Hi,

Following problem:

• Domain A contains old accounts
• Domain B contains new accounts with sid-history of old accounts
• Between these server is a two way trust

I need to setup the people-picker to show only accounts from Domain A (old accounts), not the new ones and i cannot disable accounts on Domain B.

But i only get accounts from Domain B.

Already tried:

I have tried to block the account from reading the OU in Domain B -> no success. (Description)

I have entered to use explictly Domain A in the PeoplePickerSettings

Setup:

2x SP 2013 (CU February 2015)

1x SQL-Server 2014

Are there any other settings to solve this problem ?

Hi,

I have a SharePoint list which the user enter his incident information including system, severity, type, title, and description etc. How can I sync this SharePoint list information to populate a TFS workitem AUTOMATICALLY? Any help is greatly appreciated. A link to some tutorial or step by step instruction would be great.

Hi All,

I have upgraded a SharePoint 2010 classic mode site to SharePoint 2013 claims authentication. I have executed the command MgrateUser($true) and the user account is updated to Claims mode and I am able to login to the site.

Now I have extended the site to use forms authentication against Active Directory. How do I update the accounts to Form Authentcation mode using Powershell, is there any command available.

Thanks & Regards

pankaj

Started with the default collation Latin1_General_CI_AS for the SQL Server 2012 db instance. Run the installation and configurations and database attach for all content databases. all content dbs were created by SP they had the proper collation Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS, as well as search, UP and all service applications.

However , the Service Bus (3 dbs) and Workflow (3 dbs) got the default  Latin1_General_CI_AS collation. is this going to be a problem?

Greetings,

I have a scenario where psconfig hangs on a server and need to determine why.

BACKGROUND:

This is a fairly small farm containing 3 SharePoint servers:

Web Front-end Server - Server 03
Search Server - Server 02 (This is dedicated to search services)
App Server - Server 01 (this is where Central Administration runs)

All servers and services have been running.

On Saturday, I installed the March 10, 2015 CU on all 3 servers without any issues.

Afterwards, I was able to successfully run "psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force" on servers 03 and 02 without any issues.

On the App Server 01, I started psconfig (from PowerShell) and it got to the upgrade stage then hung.  I allowed it to run for hours then finally interrupted it.

PSCDiagnostics:

Looking at the PSCDiagnostics log file, I noticed, starting at line 4636, I started seeing warning (WRN) entries.

03/29/2015 19:32:50  13  WRN            Failed to add the service connection point for this farm
03/29/2015 19:32:50  13  INF            Entering function StringResourceManager.GetResourceString
03/29/2015 19:32:50  13  INF              Resource id to be retrieved is ServiceConnectionPointNotCreatedEventLog for language English (United States)
03/29/2015 19:32:50  13  INF              Resource retrieved id ServiceConnectionPointNotCreatedEventLog is Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
03/29/2015 19:32:50  13  INF            Leaving function StringResourceManager.GetResourceString
03/29/2015 19:32:50  13  WRN            Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The object LDAP://CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products,CN=System,DC=CORP,DC={DC NAME},DC=COM doesn't exist in the directory.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceConnectionPoint.Ensure(String serviceBindingInformation)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF            Entering function TaskCommon.TraceToPsconfigLogAndUpgradeManagerLog
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF              Spawning off the upgrade job
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF            Leaving function TaskCommon.TraceToPsconfigLogAndUpgradeManagerLog
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF            Trying to start the SPAdminV4 service
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF            Entering function ServiceHelper.TryToStartService
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF              Trying to start the SPAdminV4 service
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF              Entering function ServiceHelper.Start
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF                Trying to start service SPAdminV4 and waiting 180 sec to do so
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF                service SPAdminV4 is Stopped, will try to start it
03/29/2015 19:33:11  13  INF                starting service SPAdminV4 (it may already be started)
03/29/2015 19:33:12  13  INF              Leaving function ServiceHelper.Start
03/29/2015 19:33:12  13  INF            Leaving function ServiceHelper.TryToStartService
03/29/2015 19:33:12  13  INF            Entering function TaskCommon.TraceToPsconfigLogAndUpgradeManagerLog
03/29/2015 19:33:12  13  INF              Yielding psconfig session on current thread to allow the admin service to run upgrade in the background.
03/29/2015 19:33:12  13  INF            Leaving function TaskCommon.TraceToPsconfigLogAndUpgradeManagerLog
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF            Starting all registered services
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF            Entering function UpgradeTask.StartAllServices
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF              Entering function get CommandCollection.this[string key]
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                Entering function CommandCollectionBase.Get
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                  Found value in collection for key initialize
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                Leaving function CommandCollectionBase.Get
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                Found command initialize in collection
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF              Leaving function get CommandCollection.this[string key]
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF              Entering function Command.this[string key]
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                Entering function CommandCollectionBase.Get
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                  Found value in collection for key B2B_UPGRADE
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                Leaving function CommandCollectionBase.Get
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF                Found parameter B2B_UPGRADE in collection
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF              Leaving function Command.this[string key]
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF              Starting Service ProjectCalcServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:15  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the ProjectCalcServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:16  13  INF              Starting Service SPTracingServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:16  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the SPTracingServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:16  13  INF              Starting Service SPUserCodeServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:16  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the SPUserCodeServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:16  13  INF              Starting Service ProjectEventServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:16  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the ProjectEventServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:17  13  INF              Starting Service SPAdministrationServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:17  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the SPAdministrationServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:17  13  INF              Starting Service SPTimerServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:17  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the SPTimerServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:18  13  INF              Starting Service ProjectQueueServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:18  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the ProjectQueueServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:19  13  INF              Starting Service SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance
03/29/2015 19:33:19  13  INF              Detected that this is a build to build upgrade. Re-provision the SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance service
03/29/2015 19:33:20  13  INF            Leaving function UpgradeTask.StartAllServices
03/29/2015 19:33:20  13  INF            SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
03/29/2015 19:33:30  13  INF            SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
03/29/2015 19:33:40  13  INF            SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
03/29/2015 19:33:50  13  INF            SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
03/29/2015 19:34:00  13  INF            SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds

- Then there are a bazillion of the above sleeping entries.

Any thoughts on what could be happening?

Thank you!

Bob

Hi,

I've just set up my App Management Service, and have the app domain.  Since we are in an SSL environment, apps are now giving me security warnings.

We've obtained a wildcard certificate for the app domain.  The question I have is, where do I bind it in IIS?  We have our SharePoint web application with its own IIS certificate.  There doesn't seem to be a definitive source of info on setting up the certificate for the app domain, at least that I can find.

Any help would be most useful and appreciated!

Hello SharePoint Fam,

I have a weird issue that is causing me some issues after I save a site as template.  I am noticing that a duplicate "Approval Workflow Task" is being created after using the plain ootb Team site template.  Once I try to use this site as a template I get a error message saying "A duplicate content type name "Approval Workflow Task (en-US)" was found."  I am not sure where I can go to remove these duplicate content types.  When I try to delete them using regular GUI i get error stating that they are in use and can't be deleted.  Just lost on why the plain Team Site template is doing this.

Thanks N Advance

Hello Community,

I'm working with SharePoint 2013, with two domains, on a two way trust, using Active Directory Import, but the People Picker is only showing Users from one Domain.  has anyone else ever seen this issue and if so can you help me resolve it?

Thanks!

Tom

Tom Molskow - Senior SharePoint Architect - Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 and 2012 Award - Linked-In - SharePoint Gypsy

Hello everyone,

My efforts to find documentation online regarding the steps I need to follow to configure Sharepoint for multiple domain access have been in vain.  The information I find is fairly outdated or not applicable.

I have Sharepoint 2013 configured in a muli-server farm using claims authentication.  It is hosed on servers in DOMAIN1, runs using service accounts in DOMAIN1 and so far only users from DOMAIN1 log on to these web applications.  We have a new requirement to allow users from DOMAIN2, external to our systems, to log in for a while and access basic information.

Firewall configuration has been set to allow access to DOMAIN2, and a 2 way trust has been established between DOMAIN1 and DOMAIN2.  A group has been created on DOMAIN1 for permissions management (eg DOMAIN1\externalperms), and some DOMAIN2 users have been added to that group.

In my Sharepoint development environment, where everything runs using Network Service and Local System, the linkage to the new domain was automatic.  I could add DOMAIN2 users for permissions, and granting permissions on DOMAIN1\externalperms extended access to those DOMAIN2 users.

In production, it has not been so automatic.  Production runs using service accounts rather than Network Service.  I can only find some DOMAIN2 users, not all of them.  I can give those users permissions and they can log in.  But, permissions applied to DOMAIN1\externalperms do not get applied to them even though they are members.  The users I can't find exist in different containers on DOMAIN2, so it seems like Sharepoint doesn't have access to some containers.

I can't find a clear guide that lets me know what needs to be done to diagnose the problem. Why is there a difference between how it worked in Dev vs Prod?  Would it be related to the service accounts used in Prod?  Can anyone provide insight into why I would only be able to find some DOMAIN2 users, and why permissions aren't extending through the DOMAIN1\externalperms group?

Thanks

Hi -

Is there an easy way to find all items on a SharePoint sub-site that have not been modified in the past year?

