We recently added a WFE to our SharePoint farm and we see that we are getting errors with Workflows running on BDC lists and using Secure store.On checking the logs in the WFE which looks like a communication error when requesting to the Securestoreservice WCF in the application server. On checking the registry, we see that TLS 1.2 is enabled in the new WFE but do not see similar registry structure for TLS 1.2 in the App Server to which the request is sent. We do not see the TLS 1.2 registry directory in the other existing WFE Servers as well

Would help if somebody can provide a solution to the problem.

Error Logs:

Logging unknown/unexpected client side exception: CommunicationException. This will cause this application server to be removed from the load balancer queue. Exception: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to https://appspserver:32844/4c2988eb0b7b4f41bc2c3c5be3d31797/SecureStoreService.svc/https. This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol. This could also be due to an HTTP request context being aborted by the server (possibly due to the service shutting down). See server logs for more details. ---> System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm    

Hello,

I am dealing with a SharePoint 2013 farm (configuration database version 15.0.5127.1000) and noticing the following error in ULS:

Can anyone tell me what maybe the cause of this?

Thank you,

Rumi

Hi,

I am on SharePoint foundation 2013 version, I am trying to edit the list using DataSheet however its giving error as,

The Datasheet view of this list cannot be displayed. Please make sure you have office client installed, and that you are using internet explorer 32 bit. Also, if you are running office 2013, or windows 8, you might need to install Data Connectivity Services from Microsoft before you can use the datasheet control.

I am on office 365 pack.

Any pointer for this would be very helpful.

Hi,

I have just installed SharePoint foundation 2013 on my server. I have created new site collection.

I can access this newly created site collection from my server locally. 

However when I am trying to access this site collection from another machine (same network) or my own machine its continuously asking me user name and password. Even after entering correct credentials, the prompt continues and nothing is happening ahead. 

Hello Team, I just added new server in the SP2013 farm and trying to turn on distributed cache service from CA (want to add to cache cluster) and It says "Error starting".

i ran below PS  

Get-SPServiceInstance|? {($_.service.tostring())-eq"SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService"}|select Server, Status

and It says the DC is "disabled" on the server.

So question is how can i start it?

Please help. 

Thanks.

Hello,

I want to use the mylink webpart for the employees to customize their individual links but I don't have mysite configured for employees. How do I download or display my link from mysite? I believe my link from mysite will work in any site collection

Thanks

Shri

Our users share folders from Office 365/SharePoint Online libraries with external parties. External parties don't have any permissions on SharePoint.

Many users who access shared links from their mobile phone can see the folder but not any content in it.  I am the Site Collection Admin and I can see the folder and its content using my phone.

I am trying to troubleshoot this. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Mayank Shyam

Can someone point me to some complete documentation of migration from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016?

Thanks,

Michael Williams

SharePoint Engineer - Mike

We are using SharePoint + Project Server 2013 with Workflow Manager. Recently the certificate of the Workflow Manager has expired and we were having trouble renewing the certificate. After we renew the cert, the workflow stopped working and we ended up require to register a new workflow scope to SharePoint.

Although we were able to register with new scope and the workflow can start, the steps in the workflow does not seem to run by the Workflow Manager and there were no errors found in the SharePoint, Workflow Manager logs. We can only find the following warning in the Service Bus event log.

Does anyone know the reason why this occurred? Many thanks in advance.

Log Name: Microsoft-ServiceBus/Operational Source: Microsoft-ServiceBus Date: 9/17/2019 4:00:52 PM Event ID: 30504 Task Category: (35030) Level: Warning Keywords: Broker User: xxxxxxxxxx Computer: xxxxxxxxxx Description: SQL command processing error. Database info: pmodb\SBMessageContainer01. Exception command text: [dbo].[OperateOnSubscription], exception = Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.MessagingEntityAlreadyExistsException: workflowdefaultnamespace:Topic:projectserver/default/c0aec0db-0306-4e77-bff4-3a53dd6683f9/ad195013-8cbd-4958-bd11-ee6293c178c6/wftopic|MTW at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Messaging.Broker.Sql.CreateOrUpdateSubscriptionAsyncResult.ProcessSqlResult(SqlDataReader reader) at Microsoft.Cloud.ServiceBus.Common.Sql.SqlStoreAsyncResult.SqlCommandAsyncResultCallback(IAsyncResult result). TrackingId: 577f90c7-3a6c-4d99-a9ae-d5a28b472913_Gpmoapp_Bpmoapp, SubsystemId: workflowdefaultnamespace:Topic:projectserver/default/c0aec0db-0306-4e77-bff4-3a53dd6683f9/ad195013-8cbd-4958-bd11-ee6293c178c6/wftopic|MTW. Event Xml: 30504 0 3 35030 0 0x4000400000000000 505255 Microsoft-ServiceBus/Operational xxxxxxxxxx 577f90c7-3a6c-4d99-a9ae-d5a28b472913_Gpmoapp_Bpmoapp workflowdefaultnamespace:Topic:projectserver/default/c0aec0db-0306-4e77-bff4-3a53dd6683f9/ad195013-8cbd-4958-bd11-ee6293c178c6/wftopic|MTW pmodb\SBMessageContainer01 command text: [dbo].[OperateOnSubscription], exception = Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.MessagingEntityAlreadyExistsException: workflowdefaultnamespace:Topic:projectserver/default/c0aec0db-0306-4e77-bff4-3a53dd6683f9/ad195013-8cbd-4958-bd11-ee6293c178c6/wftopic|MTW at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Messaging.Broker.Sql.CreateOrUpdateSubscriptionAsyncResult.ProcessSqlResult(SqlDataReader reader) at Microsoft.Cloud.ServiceBus.Common.Sql.SqlStoreAsyncResult.SqlCommandAsyncResultCallback(IAsyncResult result)

