasive but still leaves you with your own data, as noted in the article:

This topic describes the steps necessary to repair the Windows SBS SharePoint web application and content database. If you experience problems with a different SharePoint Foundation 2010 web application, you can follow the steps in this topic to repair the content database for that application.

This is a lot of work to save content you've never created. If I were in your shoes I'd jump right to the end and Reinstall SharePoint Foundation 2010. No, you don't walk away knowing exactly what broke your old environment, but you will probably save yourself a lot of time chasing an answer that may never be found anyway.

I say Reinstate Monica
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