I am in the process of building a On-Premise SharePoint Foundation 2013 Farm, which will initially be used by approx 100 users (Same Business Unit), but could scale up to 1000 users (Rest of Business Units within same Company) over the next couple of years.

My architecture is as follows:

A single farm stretched across 2 data centers, comprising of:

2 x Front-End Web Servers (1 at Production Data Centre & 1 at DR Site) - Will be placed behind a hardware load balancer in an active passive config. These servers will also host Central admin site for the farm as well as the search index.

2 x SQL servers (1 at Production Data Centre & 1 at DR Site). Config, CentralAdminContent & Content DB's are mirrored to the DR site.

Now I am pretty happy with the above architecture for our requirements, but I am not sure how we should best structure the URL's into the Farm.

I understand that Microsoft now recommend to minimise the amount of Web Applications, with this in mind, I think it safe to say we proceed with 1 Web Application, which I have setup on port 80 as http://portal.company.int

Now this is where things start to get a bit murky for me. I am not sure about the creation of Site Collections and whther or not I should be using Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) considering the small size of our farm and the fact the all users work for the same company. Currently I have setup the following site collections (not HNSC):

http://portal.company.int/  - Root Site, configured to be read only. In previous farms I had errors if I didn't create a root site collection

http://portal.company.int/sites/IT  - Initial department of 100 users will be using this site collection

Both of the above site collection are configured to reside within the same content db, which has been pre-allocated a size of 200GB, with autogrow disabled.

Could the TechNet community advise me if I am along the right lines so far or if they have any recommendations on my approach. And one last thing is that I am not sure how/why/if I should be using managed paths either.

I am due to go on a SharePoint course in September, where hopefully this will click in my mind, but right now I feel that I have read quite a bit about Web Apps, Host Headers, Host Named Site Collections and Managed Paths and I am still not confident and would like a sanity check from the experts. :-)

Kevin Evans

Now when user clicks on Connect to outlook button on the Calendar Ribon Control, Outlook 2007 opens up a window and confirm the settings and the calendar appears on the outlook. Then when i go back to the mailboxes and revisit the calendar, it promts for a windows login screen. Then i provide my login, but it never authenticates.

Than i see the send and receive error on the outlook with following message.

Task'SharePoint reported Error (0x8007005): ' You don not have permission to view this sharepoint list"***". Contact the Sharepoint Site Administrator/ Http 401

But This all works on outlook 2010 version.

Confused, why isn't outlook 2007 cooperating here....

Hi All,

I am working on a project and need to create a form for data entry in SharePoint 2010. I need to collect data from multiple users via data entry form. Users are not familiar with SharePoint platform and hence need minimal options for navigation. Data entry should be done in form view and not in datasheet view. Following is the brief overview of how the procedure should be:

Home page to have buttons four buttons only:

(1)Open Data Entry Form

(2) Save the form

(3) Open to edit the same Data Entry Form

(4) Save and Submit after completion

Step: 1

1.      User to login using his login credential and land on home page.
2.      Open Data entry form by clicking button (1: Open form)
3.      User enters data for certain sections of the form
4.      Saves the form without completing it by clicking on button (2: Save)

Step: 2

1.  Click button(3: Edit) to open the same data form which was saved earlier with partial data filled. This action should open the same form rather than a new form.
2. Starts entering data to complete the form
3. Save the form after data entry / update by clicking on (2: Save)
4. Click on button (4: Save and Submit) to submit and send email confirmation to the administrator or assigned email id after completing the form.

Please let me know in case i need to provide any more clarity here.

Thanks in advance.

