July 14, 2015, cumulative update for SharePoint Server 2013 (KB3054937) 

after this update sharepoint 2013 workflow is not working any suggestion please

Hello,

i currently stuck with following scenariao:

I have SharepointFarm (2013) hosting Webapp with 2 different Zones - one for internal access (WindowsAuth) and another Zone for external access  with trusted identity provider - ADFS.

External-ADFS User uses certificates for authentication - this works fine so far. Sure i need to give the adfs-user separat permission (AD and ADFS-User are not the same).Finally i´ve read that it is possible to use the AD-Group-Membership to gain permissions in Sharepoint. Great! So i dont need to put every single (ADFS) user separatly.

I use LDAPCP from Codeplex to resolve the correct group in Sharepoint.

But it still wont work - a single user can join and have access based on his permissions, a new user (only member of AD Group/ AD Group(ADFS) is present in Sharepoint) can´t access any of the documents.

What do i need to configure? I´ve tried "Send group membership as Claim" in ADFS.

Any advice? Please let me know if you need more details on Platform, Configuration of ADFS, Claimsmapping in SharePoint.

Thank you for a quick reply.

Hi,

We recently did a migration from TFS Sharepoint 2007 to Sharepoint 2013:

Situation:

-> We had a content Database with "/" Root Site collection in SP 2013 (Already)

-> We attached a content Database from Sharepoint 2007( passed through SP 2010) with the "/" root Site collection in SP 2013

Changes:

-> As we had same "/" root site collection in both the Content Databases, We did mount of SP2007 Content DB( has lot more content) first and then we added  content DB with the "/" root site collection already in SP 2013.

-> As we did this, We lost "/" root site collection in SP2013 from the Content DB already available in SP 2013

Issue:(Receiving 404 Not found when trying to access Subsites Home page)

-> default.aspx from the subsites is not available in the Subistes of the Site collection from the Content DB(exist already) and we are getting 404 "File Not Found" when try to access the sub site home page. All Site contents are available.

Causes:

-> As the "/" root site collection disappeared as the "/" root site collection was already attached to the web application.

-> Due to which, It is not able to access default.aspx

Please suggest me with your inputs. Hope some one must have gone through the issue before.

Many thanks

Venkat

Venkatesan Nadimuthu

Hi,

We are using sharepoint 2013 foundation and we have custom lists and some workflows assigned to that lists.

There is a sharepoint group called "[sitename] Workflow Users" and this group has permissions on every list that workflow runs. Also if a user starts a workflow by creating a new list item, his/her user account adds to this group. (In this workflow we use item based authorization which removes all permissions from item and adds we specify). If we delete this group from sharepoint, after any workflow triggered this group appears again and get all permissions automatically. BTW we can not see this groups permissons in the list permissions page we can see this in the sharepoint database (WSS_Content) Perms table. 

Our problem is; lets say we have two different lists with different permissions. But because of this "[sitename] Workflow Users" group behaviour if a user even does not have permission to a list, he/she can see this list in the quicklunch.

Is there anyway to prevent this behaviour ?

Here is what I have going on. My server is spfe-03. You go to spfe-03 and my project site loads just like it should. You go to spfe-03:12345 and mysites load. Just like It should 

Now I had our DNS guy create a new entry called SharePoint and I added sharepoint as a default zone under AAM and it worked. Now what I would like is my.sharepoint to point to mysites. I created a default zone under AAM for the mysites collection but it doesn't translate. I don't think we need any new records under DNS so I am unsure where to go from here. Any help people could give would be most appreciated.

Hi

We are using SharePoint Foundation 2013. Recently, when choosing the option to Edit a page (Gear icon > Edit Page), I noticed that the Files tab is no longer displayed. This is affecting everyone who uses the site.

I have checked that:

Domain Users have Design, Edit, Contribute, Read permissions for the site as a whole
Site Settings > Sharepoint Designer Settings: 'Enable Sharepoint Designer' and 'Enable Customizing Master Pages and Page Layouts' are enabled
Site Settings > Site Libraries and Lists > 'Customise webpage' > Advanced Settings > 'Make "New Folder" command available? = Yes

The Files tab which contains the Folder command does not appear when I or anyone else choose to edit a page.

