We have a client using SharePoint 2013 On Premise. They have several site collections, Home, Projects, Teams, MySites, etc.

On the project site they created a site to be used as a template for other project sub sites. When they tried to use the template to create a site, it was throwing an error about the "HashTags" field (or "HashTags0" field) being duplicated.

On inspection, several columns named "HashTags" were listed in site columns. The duplicate column was removed from the site, and upon doing so, they all disappeared. Looking at the site with SharePoint Manager, the fields still existed, all with the same exact FieldID. This is a production site, so we were hesitant to try and delete these fields using SP Manager, without any understanding of why this was occurring in the first place. I have done some research and searches on the issue, and originally I was finding a mention of this, but it was in reference to Office365 SP, not On Premise. Now I am starting to see additional posts on the subject, and it seems like a known issue, but to my knowledge, Microsoft (outside of Office365 support) has not weighed in on the problem.

Now, in addition to the existing issue above, Last week the client expressed a desire to start using Newsfeeds outside of MySites. The Site Feed feature has been turned on at the root of the Site Collection for their Projects site, and also in a sub site for testing. When a conversation is input the following Error occurs

"We've hit a snag, Looks like the newsfeed was removed from the site, the site was deleted, or there's some temporary network problem. You can try again later or stop following the site from the sites page."

Viewing the ULS logs while trying to post to the newsfeed indicated an error with an invalid Field ID.  In researching the mentioned Field ID, sure enough, it is the HashTags field. The interesting thing is the newsfeed works fine on MySites, and within at least one other site collection in the farm.  Also notable, is that in the microfeed list where the newsfeed throws the error, the HashTags column is not present (or at least not from site settings as a site column), while it is displayed as a site column on the sites where the newsfeed is working.

Has anyone seen this issue, and been able to resolve, or at least determine why the field is getting duplicated to begin with?

Thank you,

Carl Frank

Carl Frank Consultant - Solve It, Inc

There is nothing on the net I can see regarding this issue so I thought I would add it here. 

I have a dev environment with SharePoint Server 2013, it is a new farm with a migrated/upgraded database from productioin environment. We wanted to add SP1 for this dev environment.

After downloading file, I ran the installer and clicked run. 

Next it asks to turn off forefront identity manager and service. I tried either selection on this screen and both failed. 

The failed message says "the installation of this package failed"

I have no idea where to research this any further as the error message was super generic. Has anyone else gotten this message when trying to install sp1 for sharepoint server 2013?

Hi, I'm trying to prevent anyone except site collection administrators from being able to break permissions inheritance on sub-sites (even site owners) in a site collection.  I tried to do this by removing the 'Manage permissions' and 'Create Groups' permissions from the 'Full Control' permission level thinking that this would prevent that. 

However, one of the site owners (who was in the 'Full Control' permissions group) was able to create a sub-site and select 'Use unique permissions', thereby creating a sub-site with broken permissions inheritance.

Are there other permissions that I need to remove from the 'Full Control' permission level to prevent this, or is preventing site owners from being able to break permissions inheritance not possible?         

Hi,

last week I created 2 new user profile properties via CA. First property named "HR - Manager" is mapped to AD attribute "manager". Second property named "HR - Assistant" is mapped to AD attribute "assistant". There was UP property "Manager" mapped to "manager" attribute already existing. After full sync run, the values in these properties are mixed.

Property Manager has assigned manager correctly, butHR - Manager property has assigned "assistent" property andHR - Assistent has assigned "manager" attribute. 

Another problem is mapping "seeAlso" and "secretary" attribute. These attributes are not available in dropdown while creating new property mapping. I also tried to create mapping using powershell script, but with no success. 

Everything else except these two mentioned problems is working fine, other properties are synchronized correctly. In MIISclient is everything with status succeeded.

I'm running SP 2013 with March CU.

Thank you in advance.

Marek

Hi.

I have tried to get Microsoft SharePoint 2013 running for a couple of weeks now without success.

First I installed it on an already existing Windiow Server 2012 computer, there was alot of problems to even run the install, The Preparation Tool setup gave some errors and when restarting it will just start over again. After ALOT of work it got running but the SharePoint itself did not work as expected, it gave exceptions when creating new website. If You are interested, look at this thread : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/9553f51b-2947-43c0-8370-009f6ffc2ab3/

I never got it to work even after days of work. So now I have got a new/fresh Windows Server 2012 computer, I have installed all the updates but I still have problems to install SharePoint 2013!? It demands me to run Microsoft SharePoint2013 Product Preparation Tool setup but when I do it ends with : 

There was an error during installation : Aplication Server Role. Web Server(IIS) Role: configuration error

I have googled and found some possible problems but none worked. So what is wrong with MS Sharepoint 2013? Why so much problems just to set it up?