Zoref

Hello,

We are running Office 365, SharePoint 2013 environment. Currently, we have more than 100+ subsites under a "Table of Contents" webpart. I wanted to moved and categorize them under a Country Code folder in a Document Library (similar to a folder structure), keep everything exactly the same. The subsites uses a default template, which has Documents, Notebook, Tasks, Calendar etc (which opens to another link). Now, I have no problem just moving all the files in Documents to the Document Library, however, because Document Library is primarily use to store files, other function would not work. Since Notebook, Task consists of different pages/codings together. Now, I think I can still accomplish this without changing anything by somehow to be able to create a hyperlink to those sites, which I can arrange them under the Document Library. But I don't see that as an option. I know you create create hyperlink to documents, but that's not what I want. I want to be able to have a hyperlink that would direct to a site URL.

Does anyone has any suggestions or maybe another way of doing it?

Thanks very much!

Jerry

Hello Team

As we have SharePoint server 2013 on-premises and running out of space on the drive due to my database "WSS_UsageApplication" increased to 115 GB. I tried to shrink the database as well as used http://blogs.msdn.com/b/manhar/archive/2012/04/17/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-logging-database-or-how-to-purge-the-old-data-from-logging-database.aspx but still unable to reduce the space for "WSS_UsageApplication"

Page Request and Task Use for both i did the retention policy to 3 days instead of 14 days and run both jobs bit still database growing. Its increasing in gigantic. Please help

Thanks Ranveer Katiyar

user cannot create a sub site even if the user has full permission.(i tried even giving full permission at the roort site)

It gives an error "Sorry, you don't have access to this page ".  Only site collection administrators can create a new sub site.

The error occurs when i try to create a team site or project site but creating a new blog site doesnt have any problem.

I am using SharePoint 2013  with SP1

Can anybody help me in this

I have spent hours trying to get this working going through many links.  One of the best ones is this.

http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2010/12/connecting-to-cubes-and-external-data-with-excel-in-sharepoint/

However even after doing all of this it is still not working.  Here is my set up.  I have a sharepoint 2013.  I am trying to connect to my DW SSAS server that is on a different domain and not part of the farm.  Everything else seems to work but excel.  I have power view connecting and creating great reports with refesh working perfect.  I have performance point working.  I have Reporting Services working.  We installed adventureworks on the local SSAS farm version and excel is working with this and refreshed just fine.  I can ceate and excel report and save it to sharepoint but when I open it I get the famous error.

An error occurred during an attempt to establish a connection to the external data source. The following connections failed to refresh:

I can open in excel and then refresh all from excel and all works fine.  I do not want my users to have to go through this.  They should be able to use excel in sharepoint.  Any ideas on what I am missing.  I have tried to follow exactly what the link above says but still not working.

Ken Craig

hi,

- on premise SharePoint server 2013

- dedicated "my site" web application.

- the sites collection has the right quotas

- the server has a lot of space available.

OneFor Business client app have a strange behaviour:

- I synch small files < 1mb: works

- I synch one file of 300 mb, the client app (OneDrive for b) give me "the server is out of space"

- I remove my "300mb" file from my client and I synch one file of 50mb: works

- I synch other 10 files of 50mb and WORKS

- I retry to synch the file of 300mb and the client app give me "the server is out of space"

- I remove the file with the error and I try to synch a smaller file like 250 or 200 mb, same error.

- I try to synch other files of 50, 60, 70mb that added more than 300mb and WORKS!

what is the problem ?

We have a team site which had a task list (taskList1) that was working fine with mysites and aggregated tasks. A member of staff was editing the task list and ended up not being able to add any new items (they made a column, made it mandatory and then managed to hide the column from the form).

They subsequently deleted all the tasks in the original task list (tasklist1) and created a new task list (tasklist2) and populated it with all their additional columns and then their tasks. Any tasks in tasklist2 do not show up in mysites and aggregated tasks.

Assuming only one task list per site will aggregate, on a test site collection I have recreated the same scenario - then using export-spweb exported the second task list, deleted the original and secondary task list, then imported the second task list so that only one task list was within the site - still the tasks did not appear in the mysites and aggregated tasks.  