Hi All,

I would like to know what all are the limitations that we have to face while migrating content from sharepoint 2010 farm to Sharepoint 2013 farm. I know there are two approach for this 1) Using DB Attach Detach and 2) Using Tools like avapoint or sharegate etc. My question is what is the difference between these two, what is the limitations of these two process. I know i few differences like, Using DB Attach detach process, the content and the workflows will be migrated but the customly coded wsps will not be migrated. Whereas while going for the Tools, the custom components can be migrated, but the workflows cannot be migrated. So i need to know the complete limitations,pros and cons of these two methods. Also let me know about the infopath migration as well.

Since you cannot upgrade WSS 3.0 directly to SharePoint Foundation 2013 using just the SharePoint software, I wanted to look at 3rd party tools that automate the migration directly to 2013 without requiring an intermediate upgrade to 2010.

We have a simple WSS 3.0 farm with 2 SharePoint Servers and 2 SQL servers that are are load balanced so that the site stays up if any one of the servers goes down.  It may be just round robin load balancing.

I'd like to see if I can determine if any of these migration tools would save enough time and effort for this type of environment to be worth the cost.  It would be nice if we could do the upgrade all in once day instead of having 2 outages.

So my organization will be migrating a large amount of data from File Share to Office 365. We are seriously considering purchasing Sharegate. Sounds like it is not only a good migration tool but also always developer/administrators to create reports to monitor various activities post migration.

What has your experience been? Any downsides?

Thanks for your feedback!

Mayank

Hello everybody,

we are planning a server migration and the customer wants to keep his SharePoint Foundation 2013 Server. Which are the highest versions of Windows Server and forest/domain functional levels supported by SharePoint 2013? That is, may we use 2019 DCs and functional levels?

Best Regards, Stefan Falk

Hello, 

We are working on migrating from SP2013 to SP2016

Current Set up:

we have 2 domains . Domain A (Internal users only) , Domain B (Internal and external users). There is selective trust between these domains. Servers are created only in Domain A . 

There are two URL's for the web app , one with windows Authentication and other with ADFS (External Domain B users). We always use ADFS URL for everything. 

New SP 2016 architecture. 

we will be using default 4 min role servers. As stated above all the servers are in Domain A including office online server.

1. When I am creating the office online farm I was wondering if it is safe to include FQDN in URL as below . What is the best practice to create URL considering this name will show up in the URL when users open a word doc in a browser. 

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalURL “http://<FQDN of the server>“ -ExternalUrl“https://<FQDN of the server>” -CertificateName <Friendly Name of the Certificate> -EditingEnabled

 2. As it is stated in the microsoft docs that "Office Online Server must reside in the same Active Directory forest as its users as well as any external data sources that you plan to access using Windows-based authentication."

 In SharePoint 2013 we heavily use excel services . Now when we migrate to SP2016, there is no excel service and only OOS server. Considering the statement above about servers and AD, will our external users logging in with ADFS be able to open these excel webparts ?

Thank you

@R

@R

We currently have 2 servers in the SP farm:   APP, WFE

I need to replace the APP server where Central Admin resides.    I am planning to add another server to the farm, so it will be APP, APP, WFE.   Once new APP is working properly, I will shutdown and take out the other one from farm.

When installing SharePoint on the new app server and running Products Configuration Wizard, can I specify the existing SharePoint_Config database as the Configuration Database Name?   I'd like to carry over all config/customizations info to new environment.

thanks

Hi Team,

We have an issue with Sharepoint integrated with TFS. We run a large on-premise instance of TFS, 23 collection dbs totalling > 4TB in data, with > 5000 users. 

We have 2 TFS App Tiers (primary/secondary) with Sharepoint installed on both. Sharepoint URL is behind a load balancer and uses HTTPS (as is TFS url). Sharepoint SQL databases are installed on a separate SQL instance to TFS collection databases.

Issue:

We had a port down alert on the Sharepoint SQL instance on 3rd September, which lasted 10 minutes. After which, sharepoint stopped working.  After trying/checking various things we are now stuck and getting errors when trying to repair the TFS -> Sharepoint access grants via the TFS Admin console.

Our support team can access the Sharepoint Central Admin site on the primary app tier server only. However the portal sites are not available, and users receive an HTTP 500 error. Further, we get HTTP 200 errors when trying to repair the connection with TFS and the sharepoint sites.

