Hi all,

I've been looking into moving our SharePoint on prem to the could as part of O365 but so far I have not been convinced it's the best way forward for us, simply because of the all restrictions MS put, and the limited access given to SP Admins.

I have come across using O365 but SharePoint hosted elsewhere, is that a cheaper option than keeping SharePoint on prem?

What are the pros and cons of this approach, we are small to medium sized organisation so of course costs will be a big determining factor.

The consultants involved with O365 claimed after the next release of SP MS would not release any further on prem SP, but after some digging I have found that is incorrect and that MS will continue with on prem for as long as there is a demand for it.

The SP admin centre of course gives very limited access to SP admins, and nowhere near compares to Central Admin, but it's also the inability to run most PowerShell commands, making it time further time consuming.

Thanks

Hello everyone,

I am currently working with a non for profit organisation over in Sydney and I am having difficulty in helping them update their version of SharePoint.

They currently have SharePoint Foundation 2013 and have recently purchased SharePoint Server 2013. I have searched online (Googled), I have searched on this TechNet forum, searched through Microsoft's website and basically everywhere trying to find out how to upgrade.

The issue is that there are plenty of resources on how to upgrade 2007/2010 to 2013, however I can't find a single resource on how to upgrade 2013 Foundation to 2013 Server. The charity themselves don't have any documentation and I cant see to find anything that will give me a step-by-step process for helping them update their version.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, as they do not have a support plan for Microsoft or from any vendors and the only option I was told was to launch a support ticket and choosing either a Microsoft / TechNet support plan, Contract, Credit Card or Support Plan (and I would like to save them the $295 that they charge for submitting a ticket outside of a support plan.

I have never had to update anything on a commercial level and I simply assumed when an organisation was purchasing thousands of dollars worth of software that a basic upgrade documentation would be part of the price.
I managed to find a 600+ page document outlining essentially everything about SharePoint; however I couldn't find any section that details the process of installing Server when Foundation already exists (Do I just simply install over the top?) 

I hope to hear back from someone if they can offer any advice.

Kind Regards,

Simon

Hi All,

I am a site collection administrator when i creating new sub folder under the folder in document library, am getting below error

"Page not found  The page you're looking for doesn't exist."

Srinivas

Hello Community

    It seems best practices doesn't  recommend the Sharepoint 2010 Server single server farm
setup when using Sharepoint 2013 Server.

    What setup should be used in place of Sharepoint 2010 Server single server farm
when creating a Sharepoint 2013 Server farm?

    Thank you
    Shabeaut

hi,

 i am having an issue in my "save site as a template". i have created  a subsite few weeks back with doc libs and  splists, disc.forum and  based on the template subsite I have created new subsites. now  as  per my new requirement i need to add new  doclibs and few columns in these doc lib. But I am unable to find which sub site was taken as a template.since i have many  subsites with different names, I forgott to make meaningful names, i gave some datetime for the templatesubsites,

like project_27_jul_2pm,project_20_jul_7pm, etc etc.

So would like to know, is it possible to find out from which subsite I have taken/prepared  the template subsite.

any APIs are available or any power shell scripts. such that i can find  out from which subsite i have created this  sub site template.

Hi All -

This issue is driving me nuts, I'm getting mixed content warnings only when accessing certain tools in the site settings menus, otherwise everything else is working - here's the scenario :

- SharePoint 2013 3-tier farm behind an NLB providing SSL termination. Client requests via HTTPS, SSL is decrypted and forwarded by the NLB to IIS as HTTP. Original header intact.

- IIS website is configured as HTTP, catch-all with no host-header, listens on :80

- Web application contains host named site collections. Created via Powershell as follows :

$webApp = New-SPWebApplication -Name $webAppName -ApplicationPool $webAppPool -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $iisAccount) -AuthenticationProvider (New-SPAuthenticationProvider –UseWindowsIntegratedAuthentication) -Path $path -URL $rootUrl -HostHeader $hostHeader -DatabaseName $dbName

- A root site collection as created (path-based of course) as follows :

$spSite = New-SPSite -Url $url -OwnerAlias $owner1 -SecondaryOwnerAlias $owner2 -ContentDatabase $dbName -Name $name -Template $template -Language $lcid

- Host names site collections are then created similarly, except using the -HostHeaderWebApplication parameter. HNSCs seem to be working just fine, they're accessible through the NLB and appear to work just fine...