I can't find much information on boundaries or limitations for this functionality - can you only have one task list per team site that will aggregate?  Would you have any suggestions as to how I can get this second task list to work with the aggregated tasks and appear in users mysites tasks?

Hello,

I am having a strange issue with the User Profile Service. If I select Manage User Properties I get the error:

Your search encountered an error. If the problem persists, contact the portal site administrator.

After some troubleshooting I could not identify a fault so I decided to recreate the User Profile Service. I deleted everything including the databases and started again.

I have created a new User Profile Service and everything looked fine when I click on Manage User Properties the properties showed correctly.

When I then started the Sync service the error returned. If I stop the sync service the error goes away. I have looked at the ULS logs etc and I cannot see any errors that jump out at me. Any advice would be appreciated.

From my ULS Logs:

06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (UPSAServer:0x2E54) 0x1E78 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk4d Medium UserProfileProperty_WCFLogging::Begin ProfilePropertyServiceClient.ExecuteOnChannel 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (UPSAServer:0x2E54) 0x1E78 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk35 Medium MossClientBase_WCFLogging::Begin MossClientBase.ExecuteOnChannel 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (UPSAServer:0x2E54) 0x1E78 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk36 Medium MossClientBase_WCFLogging:: MossClientBase.ExecuteOnChannel -  Executing codeblock on channel 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (UPSAServer:0x2E54) 0x1E78 SharePoint Foundation Topology e5mc Medium WcfSendRequest: RemoteAddress: 'http://UPSAServer:32843/8d955b68656c4367a0c4dfd66da9fd7b/ProfilePropertyService.svc' Channel: 'Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.IProfilePropertyService' Action: 'http://Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles/GetProfileProperties' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:0e327548-96a5-4b1f-abdc-00804e9d993f' 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Foundation Monitoring nasq Medium Entering monitored scope (ExecuteWcfServerOperation). Parent No 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Foundation Topology e5mb Medium WcfReceiveRequest: LocalAddress: 'http://UPSAServer.forestroot.local:32843/8d955b68656c4367a0c4dfd66da9fd7b/ProfilePropertyService.svc' Channel: 'System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel' Action: 'http://Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles/GetProfileProperties' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:0e327548-96a5-4b1f-abdc-00804e9d993f' 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk4b Medium UserProfileProperty_WCFLogging :: Begin ProfilePropertyService.GetProfileProperties 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk4c Medium UserProfileProperty_WCFLogging :: ProfilePropertyService.GetProfileProperties - Call userProfileApplication.GetProperties 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk33 Medium UserProfileProperty_WCFLogging :: Begin UserProfileApplication.GetProperties 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk34 Medium UserProfileProperty_WCFLogging :: End UserProfileApplication.GetProperties 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Foundation Micro Trace uls4 Medium Micro Trace Tags: 0 nasq,0 e5mb,0 ajk4b,0 ajk4c,0 ajk33,2 ajk34 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 w3wp.exe (UPSAServer:0x141C) 0x21EC SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (ExecuteWcfServerOperation). Execution Time=2.6559 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (UPSAServer:0x2E54) 0x1E78 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk37 Medium MossClientBase_WCFLogging:: MossClientBase.ExecuteOnChannel -  Executed codeblock on channel 
06/26/2014 13:11:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (UPSAServer:0x2E54) 0x1E78 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ajk4e Medium UserProfileProperty_WCFLogging::End ProfilePropertyServiceClient.ExecuteOnChannel 

If I try and visit the URLS:

http://upsaserver:32843/8d955b68656c4367a0c4dfd66da9fd7b/ProfilePropertyService.svc

http://microsoft.office.server.userprofiles/GetProfileProperties

The first one loads as I would expect by the second gives me page not found

Hello everybody,

one of our user cannot see the RSS Feed on his Mysite even it is enabled in the site settings>RSS.

Does anyone have an idea? I would be happy if anyone can give me a hint.

