In our organization, we recently migrated a SharePoint 2010 content dbs to SharePoint 2013. After migration, we created many sites in the SP 2010 compatibility mode. Any documents uploaded in these new sites, have their metadata duplicated. 

For example, if the document has columns "A","B". Then in view form and edit form, they are shown twice. I checked the custom content type that is being used by the document, the content type has the columns duplicated.

Need help as to why the columns are getting duplicated in the content type.

Note: the Content type is a custom content type deployed using a solution. The content type is working fine in other SP 2013 environment.

Regards,

Neeraj.

Hi SharePoint masters,

Is there a way to script installation of SharePoint 2013 Foundation? I know I can script pre-requisite installation, but is there a way to install SharePoint 2013 foundation without GUI installer and asking for user input?

It is possible for most of Microsoft Products (also 'full' SharePoint 2013), but I haven't found any way for Foundation.

If you found my post helpful, please give it a Helpful vote. If it answered your question, remember to mark it as an Answer.

Hi all

In asset picker, for example when inserting new link, clicking on "next page" does not show next items but it stays on page 1.

This seems to be a general issue in asset pickers in our site collection running in 2010 compatibility mode. Paging functionality works though when going directly to corresponding document library - this only happens in asset picker.

In ULS logs you can find following information, which must be linked to our problem:

• SharePoint Foundation   Upgrade     Unexpected CannotMakeBrowserCacheSafeLayoutsUrl: 14/1033/styles/Themable/portal.css
• Web Content Management  Publishing  Unexpected AssetPickerDialog.LinksMenu_GoTo - Url to go to '/services/5thfloor/informatics/Documents' is invalid: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined.

These 2 log entries are always occuring together (at the same timestamp).

Asset picker seems to have a mess with URLs as correct URL would be 15/1033/styles/Themable/portal.css instead of14/1033/styles/Themable/portal.css.

Is there any solution to this problem? I did not find any information about this exact problem, so I am not sure if this is an issue depending on our specific environment only. We don't want to upgrade our Intranet to native SharePoint 2013, at least for the next time.

Thanks,

Roger

How to create a copy of document that is uploaded in CRM to sharepoint?

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

Hi All,

After installing sp1 on sharepoint server 2013. I can't access /_layouts/15/EditProfile.aspx.

I am getting error as below

Unexpected ProfileUI: Unhandled exception inside LoadControl: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadProfileTable()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadControl(Object sender, EventArgs e) 34bb9c9c-6432-c0d5-8d92-05a9fcf6d6d5
06/20/2014 14:45:32.85  w3wp.exe (0x0D4C)                        0x19C4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        narq Verbose  Releasing SPRequest with allocation Id {4C50506B-78D2-4F93-B899-1D054B027172} 34bb9c9c-6432-c0d5-8d92-05a9fcf6d6d5
06/20/2014 14:45:32.85  w3wp.exe (0x0D4C)                        0x19C4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        8nca Medium   Application error when access /_layouts/15/EditProfile.aspx, Error=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadProfileTable()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadControl(Object sender, EventArgs e)     at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) 34bb9c9c-6432-c0d5-8d92-05a9fcf6d6d5
06/20/2014 14:45:32.85  w3wp.exe (0x0D4C)                        0x19C4 SharePoint Foundation         Runtime                        tkau Unexpected System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadProfileTable()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadControl(Object sender, EventArgs e)     at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) 34bb9c9c-6432-c0d5-8d92-05a9fcf6d6d5
06/20/2014 14:45:32.85  w3wp.exe (0x0D4C)                        0x19C4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        ajlz0 High     Getting Error Message for Exception System.Web.HttpUnhandledException (0x80004005): Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadProfileTable()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileUI.LoadControl(Object sender, EventArgs e)     at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at Sys... 34bb9c9c-6432-c0d5-8d92-05a9fcf6d6d5
06/20/2014 14:45:32.85* w3wp.exe (0x0D4C)                        0x19C4 SharePoint Foundation         General                        ajlz0 High     ...tem.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)     at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()     at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) 34bb9c9c-6432-c0d5-8d92-05a9fcf6d6d5