I have worked with other simular programs before and even if there might have been problems thay have been easy to solve for the most part but SharePoint 2013 just demands ALOT of time and even then it does not run as it should?

Hello

I successfully setup task integration between Exchange and Sharepoint 2013. But every synchronized task has body in Plain Text format so every hyperlinks and formats were wiped out. Does anyone know how to make sync to use HTML format? or at least keep hyperlinks working?

I will very appreciate any clue

Hi there,

I am trying to understand what the different settings for Distributed Cache are supposed to be using the Set-SPDistributedCacheClientSetting commandlet.

Set-SPDistributedCacheClientSetting

If I run the following script:

$cacheTypes = @("DistributedDefaultCache", "DistributedAccessCache", "DistributedActivityFeedCache", "DistributedBouncerCache", "DistributedLogonTokenCache", "DistributedServerToAppServerAccessTokenCache", "DistributedSearchCache", "DistributedSecurityTrimmingCache", "DistributedActivityFeedLMTCache", "DistributedViewStateCache")

foreach($cacheType in $cacheTypes){
    Write-Host $cacheType
    Get-SPDistributedCacheClientSetting -ContainerType $cacheType
}

I will get results for each of the cache containers, but the thing that differs for each is the ChannelOpenTimeout and the RequestTimeout. Both of these settings are 3000 (milliseconds as I understand it) for all containers except for the DistributedLogonTokenCache and the DistributedViewStateCache - for both of these containers the ChannelOpenTimeout and RequestTimeout are set to 20.

My question is: Should we be setting thse container settings to 3000 the same as all the other containers?

The only article I can find that touches on this is:

https://www.habaneroconsulting.com/insights/SharePoint-2013-Distributed-Cache-Bug

This article appears to state that the value of 20 is way way too low and so you should increase the value for both containers to 3000.

Does anyone have details of what we are to set these values to? Can anyone from Microsoft comment on the article link?

Cheers,

Colin



We have upgraded our SharePoint 2010 environment to SharePoint 2013.  We are testing Pre-Production right now and are attempting to use OneDrive for Business.  The problem is when I try to sync a document library in OneDrive, it gives me the error"Sorry, we can't sync this library because it's hosted on a SharePoint 2010 server. For more information, please get in touch with your help desk."

Our 2013 environment looks a lot like 2010, but it's actually 2013; the content is set to compatibility mode.  Is there some setting in Central Admin or the library that we need to adjust to enable OneDrive to 'see' that we have a 2013 SharePoint farm? 

At what point can we switch over from using SP Workspace to OneDrive for Business for offline SharePoint document sync?  Is there a procedure we need to follow to do this following our 2013 upgrade?

Any information would help!  Thanks in advance.

Hello

I am confused about the best practice to set up web applications in a corporate environment.

We have got a Three Tier SharePoint 2013 platform setup. We are confused about the best practice of using HNSC, Host header web applications and where to host MySite Host.

Based on our requirements, We planned for

1. Web Application without Host Header on port 80. we are planning to use this web application to host HNSC. This is for one part of the group which wants to have their own site for each of its location.
2. Web Application with Host Header (http://websiteB.company.com) on port 80. I think because we have used Host Header in Web site level we can't host HNSC in this web application. This is other part of the company which wants to have only one site for all of its locations.
3. MySite host web application with Host Header(http://mysite.company.com) on port 80. 
4. As you can see all the web applications are on port 80 but different application pools

• Can any one see any problem with the above set up. 
• We are planning to make the sites external, do you think will i hit any problems with this set up.
• how about app development for this set up.
• Is there any problem having multiple and my site host web applications on port 80.
• Any other issues which i can't see now.

Thanks, please help me with this confusion

Thanks very much

sharedata

I cannot change the page title of the root deafualt.aspx page. It remains with a title of Home, no matter what I try to change it to in site settings, under title, description and logo.

Steps to recreate

1. If I create a brand new team site on SharePoint 2013 foundation (April 2013 CU).
2. If I log on and reference the site it brings me to sites/sitename/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/
3. If I change the url to the sites/sitename/default.aspx, I am presented with a page called "Home".
4. I then set this page titled "home" as my default homepage.
5. If I then choose site actions --> title, description and logo, and change the title to something, my custom title is ignored and the "Home" title remains.

How do I change the title of this "Home" default.aspx page?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Jonathan 

I am trying to accommodate a client’s requirements for a new SharePoint 2013 intranet I am building as they want  external https access through a different (domain) URL  . 