We have a SharePoint 2013 site, and after we applied the update below, the conditional formatting for our primary dashboard no longer appears in Excel Services.  We have three different versions of the file and all have been affected.  I have tried removing all of the conditional formatting, and re-applying it, but it does not work.  

If the files are opened in Excel, they look perfect.   A blank, new file with the same conditional formatting rules work fine. 

Any thoughts on how to correct the issue??

SharePoint 2013 CU October.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/10/09/october-2013-cu-for-sharepoint-2010-has-been-released.aspx

Thanks, Barbara

Hi All,

We are planning to move to SharePoint 2013 farm from SP 2010. Now question is what will be the best way move to SP 2013 without downgrade time? Our plan is moving to new farm should not affect to end user accessibility to our SP 2010 farm. Basically looking for granular migration/database attach upgrade means that we want to migrate Department wise, lets say first we want, our Human Resource Department will be able to access SP 2013, so at this moment we will migrate all the content database only for HR department but other department they still will use SP 2010 until we moved to new SP 2013 farm. so according to my scenario, should i use any 3rd party migration tools or just Database attache upgrade? Please looking for your valuable suggestions.

Thanks in advanced !

I have an on premise SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 environment. Both use the same SQL 2008 R2 with SP1 service and I am looking to migrate to SQL 2012. I have the new SQL server installed and ready to go at the SQL 2012 with SP1 and didn't know if I should apply SP2? Can someone verify for me if SP2 is compatible with SharePoint 2010/2013.

Thank you

Paul

I setup a public facing site in sharepoint online, I haven't touched the blog, and for some reason when I try and goto the link it gives me :

Sorry, something went wrong 
An unexpected error has occurred. Technical Details Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. 

Correlation ID: 581b9f9c-80ec-1000-6709-07f5060692bb 

Date and Time: 6/27/2014 3:53:37 PM

I have no way of debugging it? Where can I contact Microsoft to try to see what that correlation id means?

Hello,

We recently upgraded from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 WSS on a hosted service.  Now, all the Windows 8 clients can no longer map a document library as a network drive, or use "Open in Explorer" functionality. It used to work before on SP2010 but now it does not function whatsoever. Windows 7 clients are unaffected.

The error messages range from "Mutual Authentication failed. Server's password is out of date at the domain controller", "...Add to Trusted Sites" and "...Device attached to system is not functioning"

I submitted a trouble ticket with the provider, and they were not able to fix the problem.  I have duplicated the problem on our internal SharePoint 2013 server and confirmed the problem also.  Both myself and our host have tried on at least a dozen Windows 8 clients (both inside and outside the corporate network) and absolutely none of them work. 

There are two methods that I have tried where mapping network drives does work immediately:

1) By turning off the SSL and using port 80 instead of 443.

2) Keeping Fiddler2 Web Debugger open

But these two options are not feasible to use in a production environment.

Can anybody confirm that they are able to map a network drive when using Sharepoint 2013 (w. SSL) server and Windows 8  client? I feel this is a major software bug in the combination of products being used.

Thanks in advance,

Don Rowe.

Greetings.  I have a list that has a People Picker column.  When I add a new list item and start typing in a network ID into the People Picker control, the following message is displayed underneath the control: "Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server".  I fired up Fiddler and I can see the following requests being made:

1. POST /sites/hr/_api/contextinfo HTTP/1.1. 
    This has a 401 Unauthorized result
2. POST /sites/hr/_vti_bin/client.svc/ProcessQuery
    This has a 404 Not Found result

So, it looks like authentication is failing on the SharePoint services (this probably explains why Search doesn't work either ;) ).  I have the following authentication set in IIS on the site:
Anonymous -> Enabled
ASP.NET Impersonation -> Enabled
Basic Authentication -> Disabled
Digest Authentication -> Disabled
Forms Authentication -> Enabled
Windows Authentication -> Enabled

Also of note, this is a single-server VM environment containing SP 2013, SQL Server 2012, and is a DC.  Thanks for any input!