Subset of log entries below:

TFS Admin Console, trying to reconfigure Sharepoint Extensions:

[Info  @17:44:15.794] Validating auto-configure for SharePoint Web application

[Info  @17:44:15.872] Validation Pending:  The user is not a farm administrator. Therefore, there must be an existing access grant between Team Foundation Server and SharePoint Products.

[Warning@17:44:15.872]

Exception Message: TF400324: Team Foundation services are not available from the server.

Technical information (for administrator):

 The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. (type TeamFoundationServiceUnavailableException)

Exception Stack Trace:   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.Channels.TfsHttpWebRequest.ReadResponse(HttpWebResponse webResponse, WebException webException)

  at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.Channels.TfsHttpWebRequest.SendRequest()

  at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.Channels.TfsHttpRequestChannel.Request(TfsMessage message, TimeSpan timeout)

  at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.Channels.TfsHttpClientBase.Invoke(TfsClientOperation operation, Object[] parameters, TimeSpan timeout, Object[]& outputs)

  at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.SharePoint.SharePointTeamFoundationIntegrationService.CheckIsFarmAdministrator()

  at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Admin.SharePointConfigurationHelper.ValidateAutoconfigureWebApplication(Uri adminUrl, Uri siteUrl, ITFLogger logger)

TF255329: The following site could not be accessed: <site>. The server that you specified did not return the expected response. Either you have not installed the Team Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products on this server, or a firewall is blocking access to the specified site or the SharePoint Central Administration site.

TF255439: You do not have the permissions required to integrate with the following SharePoint Web application: <servername>. The validation check failed for the following user account: domain\service account.  This account must be a direct member of the Farm Administrators group on the web application.

Sharepoint ULS Log:

09/10/2019 15:37:39.67         w3wp.exe (0x2844)                              0x1854        SharePoint Foundation                Claims Authentication                fsq7        High           SPSecurityContext: Request for security token failed with exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Loading this assembly would produce a different grant set from other instances. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131401)    Server stack trace:     at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()    at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpOutput.WebRequestHttpOutput.GetOutputStream()    at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpOutput.Send(TimeSpan timeout)    at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory`1.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.SendRequest(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)    at System.ServiceModel.Channels.RequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)    at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.RequestChannelBinder.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)    at System.S...        89dc029f-17f6-507b-b038-f8471ce19ad1

Event Log:

Event ID 8306

An exception occurred when trying to issue a security token: Loading this assembly would produce a different grant set from other instances. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131401).

What we have tried:

• Confirmed support user is a member of the Farm Administrators group.
• Confirmed Sharepoint service account is a member of the Farm Administrators group.
• Checked connectivity between Sharepoint SQL Server and TFS App Tiers (where Sharepoint is installed) for service account and support user account.
• Checked SQL permissions on Sharepoint for service account and support user account.
• Rebooted all servers.
• Various IIS resets.
• Checked SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool is running.
• Confirmed 'Enable Kernel-mode authentication' is checked against 'Sharepoint Web Services' site.
• Database Status on Sharepoint Central Admin looks fine.
• Our UAT test environment has the same stack, and does not have this issue.

Our TFS Stack:

• TFS 2017 Update 3

• SharePoint Foundation 2013 with SP1
• SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SP4 (sharepoint)
• SQL Server 2016 Enterprise SP2 (TFS) in Always On configuration

Please assist as many users are affected.

Many thanks,

Scott.

HI there

I have clients that used Dropbox sharing via windows explorer interface to synchronise files and folders with various clients with my team. I have since moved over to Onedrive/SharePoint Business package, so how do i continue to share with clients who have basic onedrive packages, the sharepoint client folders i want various client to only access but work within their windows explorer, like i currently have it?

The is sharepoint and onedrive the same, ie if i share a sharepoint file, doe the client if registered with Onedrive pick that up automatically or does it have to be shared via onedrive only?

Hello,

I am using ShareGate to remove orphaned users from a site collection which is in its own content DB.  The Content DB is 300GB+.  It is removing the users at a turtle pace and making the site collection unresponsive - http 500.  As soon as I stop the orphaned user removal - the site comes back up shortly. 

What could be the issue here?  I have another site collection that was just under 300GB and removed the orphaned users very without any issues.  There are under 2000 orphaned users.

Any advice?

Thank you,

Rumi

Thank you for reading the case

Scenario:

I'm planning to have a list, only one list, for managers to fill in a questionnaire. They will have to answer the same questionnaire every year, so the list will grow over time. The data will be used for analysis and audit. It's an internal control questionnaire.

The managers are located in 100+ countries, and they may delegate filling out the form to some of their staff, but the send/confirm button is only for them to push (can manage this part by checking who the user is, but suggestions are welcome).

Here's the challenge I have:

The items on the list should only be visible by country; staff in other countries should not see the items for their colleagues abroad.

I may make the draft available only to the author, but if there's more than one author I don't know what to do; for example if the manager delegates the filling-in of the form two or three people in the same country should be able to see the draft answers.

Is there a way I can control the visibility of the items by creating a special group (or groups) or can you suggest a different solution?

I could create separate lists by country and merge them into a single one for analysis, but if possible I'd rather avoid that overhead.

All suggestions are more than welcome.

Thank you very much

Leonel

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