Internally,  users and servers reside on a local domain: client-domain.local

• intranet.client-domain.local
• mysites.client-domain.local
• projects.client-domain.local
• apps.client-domain.local

I am leaning towards a single web app and provisioning HNC as I think this will simplify the overall architecture.  Now my issue: If my client say has a hosted domain:  client-external-domain.co.uk on a Name Server of say an external web site host which could be on Linux or windows. They want to use client-external-domain.co.uk as the mechanism for secure access to the above SharePoint Intranet e.g.https://intranet.client-external-domain.co.uk. I am struggling to see how I can do this, unless I can add a cert to the IIS running on my farm that maps to client-external-domain.co.uk and have the appropriate Alternate Access Mapping set in SharePoint.  A hosted Name Server , would simply route all the relevant client-external-domain IP  traffic to the client's firewall and on to the farm

Any thoughts other than Reverse Proxies as apparently I am not getting one of those anytime soon ;-(

Daniel   

Blitz

Hi,

I am facing a bit of a challenge and I'm thinking it's because I have spent so much time trying to resolve this same issue over and over again in various ways. Here's the scenario...

3 tier sharepoint 2013 farm (WFE, APP and DB servers).

3 Web Apps deployed.

 - Extranet with FBA and Kerberos authentication currently setup as a Publishing Site

 - Intranet with Kerberos authentication. Setup currently configured with a BI collection and an Authoring Publishing collection

 - Internet with Anonymous enabled and Kerberos authentication. Haven't even touched this piece yet but it's coming.

I have a shared term store to allow for tagging of items on the Intranet so I can catalog and publish to specific search content related web parts on the Extranet (in theory). The search functionality is working within the web parts so that when i constrain the query to a specific tagged item it displays the text and a link but it will not display an image for the life of me. I am also having issues getting the content to embed rather than link to the Intranet. I do not want to expose the Intranet what-so-ever. 

Questions:

1. Did I go about this all wrong from the beginning by setting up separate web applications for each intended use? For example, one for Intranet, one for Extranet and one for Internet? In my initial thoughts, from a security perspective it just made sense but now that I am trying to make it all work I'm banging my head against a wall...

2. How can I get content to display on the Extranet by tagging items on the Intranet and restricting with specific search queries and NOT expose the Intranet? I am simply trying to create a list of business intelligence objects on several extranet sites that are available by audience (via tagged term set). I have even tried the SSRS and Excel Web Parts but it's not working as expected (if at all).

3. How do I get the items in number 2 to embed on the Extranet so that the Intranet is not exposed?

4. What questions do you have to better understand 

I think I have gone through every article and website there is about this process. It may be because of number 1 above that nothing else is working... ? IDK...

Can anyone offer any insight?

Thank you in advance. I've never posted before since I've always been able to figure things out on my own... This will be interesting.

Hi All,

I am in a Sharepoint 2013 project which has a central farm that goes out and crawls regional content farms. We want to have a HOSTS file that ensures that if we crawl a remote farm, we would not hit any WFEs. What would a sample host file look like?

Thanks

How do I remove the "See Also" section that lists other files.

Hi there, We have SP 2010 installed, we are planning to upgrade to 2013. Our database server is on the different subnet that the new SharePoint 2013 Fron-end and application server. Office Web App server is also on different subnet. We have single network domain through out the firm. The question - Is there any pre-requisite or special configuration needed to setup such SharePoint 2013 environment?

Regards,

Khushi

Khushi

I followed http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint_fr/archive/2010/11/24/configuration-de-sharepoint-2010-et-d-adfs-v2-de-bout-en-bout.aspx to setup adfs for my SharePoint 2013. There are few questions regarding this.

For LDAP to outgoing claims type mapping, if we use email address and display name as upn as described by the link http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10452.sharepoint-2010-how-to-install-and-configure-adfs-2-0-on-windows-server-2008-r2-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx what mapping commands are we going to use .

For role and email id , following is being used:

$map = New-SPClaimTypeMapping -IncomingClaimType "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress" -IncomingClaimTypeDisplayName "EmailAddress" -SameAsIncoming

$map2 = New-SPClaimTypeMapping -IncomingClaimType "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role" -IncomingClaimTypeDisplayName "Role" -SameAsIncoming

What would we use for UPN? 

Also is there a good link to create custom claims provider? I am admin and have not so great idea of coding?

sachin

Hello,

I just setup a new sharepoint 2013 environment made of 2 WFE and 1 app server with a separate SQL backend server. My domain where sharepoint is located is contoso.com. Contoso.com trusts fabrikam.com with one-way outgoing trust relationship. I ran both command 1 and 2 (see below) on every server in the farm but I still can't resolve any names in Fabrikam from sharepoint in Contoso. What am I doing wrong? Where else should I look?

Is it an actual requirement that WFE1 and APP1 be separate servers (virtual or physical), or is recommended best practice?

And more than that, I was going to make DC1, WFE1, and APP1 all reside on the same virtual server.  I'll take the spitballs, but again the question is:  does this violate a software/hardware system requirement as well as recommended best practice, or just the latter?

Thanks.