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

when i select configure diagnostic logging in central admin i get the following error

error file not found

in uls logs i see the following

07/01/2014 13:25:12.93 w3wp.exe (0x1998) 0x0844 SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Name=Request (GET:http://vsrsp10qaapp:9999/_admin/metrics.aspx) 6c6d233a-fb35-491e-87c2-ba4ab41afeb1
07/01/2014 13:25:12.93 w3wp.exe (0x1998) 0x0844 SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Site=/ 6c6d233a-fb35-491e-87c2-ba4ab41afeb1
07/01/2014 13:25:12.95 w3wp.exe (0x1998) 0x0844 SharePoint Foundation Runtime tkau Unexpected System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.    at Microsoft.Opex.Rkm.Common.Logging.DiagnosticsService.ProvideAreas()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDiagnosticsServiceBase.EnsureAreas()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDiagnosticsServiceBase.get_Areas()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.MetricsPage.OnLoad(EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) 6c6d233a-fb35-491e-87c2-ba4ab41afeb1
07/01/2014 13:25:12.96 w3wp.exe (0x1998) 0x0844 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://vsrsp10qaapp:9999/_admin/metrics.aspx)). Execution Time=29.7579720327584 6c6d233a-fb35-491e-87c2-ba4ab41afeb1
07/01/2014 13:25:14.94 w3wp.exe (0x1998) 0x0814 SharePoint Foundation Topology e5mc Medium WcfSendRequest: RemoteAddress: 'http://vsrsp10qaapp:32843/9283a893bbd8454982688fd214f2cf85/MetadataWebService.svc' Channel: 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.IMetadataWebServiceApplication' Action: 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/taxonomy/soap/IDataAccessReadOnly/GetChanges' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:6657c8c4-fd07-4545-984a-5d9121ad29f5' 
07/01/2014 13:25:14.94 w3wp.exe (0x0C18) 0x1450 SharePoint Foundation Topology e5mb Medium WcfReceiveRequest: LocalAddress: 'http://vsrsp10qaapp.southerntrust.local:32843/9283a893bbd8454982688fd214f2cf85/MetadataWebService.svc' Channel: 'System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel' Action: 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/taxonomy/soap/IDataAccessReadOnly/GetChanges' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:6657c8c4-fd07-4545-984a-5d9121ad29f5' b1d3864d-60a0-4625-bb4c-7644b54846b4
07/01/2014 13:25:14.94 w3wp.exe (0x0C18) 0x1450 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring nasq Medium Entering monitored scope (ExecuteWcfServerOperation) b1d3864d-60a0-4625-bb4c-7644b54846b4

i have carried out an iisreset and restart of the server problem still exists.

health analyser is report an error

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could clear this up for me.

The current MS recommendation is for us all to use HNSC as "this is the way it is done in Office 365".

Yet, all the documentation I have found indicates that HNSC are not available for SharePoint Online (part of Office 365). See the following:

===================================================

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5e1ee081-cab8-4c1b-9783-21c38ddcb8b0#bkmk_Featurecomparison
Modified: 2014-06-20
Tables shows HNSC not available in any Office 365 packages

===================================================

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint-online-content-service-description.aspx
Modified: 2014-06-20
Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 can create host-named site collections with the host header.

Host-named site collections in SharePoint provide URL management and scalability of sites within a single web application. This

feature is not available to SharePoint Online customers.

====================================================

My company has just started using SharePoint Online Plan 2 and can confirm it is not possible to use HNSC.

So... why are MS recommending HNSC when you cannot actually implement them in SharePoint Online???

Am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance!

Hi and thank you for your time. I am was given the task of managing our sharepoint server. The server was not setup by myself but I was part of the install process. i am trying to correct a couple of issues in the "Review Problems and solutions" section of the Central Administration" page.

Security

Issue 1. The server farm account should not be used for other services.  SPTimerService (SPTimerV4)

Issue 2. Accounts used by application pools or service identities are in the local machine Administrators group. SPTimerService (SPTimerV4)

Issue 1, I know I can change service accounts on the farm credential management page, but the SPTimerService is not listed. where is this located and how can I change it.

Issue 2, When I move the user account out of the local admin group people picker breaks for all sites except for the Central administration site. An example would be on the CA site I click share and enter a name and it resolves to a AD user. and I can then share the page. but on a site I click share and type the name I get the following message "Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server." I have run iisreset /noforce and it still people picker doesnot work.

Thank you again for your time.

Paul

We've recently upgraded from SP2010 / Office 2010 to SP 2013/Office 2013. In 2010 versions we were able to push out specific SharePoint "Save & Send" locations via Group Policy registry preferences. Unfortunately similar settings dont appear to work with the 2013 counterparts.

I've added a SharePoint location manually by saving out to it and dug through the registry in hopes of finding a similar setting, but I cannot figure out where this is set.