...except certain tools in the site settings menu, where I get a mixed content warning - for example :

- Content & Structure gives me a mixed content warning. The browser console tells me it's trying to open 

http://<host>/_layouts/15/1033/styles/corev15.css

and

http://<host>/_layouts/15/1033/styles/SiteManagerCustomStyles.css

I get similiar errors for some ribbon controls, for example the Site Collection Administrators tool which wants to open this via HTTP:

http://<host>/_layouts/15/mngsiteadmin.aspx?IsDlg=1

Many other tools in Site Settings work just fine.

Now, I've tried the following :

- I tried doing everything the opposite way around. Created the web application with SSL enabled. Created the root site as HTTPS, created the HNSCs as HTTPS. Added a secondary URL to the HNSCs via PowerShell as HTTP (Intranet Zone). Configured IIS to listen to :80. This actually works, but has exactly the same errors with Content & Structure etc. In other words no change.

I'm not sure what else I can try.

Has anyone got any experience with this issue?

when users click on the my sites they are seeing the error below.please guide which went wrong.

sorry something went wrong,could not load user profiles

Hi All,

I need to add a new account as farm account and remove previous farm account. Will this be possible?

Thanks,

sudesh withanage

I am getting strange Access Denied error on subsites with broken inheritance. Users who have permission on parent site collection and these subsites have no issue but when I add any AD group or users to these subsites that are not in parent site collection, these users are getting Access denied. Publishing feature is not active.

Wondering how I can diagnose this issue. Is there logs that I can trace for Access Denied, How?

Hello,

I have an web application in Sharepoint 2013 which only works correctly with the Everyone (Read Only) user added to User Privileges in Central Admin. 

If I remove Everyone user from user privileges, user domains, that are added to access groups in Site Permissions, are directed to Request Access page of the site. I cannot understand how is this happening, specially because I have other Web App on the same server which are working correctly.

Could you please advice me how could I trace the problem and resolve it.

Thank you!

Hello,

I have recreated the mysites application on sharepoint 2013 reusing the old personal database for the application site collection.

When the application was first set up it was tested by some users to make sure that profiles could be edited and that photos could be added. This all worked fine.

After a couple days I received a note from a user that they could not update their profile photo. I tried editing my own profile. I can edit personal information in the text fields fine. The same as the other user, I can now no longer change my profile photo. I could remove the old photo but I cannot upload a new one.

I get the following error:

I decided to test the other mysites features to see if anything else had problems.

I created a BLOG post using my personal profile. The text for the BLOG post was accepted fine.

I then decided to edit the BLOG post to add a picture to the post.

Attempting upload of an image, to add to the blog post, from my computer produced this error:

When I 'comment' on my own blog post, the old user profile photo appears associated with my comment even though there is no profile photo now associated with my personal site profile.

Something appears to be missing from the mysites application.

QUESTION: What does MySites require to allow uploading of personal photos in these contexts?

Thanks for any illumination.

Ps. I have found that deleting and recreating the personal site does not clear old data from the mysites database. I get the initial 'Were Almost Ready!' page, but when I edit my profile I still get all the old data showing.

X

Hello All,

Environment:  SharePoint 2013 Enterprise with SP1

Farm consists of

 2 App Server, 2 Web Server and 2 SQL Servers all the server have Windows 2012 R2 OS .  The SQL backend is SQL Server 2014

Installed Workflow manager on the Web server, the configuration ran fine without any errors. Trying to browse the workflow management site via IIS Manager encountered Certificate Error clicked Continue to this website which gives a HTTP 403 Forbidden and following detail message

This error (HTTP 403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission to view the webpage.