Can anyone help me fix this, please?

Thanks.

Hi,

 Would like to know how to get the diagram for app model development infra.

any links is appreciated.

After installing the August 2015 CU's, all sites in all web applications in the farm running on the SharePoint 2013 user interface have the following issue:

Any type of list with attachments allowed > Add or edit list item > Add attachment (in ribbon) > Successfully browse and select any file to attach > Click OK to add the attachment to the list item

A pop up stating “File names can’t contain the following characters:  & “ ? < > # {} % ~ ?/\.” is displayed.

These same steps work correctly in the same farm for sites using the SharePoint 2010 interface - this only seems to affect 2013 sites.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I have installed Feb 2014 CU on my server successfully and running wizard or psconfig upgrade to complete the upgrade throws me with below error

Using psconfig force and clearing cache and re-running wizard help me much. Please help to me to resolve this error.

Error:

Failed to initiate the upgrade sequence.

An exception of type System.MemberAccessException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Cannot create an instance of System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUrlZone,System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T]] because Type.ContainsGenericParameters is true.

System.MemberAccessException: Cannot create an instance of System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUrlZone,System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T]] because Type.ContainsGenericParameters is true.

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.CheckCanCreateInstance(Type declaringType, Boolean isVarArg)

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAutoSerializingObject.InvokeEmptyConstructor(Type type)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAutoSerializingObject.DeserializeBasicObject(XmlElement xmlValue, Boolean isMerge, Boolean bResolveMissingTypes)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAutoSerializingObject.SetStateXml(XmlNodeList childNodes, Boolean isMerge, Boolean bResolveMissingTypes)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAutoSerializingObject.SetStateXml(XmlDocument value, Boolean bResolveMissingTypes)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.Initialize(ISPPersistedStoreProvider persistedStoreProvider, Guid id, Guid parentId, String name, SPObjectStatus status, Int64 version, XmlDocument state)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.GetObject(Guid id, Guid parentId, Guid type, String name, SPObjectStatus status, Byte[] versionBuffer, String xml)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.FetchObject(Guid id)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.GetObject(Guid id, Boolean checkInMemoryCache, Boolean checkFileSystemCache)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.ISPPersistedStoreProvider.GetParent(SPPersistedObject persistedObject)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPJobDefinition.Validate()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.BaseUpdate()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.ResolveObjectAndClassVersions(SPLog log)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPConfigurationDatabaseSequence2.Upgrade()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.Upgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPManager.BootStrap(Guid sessionId, SPUpgradeOperationFlags flags)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeBootstrapTask.Run()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

Symptoms

I'm pretty brand-new to SharePoint, on my first project, and having some major issues with our prototype. The end result is that I'm unable to access Managed or Crawled Properties through our site collection's Search Schema. It displays nothing but "An unknown error occurred."

It displays the same lack of data and error for the crawled properties. However, it does show that there are properties in the Categories link, but if I click a category, it returns nothing but the error again.

Perhaps most importantly, when I check the schema in the Search Service Application from Central Administration (or from our other site collection), everything shows up just fine!

Steps Leading to Problem

In attempting to add a term set as a search refiner, I read some articles and decided to try: enabling Cross-Site Collection Publishing for our site collection, setting our Document Set as a catalog, doing some other things (forgive the vagueness; I read through a lot of articles), and then somehow from there I was meant to be able to run a crawl and find the properties that the term group is applied to.

Perhaps it was the incremental crawling (I didn't know of any other way to crawl), but this didn't work either. So I decided to turn off Cross-Site Collection Publishing. SharePoint warned me that I might get some crazy errors...and it was right.

In Closing

Is there any way to get these search schema properties back? Possibly from Central Administration?

Thank you!

Hi,

I have make some edits in HTML and JS file under site assets.