Does anyone know how to centrally manage SharePoint save as locations or even where these settings are stored on a workstation?

Thanks!

I have 2 WAC servers behind a load balancer with SSL offloaded to the LB. Both servers report healthy with Get-OfficeWebAppsMachine

Works fine with SharePoint 2013.

When I use it with a remote file, served using HTTP with no authentication (anonymous), I get a generic "Sorry there was a problem and we can't open this document..." error.

In the ULS and event viewer, I see the WOPI error and 501 which basically says:

Could not contact WOPI End Point. Error details - 'NotImplemented url - https://sample-owa-url.com/oh/wopi/files/@/wFileId?wFileId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Blah%2Ecom%2FWordDocument%2Edocx&access_token=1&access_token_ttl=0'.

I also sometimes see this:

<HealthMessage>WordViewerWfeWatchdog reported status for WebWordViewer in category 'WfeRedirect'. Reported status: /default.aspx returned a 404, which means that we didn't have where to redirect.</HealthMessage> 

The very interesting part s that I have a dev server, with OWA (WAC) installed, thats not going through a LB and does not use SSL, that works just fine with the same public url word document.

Hi All

We are midway through testing of a migration from SharePoint 2010, to SharePoint 2013.

We have no functional issues, but there are 2 'non-errors' listed when we run Test-SPContentDatabase against each of the upgraded Content Databases - and the question for both is - are these safe to ignore?

ISSUE 1)

The background is that in 2010 they were using Classic auth and we don't have the option to change that to CBA pre-migration. So, in following TechNet guides, we created scripts to create the 2013 Web Application using Classic Auth, Dismount the temp DB created as part of the Web App creation, then mount the migrated 2010 Content DB, allowing it to do the upgrade to 2013 format - thereafter we run the CBA conversion, and then MigrateUsers, then Visual Upgrade; as per the following:

New-SPWebApplication -Name $webAppName -Port 80 -HostHeader $hostHeader -URL $webAppUrl -ApplicationPool $appPoolName -AuthenticationMethod "NTLM" -DatabaseName $TEMPcontentDB -Path $virtDirectoryPath

#Mount DB
Dismount-SPContentDatabase $TEMPcontentDB  -confirm:$false
Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name $contentDB  -DatabaseServer $databaseServer -WebApplication $webAppUrl  -confirm:$false
$db = Get-SPContentDatabase $contentDB
$db.RefreshSitesInConfigurationDatabase()

Convert-SPWebApplication -Identity $webAppUrl -To Claims -RetainPermissions  -force

$wa = Get-SPWebApplication -identity $webAppUrl
$wa.MigrateUsers($true)

#Visual Upgrade
Upgrade-SPSite $webAppUrl –VersionUpgrade

Now, all seems fine, but we have the following on every migrated Site Collection; regardless of what we do - can this be ignored, or does anyone have any ideas?

Category        : Configuration
Error           : False
UpgradeBlocking : False
Message         : The [SharePoint - DC SOURCE 2013 TEST MIGRATE] web application is configured with claims authentication mode however the content database you are trying to attach is intended to be used against a windows classic authentication mode.
Remedy          : There is an inconsistency between the authentication mode of target web application and the source web application. Ensure that the authentication mode setting in upgraded web application is the same as what you had in previous SharePoint
                  2010 web application. Refer to the link "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=236865" for more information.
Locations       :

ISSUE 2)

This one is much simpler.

Post-migration, again for every Site Collection migrated, I am getting:

Category        : SiteOrphan
Error           : True
UpgradeBlocking : False
Message         : Database [SP13_DEV1_ClientRel_Content_01] contains a site (Id = [4278a1f0-e14d-4af4-b663-a099ec375dad], Url = [/]) whose id is already associated with a different database (Id = [a3e39217-27bb-4fda-b2c8-4f056b53a814], name =
                  [SP13_DEV1_ClientRel_Content_01]) in the site map. Consider deleting one of these sites which have conflicting ids.
Remedy          : The orphaned sites could cause upgrade failures. Try detach and reattach the database which contains the orphaned sites. Restart upgrade if necessary.
Locations       :

I checked and it is referring to the Root of each Site Collection; BUT the sitemap=true. I tried dismount, remount and then:

$db = Get-SPContentDatabase $contentDB
$db.RefreshSitesInConfigurationDatabase()

Yet the 'non-error' persists.