I tried the powershell script below, but get an error:

Get-SPSite : The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does not take pipeline input or the input and its properties do not match any of the parameters that take pipeline input.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

# Set the date Filter
$dateFilter = (Get-Date).AddMonths(-12) #Past Month

"File, Created Time, File Size" | out-file NewDocuments.csv

# Get all Webs
$webs = Get-SPWebApplication "http://sharepoint" | Get-SPSite http://sharepoint/mdocs | Get-SPWeb http://sharepoint/mdocs

#Iterate through webs
ForEach ($web in $webs)
{
   #Iterate through All Lists
    ForEach ($list in $web.Lists)
 {
  #Check for Document Libraries
        If ($list.BaseType -eq "DocumentLibrary")
  {
     #Iterate through All documents
                   ForEach ($item in $list.Items)
   {
                  If ($item.URL.StartsWith("_")) {Break} #Skip _catalogs, etc
                  If ($item.URL.EndsWith(".aspx")) {Break} #Skip Form pages
                    If ($item.File.TimeCreated -ge $dateFilter)
    {
                      $result = """$($web.URL)/$($item.URL)"", $($item.File.TimeCreated), $(

[Math]::Round($item.File.Length/1024,2))"
                      $result | Out-File NewDocuments.csv -Append
                 }
                }
        }
    }
}

Hi there all,

I have now spent the best part of a day trying to install SharePoint 2013 and am rapidly running out of ideas...

I have a Windows 2012 Server running under Hyper-V with 8 processors and 12Gb RAM assigned (from the original machine creation through to current) I have installed the server, installed all updates, installed the pre-requisites from the SharePoint Server 2013 with SP1 pre-requisite installer using an active internet connection, re-run all the Windows and other product updates, rebooted several times just to make sure, then proceeded with SharePoint server setup. It gets to nearly the end of the binary install and then errors before it would usually say "finalizing the installation"

Setup log file reports:

2015/03/30 22:41:38:091::[3324] Error: Failed to install product:  D:\global\oserver.MSI ErrorCode: 1603(0x643).

So far I have found a TON of other people reporting similar error codes to mine and almost all have recommended that I change the number of processors in the Hyper-V environment to "more than 1" however I have now tried with 1, 2, 4, and 8 all to no avail and re-built Windows with 8 processors assigned from the start to avoid any prior complications with changing things after running the pre-requisites installer.

I have also found a number of people claiming that opening the MSI oserver file with ORCA and dropping the ARPWRITE parameter will fix this issue (which I have tested and it works fine when this is done), however surely MS don't ship a product where an out of the box MSDN install requires you to hack MSI files to make it work!

I have tried some of the other solutions suggested too, but surely this should just work with an out of the box 2012 server install and an out of the box SharePoint install!

Can anyone think of anything I may have done wrong please???

Hello,

we have upgraded to Office 2013 and we wnt to make use of the synchronization through OneDrive for Business.

In the production Farm we have SSL implementing which seems to produce for some reason connection issues, because in our Test-Farm with no SSL the synchronization functions without a problem. We are using Kerberos for the authentication.

When we try to synchronize we first get the Security-Info:

and then after accepting to proceed we get a connection error message:

I am Site Collections Administrator, therefore there is no permission issue, and the synchronization-option at the Site Collection-level is activated.

Any help is appreciated!

Many thanks,

Ioannis

I want to get list of all libraries along with sizes ( including permissions if possible) in top level site collection and also there is subsite under this , I need same information for the subsite.

Is there any way we can get it through or some third party tools. Please help me.

Thanks, Ram Ch

Hi guys,

Here is my problem.

We are working with SharePoint 2013 Foundation.

The repro steps are:

- Alice push a new document in a folder.

- The document needs to be check in (for the first time).

- The file has never been checked, so i can see it through : Library settings > Manage checked out files (i'm not sure it's the correct title 'cause my SharePoint version is in french).

- I check the file.

- I click on "take ownership of selected file"

- and the error appears:

" Sorry... We have encountered an issue"

Correlation ID: 4c0ef89c-4d9b-60fd-5289-b4d0524c5581

Any idea guys ?

Thanks.

ps: by the way, sorry for my English.

I've done this installation successfully a few times before.  On all other times for SP 2013 with SQL 2012 SSRS, I installed on the application server because it was the only server.

This time I'm installing into a FARM.  One of the DEV guys asked me to install it on one of the WFE server in the farm so i did.  The installation was successful.  to verify the installation I run this command.

get-spserviceinstance -all |where {$_.TypeName -like "SQL Server Reporting*"} | Start-SPServiceInstance
and I get this reply..
WARNING: 'SQL Server Reporting Services Service' is already started on server 'Server1'
The next steps are to create a reporting services application.  However, in central admin, that option doesn't show up under "Manage Service Applications" - "New"
The Microsoft instructions say this means it wasn't installed correctly.  When I go to manage services, then select my WFE server, it doesn't show SQL Server Reporting Services Service 
Yet when I go back and re-run the shell command it says it's installed and running.  I've rebooted the farm to no avail.  Anyone know what I did wrong?
Am I supposed to install this on the application server instead of the WFE?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

I have some users who are currently able to edit a page and edit page properties, which I do not want them to do. They have a custom permission level set up as follows:

For List Permissions they have: Edit, items, View items, Open items, View Application Pages.

For Site Permissions they have View Pages , Browse User information, Use remote Interfaces and open.

They have no Personal Permissions.

How can I prevent these users from editing pages? Even if they lose the 'Browse and Page' links on the ribbon that would be okay.

Thank you!

Love them all...regardless. - Buddha

Jeff Tucker Engineer