Checked the web site Workflow Management Site in the IIS manager which has only one folder bin . I was not able to submit the Screenshot

I have installed the latest patch for the Workflow manager and the Service Bus

Question I have

1. Should there be more folder under the Workflow Management Site.
2. Why is the Web site not showing the web page
3. Is workflow manager supported for Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL 2014

Thanks

Dhanraj

I have a SharePoint 2013 farm connected to Office Web Apps, with a number of sharepoint web applications(mostly legacy sites, created before my time here). I have created three new web apps and, when I try to preview documents using OWA (or, in fact, open them or edit them in browser) I get an assortment of errors, from "Sorry, we couldn't open this presentation due to a problem" (PPTX) to "Sorry, there was a problem opening this document" (DOCX).

I can use OWA in the existing web applications - what have I not done properly with the new ones?!

I have configured  an app domain and i can add apps from app store to my SharePoint 2013 site,issue is that app is not loading on my site and showing blank space instead  .I tried to open app url but its showing blank without prompting any error in IE ,what can be the issue?

Update:In firefox its showing an error  "no element found"  for the app url.How do I verify if the app is added correctly?

Hi,

I have created a SP 2013 SP1 farm and I would like to add a 2nd server to this farm.

We used a listener to connect the 1st server of the farm to SQL. How does it work to connect the second server to the farm? Do I need to create a second listener or can I use the same that I used for the same server?

Many thanks,

Fred

Hi all,

I have Primary and secondary server two servers.

1) Primary server (01) installed with SharePoint 2010 with SQL Server 2008R2 installed

2) Secondary server (02) installed with only SQL Server 2008R2 installed.

Primary servers SharePoint DB's are configured underSQL log shipping on secondary server SQL Server (now the DB’s are ready only mode). Now i would like to install the SharePoint 2010 app on secondary server and integrate to the SQL Server contains DB's in read only mode.

My question is whenever if we install the SharePoint app on server we get the same database names i.e SharePoint_AdminContent_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What is that xxxxxxxxx…? How do the SharePoint get that sequence? Is it different for different machine and why it is so? How can I get the same names as they were in primary?

Ex: my primary has the SharePoint_AdminContent_8fc9016d-0d6b-43fb-a280-b3c221b286b8

Do I get the same SharePoint_AdminContent_8fc9016d-0d6b-43fb-a280-b3c221b286b8 on secondary server ?

How do I get it.

Note: Im SQL Server Dba so pelase help me in understanding in simple way.

Hello,

In a list, the newitem.aspx doesn't get updated when new fields are added or fields are changing name. The first time, I just create a new mynewitem.aspx and all the fields were showingl. After adding a new field, the mynewitem.aspx is oudated - i.e. not showing the new field. I can keep adding mynewitem(1)(2).aspx but this is not  a solution.

Using the SPD, I see that the editform has a:ListFormWebPart, while the new form (both of them) have a DataFormWebPart.

A bit of more information: The site is both http and https, I've added script web parts and in web part that shows the fileds I've changed the zone index.

I don't have the same problem with editform.aspx

Christos

Greetings - I'm looking for feedback/comments on a script to create a new managed path site collection with it's own content db in SharePoint 2013 SP1. The idea is to create a new site collection under our main "portal" web application. Each new site collection would have it's own content db (each client would have their own db). I am newish to PowerShell for SharePoint and am curious if the script contains any glaring flaws. I would also like comments as to the use of separate content dbs (pros / cons). Also if there are any better ways to accomplish the goal. Thanks!