Is this something that can be ignored? As I understood, if you see sitemap=false it means the site must be deleted; but if sitemap=true; can it be ignored?

I am trying to change the mapping for the Work email property in the User Profile but when I edit the property on the "Edit User Profile Property" page, the Property Mapping for Synchronization's "Remove" button is grayed out as well as Add New mappings "Add" button. I am logged on with the Farm account which has admin rights to  the UP.

ITGirl

I will be configuring multiple sharepoint farms for a customer with SP2013. Is it possible to install only one office web apps server farm and use this one OWA farm for all my sharepoint farms?

In other words, can I install run new-wopibinding on each of my SP farms and point to the single OWA farm?

In the sharepoint farm, one of our web application is changing authentication for existing users. Users were using Windows authentication but now same user would be using forms based authentication to log in to the site. 

Scenario:

User John logs in to Sharepoint site sharepoint.com using Windows authentication with domain A

Now FBA is configure for domain A and john has to start using sharepoint using FBA.

With my testing i have found that John even though present there through windows authentication will not be able to log in with FBA. And i guess that is due to identity provider. 

My question is , is there any way to effectively manage permission without having users deleted and added again using manual process. Is there a powershell script or any method to switch existing users authenitaction from windows to FBA. 

sachin

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

SharePoint 2013 farm
if a user has a picture then I cannot delete the user, but if there is no picture then I can delete.
This does not work when I manually delete. When SharePoint automatically deletes, that works. For example if user is marked disabled.

What can I do?

We are upgrading our SP 2010 environment to a new fully virtualized SP 2013 environment using VMWare.  The new VMs are Windows Server 2012 R2 and we are using Sharepoint Server 2013 SP1.  Database is on Windows Server 2012 using SQL Server 2012.

We have one moderate content database at 18GB and a large content database at 138GB.  Both content databases have a few reported missing features but no upgrade blocking errors.  The large content database has many site collections (600+) since personal sites were stored in it previously before we separated out to a different personal site domain.

Using the Mount-SPContentDatabase command, the 18GB database is upgraded and mounted in 10 minutes.  However, the 138GB database is taking a ridiculous amount of time to finish.  The upgrade percentage goes up rapidly until it stops at various places, 4.67%, 27.8%, etc.  It will stop at these places for hours.  Letting the upgrade run to completion, it took 4 days 15 hours to complete.

I've tried also using the -NoB2BSiteUpgrade flag when mounting but there does not appear to be any difference in speed.

We've rebuilt this environment using clean installs, and we have no other service applications running that may be interfering like search or user profile sync.  The odd thing is I was able to upgrade this content database six months ago using Windows Server 2012 (non-R2) and Sharepoint Server 2013 without SP1, and it didn't take such a significant amount of time that it was even noticeable.  Other than software, the hardware and virtual environments were exactly the same.

Reviewing volume sizes on the DB, there is plenty of room available (300GB), and CPU/RAM does not appear to be maxed in any way during the upgrade.  The only bottle-neck I believe we may have is a relatively slow SAN, but I do not have the specifics on this hardware.

I've seen other questions similar to this asked but no specific solution presented.  My question is, what do I do now?  I'm one step before involving Microsoft professional services, and I want to make sure I've exhausted all of my options.

Thanks for your insight!

I have installed Sharepoint 2013 and Office Web Apps in a test environment as detailed by Microsoft documentation.

Sharepoint is set up and working correctly and the Office Web App server seems to be running fine.

As I am in a test environment I have no need to use HTTPS so I have changed the SPWOPI zone to internal-http, I have also changed .AllowOAuthOverHttp to true.

All bindings are in place and seeing as I have added a domain using New-OfficeWebAppsHost I have been logging on using a domain client, despite all of this each time you attempt to open a document I receive an error message (oddly enough each web app had a different error message).

I amcompletely puzzled now, and any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Daryl 

I have a site collection ( SharePoint 2013)  with many subsites ( several hundred). If I do not set a custom results page and then navigate to a sub site , and then select search this site results are returned for the subsite only using the default osssearchreults.aspx page. This is similar functionality from SharePoint 2010 ( I had Fast Search). But, if I point search to a custom results page and set the filter to {searchboxquery} Path:{Site.URL} attempting to replicate search this site only. I do not get any results.  When I look at Fiddler it looks like site.Url gets replaced with the url from my search center instead of the subsite where I entered the query in the search box. From what I understand of the URL token it should be the url of the current website. How do I set this up so I can search a subsite only ( not the entire site collection) while using a custom results page.