So I want to take a copy of  "Site1" and create a new copy "Site2" in same site collections

Can any body point the PS script?, will there be any impact if i put in same collection?

Thanks for your time

Thanks,

Mike

Hi All,

I am receiving this message in our Health Reports on a new SP 2013 farm deployment. I previously was having some issues with the Distributed Cache service and undeployed it from one server. When I launch PowerShell and specify "Get-CacheHost" I only get one result and its the only CacheHost in the farm. 

This is coincidentally the same server that CA is complaining about:

I guess my question is, if there is only 1 cache host running then how are there "More" cache hosts running than registered. Is there somewhere else they are registered?

I checked the CacheConfig XML and there is only 1 host under the <hosts> section.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Matt

Hi Team,

During SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 migration last step is Visual upgrade , I have following queries

1. I observed that is SP2010 to SP2013 visual upgrade is very time consuming process - Any idea what exactly happens at backgroup 

2. Why it is taking so much time - for migration for 65 GB - Almost 12+ Hrs.

3. is it possible to do parallel visual upgrade for multiple content databases on multiple WFE or APP server?

or if one content DB having 1000+ site collection then possibilities to divide site collections for visual upgrade.

4. if yes please specify command

for content Database level below command works.

Get-SPSite -contentdatabase Content_DBNanme -limit All | Upgrade-SPSite -versionUpgrade  

My intention is to save visual upgrade time and faster the migration process to reduce production downtime. Please suggest.

Thanks ,

Santosh Kanase.

SharePoint Santosh Kanase

Hi all,

I want to add a new property in User Profile Service. I have a multi tenant environment and so I'm using the Tenant Admin site to do this. The issue is every time I try to access the "Manage User Properties" page, the page does not show any properties, instead it shows in the properties section the message: "Your search encountered an error. If the problem persists, contact the portal site administrator."

And in event view the error is: 

Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Access to the requested resource(s) is denied
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.GetCurrentUserFromSecurityIdentifier()
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.GetCurrentUser()
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.Enumerate(Message request)

I've restarted the User Profile Service and User Profile Synchronization Service services as many posts suggests and check that the account used for synchronization (SP Farm) has access to the profile databases.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Many thanks.

Recieving the error :

Enable-SPFeature : Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityNotFoundException: The
activity named 'WorkflowXaml_9ac9faf9_5f9a_406d_adab_cc5c1220bad8' from scope '
/SharePoint/default/a8bd170c-fd91-4c18-bfb7-34ec4b7470db/49417dfd-185a-4ee8-a50
e-927d4cb0d442' was not found. HTTP headers received from the server -
ActivityId: 991311a0-6105-42d4-992a-455f4c5c3260. NodeId: AZURESPSDEV06.
Scope: /SharePoint/default/a8bd170c-fd91-4c18-bfb7-34ec4b7470db/49417dfd-185a-4
ee8-a50e-927d4cb0d442. Client ActivityId : e45263e9-7dd3-43d6-
At line:1 char:1
+ Enable-SPFeature -identity 719ad7ab-8380-4bac-be6c-78f2a76ca1e4 -URL
"http://azu ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...etEnableFeature:
   SPCmdletEnableFeature) [Enable-SPFeature], SPException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletEnableFe
   ature

I have already set below in Element of.xml,

<PropertyName="WSPublishState"Value="3"/>

Also deployed and configured the Workflow Manager related settings properly, still receiving the above issue.

Hi All, 

We have a requirement to set up Office Web Apps 2013 server on SharePoint Server 2013 environment.  
However, a couple of web applications MUST NOT use Office Web Apps 2013 as that department using Office Web Apps 2013. 

How can we scope OWA 2013 to a specific web application? 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you!  