$SiteName = Read-Host "Enter site collection name"
$WebsiteDesc = Read-Host "Enter site collection description"

$SiteCollectionTemplate = "STS#0"
$SiteCollectionLanguage = 1033
$WebApplicationURL = "https://portal.company.com"
$SiteRelativeURL = ("/" + $SiteName)
$SiteFullURL = ($WebApplicationURL + $SiteRelativeURL)

$SiteOwner1 = "DOMAIN\user1"
$SiteOwner1Email = "user1@company.com"
$SiteOwner1Display = "John Doe"

$SiteOwner2 = "DOMAIN\user2"
$SiteOwner2Email = "user2@company.com"
$SiteOwner2Display = "Jane Doe"

$DatabaseInstance = "SQLDatatbase"
$ContentDatabasePrefix = "WSS_Content"
$ContentDatabaseName = ($ContentDatabasePrefix + "_" + $SiteName)

$OwnersGroup = ($SiteName +" Owners")
$MembersGroup = ($SiteName +" Members")

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Create New Manged Path" -ForegroundColor Yellow

New-SPManagedPath -RelativeURL $SiteRelativeURL -WebApplication $WebApplicationURL -Explicit

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "New Managed Path " $SiteRelativeURL " has been created" -ForegroundColor Yellow

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Create New Content Database " -ForegroundColor Yellow

New-SPContentDatabase -Name $ContentDatabaseName -DatabaseServer $DatabaseInstance -WebApplication $WebApplicationURL

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "New Content Database created " $ContentDatabaseName -ForegroundColor Yellow

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Create New Site Collection " -ForegroundColor Yellow

New-SPSite -Name $SiteName –Description $WebsiteDesc -ContentDatabase $ContentDatabaseName -URL $SiteFullURL -Template $SiteCollectionTemplate -OwnerAlias $SiteOwner1 –OwnerEmail $SiteOwner1Email -SecondaryOwnerAlias $SiteOwner2 -SecondaryEmail $SiteOwner2Email

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "New Site Collection created " $SiteFullURL -ForegroundColor Yellow

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Set Database MaxSite and Warning" -ForegroundColor Yellow

Get-SPContentDatabase -Site $SiteFullURL | Set-SPContentDatabase -MaxSiteCount 1 -WarningSiteCount 0

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Create Defualt Groups - Assign Primary and Secondary Site Owners" -ForegroundColor Yellow

$web = Get-SPWeb $SiteFullURL
$web.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups($SiteOwner1,$SiteOwner2,"")
$PrimaryAdmin = Get-SPUser $SiteOwner1 -Web $SiteFullURL
$PrimaryAdmin.Name = $SiteOwner1Display
$PrimaryAdmin.Update()
$SecondaryAdmin = Get-SPUser $SiteOwner2 -Web $SiteFullURL
$SecondaryAdmin.Name = $SiteOwner2Display
$SecondaryAdmin.Update()

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Add Default Users Groups" -ForegroundColor Yellow

New-SPUser -UserAlias "DOMAIN\DomainAdmins" -displayname "Domain Admins" -web $SiteFullURL -Group $OwnersGroup
New-SPUser -UserAlias "DOMAIN\powerUser1" -displayname "Power User1" -Email "puser1@company.com" -web $SiteFullURL -Group $MembersGroup
New-SPUser -UserAlias "DOMAIN\powerUser2" -displayname "Power User2" -Email "puser2@company.com" -web $SiteFullURL -Group $MembersGroup
$web.Dispose()

Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Site Collection at " $SiteFullURL " has been created in the " $ContentDatabaseName " content database" -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host " "
Write-Host "Script Complete!" -ForegroundColor Yellow

hello. thanks for the time.

the other day we setup 2 SharePoint 2013 WFE with SMTP services to receive incoming mail.  and they both are...however the problem is that FE1 takes in about 75% of the emails in the drop folder while FE2 takes the remaining 25%.  Any way this can be done 50/50?

Also we have a public folder that forwards emails to a document library about every second...so we are getting backed up in the queue.  is it possible to have a dedicated Drop folder on a network share?  we tried to add a network share but the Front End IIS virtual SMTP service does not allow a network location...looks like it must be local to the server and I am guessing it would have to be a member of farm.  weird thing is we didn't see the issue in SP2010 ... it was able to handle the load on 2 front end servers.

thanks again for the time and effort.