Sandy

I have upgrade my intranet from sharepoint 2010 to 2013 recently. All pages and libraries are working fine except the following scenario:

- in any document library; if I have folders once I click over it; the page shows white screen and not loading

after investigation I realize that the view ID in my normal navigation become caps while the SharePoint can process the lowercase one

i.e.

the below is the URL when I click on the folder which is not working

http://<SERVERNAME>/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2FPlanNDevelop%2FOperational%20Plan%2FEvidence&FolderCTID=0x0120002F13FA7601E89E47AFAF552EBB3F74FD&View={4F7AEBBE-D765-4CA9-B710-9D50632F55E3}

if I changed it to lowercase like below it will work

<a href="http:///Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2FPlanNDevelop%2FOperational%20Plan%2FEvidence&FolderCTID=0x0120002F13FA7601E89E47AFAF552EBB3F74FD&View={4f7aebbe-d765-4ca9-b710-9d50632f55e3">http://<SERVERNAME>/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2FPlanNDevelop%2FOperational%20Plan%2FEvidence&FolderCTID=0x0120002F13FA7601E89E47AFAF552EBB3F74FD&View={4f7aebbe-d765-4ca9-b710-9d50632f55e3}

When I check the log I am getting the below error:

Exception while routing request: 'The request was aborted: The request was canceled.', StackTrace '   at System.Net.ConnectStream.CloseInternal(Boolean internalCall, Boolean aborting)     at System.Net.ConnectStream.System.Net.ICloseEx.CloseEx(CloseExState closeState)     at System.Net.ConnectStream.Dispose(Boolean disposing)     at System.IO.Stream.Close()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPRoutingReverseProxy.CopyRequestData(SPRoutingReverseProxyState state)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPRoutingReverseProxy.Execute(SPRequestManagementSettings settings, HttpContext context, SPRoutingMachineInfo finalTarget, String connectionId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPRequestManagementSettings.RouteRequest(HttpContext context, SPRoutingMachineInfo finalTarget)

Thanks and Regards,

Ali

Hello everyone,

I've been having this "almost random" error on a newly created test environement ( 3 servers : AD, SQL, and SP)

I can't create a site collection from the Central Admin, even with PowerShell, it does not work, I get the same error : User can not be found !
From the CA, the people picker of the primary site collection admin does not even resolve the user ! The fun fact is that after I reboot the SP Server, I can actually create a site collection, but only once ! After some minutes, if I try to create another site collection, it gives the error already mentionned ! This is driving me crazy ...

Further debugging, ULS logs show : Unable to reach catalog ...

If I go to security -> Manage service accounts, I get an error page with the famous error "the trust relationshipbetween thisworkstation andthe primary domain failed"

Again, after I tried many many solutions from the net, I give up and reboot the box, and this gets it done, but only for some minutes.

I know that this is happening for a reason, but I can't find why, and this is driving me crazy!

Any help would be much appreciated .

JH

Issue: Moving SharePoint from one server to new one and using different server URL broke all the infopath templates references in document libraries that use infopath.

I'm trying to find a script that can go through all libraries and if they are using infopath then relink the documents to the infopath template.

This checklist guide https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607663.aspx  mentioned the following:

Update links that are used in any upgraded InfoPath form templates

For a database-attach upgrade, you exported and imported all InfoPath form templates in your environment when you created the new environment. After upgrade, you can now update the links that are used in those upgraded form templates to point to the correct URLs by using a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

For more information, see Configure InfoPath Forms Services (SharePoint Server 2010).

So does anyone have a Powershell cmlet that will do this step??

Thanks!

J.

Hi everyone,

We've got a weird problem: when a user navigates to a specific site collection (via mobile), then he/she sees everything normally (due to theRead rights that user has on that level).

When that same person wants to add something to a simple list within that site (or edit), then they get an Access Denied error message (even though they have enough permissions:Contribute). This only happens in the mobile view. When the same users does everything on a desktop then there are no issues.

I've checked the (effective) permissions a million times, they're correct.

More background info: it's a Foundation site. The mobile views for editting/creating items for the above list work when you give the user Contribute permissions on the root site (instead on the list itself). The permissions for the list are broken up from its parent. Looks like it's trying to call a masterpage or something different from the normal views when editting/creating items and the minimum of permission needed there is contribute? Maybe someone has a clue where or how?

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem.

Thanks in advanced!

With kind regards,

M. Hekman