Hi All,

We are in process of setting up a dedicated distrusted search server.

While we passed the ports (22233-22236) to network team that are required by distributed cache server. We have already set up SharePoint and configured so it's connected to farm. In turned on Distributed cache service both via Powershell as well as in Central Administration UI. We received "A failure occurred in SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::Provision. cacheHostInfo is null for host ‘DCServer’ "error in PowerShell and in Central Administration UI it it showedError Starting. We have already conveyed this to network issue and they mentioned it's an application issue and not port issue

1. Is it really a port issue as this new DC server is not able to netstat the ports  (22233-22236). Here is the SharePoint ULS Logs on Distributed Cache Server

05/17/2015 15:43:46.40	OWSTIMER.EXE (0x043C)	0x0B64	SharePoint Foundation	DistributedCache	af6fq	Unexpected	A failure occurred in SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::Provision. cacheHostInfo is null for host 'DCServer'.	1030079d-4c0e-20ef-7652-61fdc639746b
05/17/2015 15:43:46.40	OWSTIMER.EXE (0x043C)	0x0B64	SharePoint Foundation	DistributedCache	aelvf	Unexpected	A failure occurred SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::Provision() , Exception 'System.InvalidOperationException: cacheHostInfo is null     at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities.SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance.Provision()'	1030079d-4c0e-20ef-7652-61fdc639746b
05/17/2015 15:43:46.40	OWSTIMER.EXE (0x043C)	0x0B64	SharePoint Foundation	Topology	7034	Critical	An attempt to start/stop instance  of service Distributed Cache on server DCServer did not succeed.  Re-run the action via UI or command line on the specified server. Additional information is below.  cacheHostInfo is null	1030079d-4c0e-20ef-7652-61fdc639746b
05/17/2015 15:43:46.40	OWSTIMER.EXE (0x043C)	0x0B64	SharePoint Foundation	Timer	3899	Critical	Error executing service instance (un)provisioning job.  Service instance: "Distributed Cache" (id "7f6951dc-7bbc-4cc3-8c28-0131a8db6b0b) "cacheHostInfo is null""	1030079d-4c0e-20ef-7652-61fdc639746b

We referred tothis URL http://www.ericjochens.com/2014/02/sharepoint-2013-distributed-cache-issues.html and author mentions that 1st issue is port and if its ports are not opened, distributed cache server may not function correctly?

2. We have 1 Application server, and 4 web front end servers. We have removed the Distributed Cache instance across servers as we have dedicated distriubuted cache server. 
Will this dedicated cache server can manage all WEFs and Application server for all social workloads? How can verify if it's new service is working for all servers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Sandy

Hi.

I'm trying to convert docx in pdf . I'm using Powershell script .

In WAS db Error Code returned is 10 . In Event Log error is 8317 for sharePoint Foundation Application .

Has someone resolved this issue ?

Recently after adding a 3rd Web server to a SharePoint 2013 SP1 farm incoming emails getting stuck (in Drop folder) time to time. I've checked few threads already like these (1, 2 and 3).

Restarting SharePoint Timer Service in all WFE servers seem to resume emails flow most of time. A number of times it appears I need to wait over night for the emails to be picked up. May be "Timer Service recycle" over night helps? Also everytime emails are stuck it appears to be the same WFE server. 

We've configured Incoming emails as per this Technet article following "basic scenario" and SMTP and IIS configured on all WFE servers. Now my question is whether "advanced scenario" is required for multi-server farm? Any suggestion/ comment would be appreciated! 

Thanks in advanced!

BlueSky2010
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My SharePoint server isn't allowed outgoing Internet access for security reasons, therefore normal Help function doesn't work.

I have downloaded the SharePoint 2013 CHM Offline help file  and can use it myself but want to make it available to the users via the site help as well.

I have set up a Custom Help  collection and configured it so that it can show the Help file that I've uploaded and it is selectable, but the CHM file displays rubbish characters when opened.

What format should it be? Or what resources need to be added to make it work, does anyone have any idea?  

Any clues gratefully accepted...

We have set up SSRS service application in our farm and we are able to deploy ssrs reports from our SQL server which is attached to the farm and this SQL server has SSRS installed in SharePoint integrated mode which was a pre-requisite to  have ssrs with SP.

Now we have another user who is in the same company (same network) and his team has a SQL server (not attached to our SP Farm)  and he wants to deploy reports to his SharePointsite hosted in our environment.Should he also need to have ssrs installed in SharePoint integrated mode inorder to deploy to the site in our farm ? If so can his SQL server have SSRS installed in both Native and SharePoint integrated mode at the same time ?

I am considering how to package my workflow (in SP2010 workflow platform) from test environment to production. The 2 environments are installed under different domain and separated.

After reading this article:
Understanding how to package and deploy workflow in SharePoint 2013

It seems I can easily export the workflow as WSP file, upload to production and activate it as solution.

However, my workflow is a globally reusable workflow. Also it contains several  impersonate steps. According to my understanding, the impersonate steps means the workflow will run on behalf of user who "Publish" it. (I read another article say it will run on behalf of user who "Last modify" it. I am not sure)

How can I specific who is the "impersonate user" using WSP file deployment method?

Dear friends,

                        We had to rename the username (e.g. Domain\P3332255 to Domain\newuser1) of 60+ users in the AD and need to sync it back to the SharePoint 2013 side. My web application consists of 7 site collections. After running the full sychronization I get the updated users for 6 site collections. But only for 1 site collection, still it shows the old user name. I checked the user properties within the site collection and I see the creation date is 12/01/2013 (an old profile). 

                        What do I have to do to get the new user profile for this site collection ?

furthermore I tried, stsadm migrate user command. But it didn't work. 

Thanks,

Nilanka

Regards

HI 

when i try to open dashboard designer and when i  open dashboard pages i got this error every time.

Unable to load DLL 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Native.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) 

adil

Moved the site collection by database detach/attach (1 site collection/content db) . there is a SP 2013 list workflow deployed from SPD 2013 . on the migrated site collection in the list when click on workflow status column fail with "We cant find the workflow" error. from ULS log found the issue. URL requested is in format:
 
<a href="http://_layouts/15/wrkstat.aspx?List=<GuidList>&WorkflowInstanceName=<WorkflowInstanceGuid">http://<site_collection>_layouts/15/wrkstat.aspx?List=<GuidList>&WorkflowInstanceName=<WorkflowInstanceGuid>
 
the list guid remains the same (as in original site collection) but the workflow instance name guid becomes different and this is why SP cannot find worflow.
 
Can get the WFM and association like below

#Getting a Workflow manager object to work with.
 $wfm = New-object Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServicesManager($spSourceweb)
 
#Getting the subscriptions
 $sub = $wfm.GetWorkflowSubscriptionService()
 
$WFAssociations = $sub.EnumerateSubscriptionsByList($spSourcelist.ID) | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "$TargetWorkflow"}

but cannot get in Powershell
 
1. the WorkflowInstanceName and

2. how to update WorkflowInstanceName for each item of the list

My account which I've not modified for a long time just all of a sudden decides it has no email address in SharePoint. I have made no modifications at all. My workflows just stopped returning my email address.

Anyone know why?  Kind of scary that stuff just 'drops' off.

David Jenkins

Hi 

I am facing the below issue  I have one application server with SP Server 2013 and one DB server with SQL server 2014 

UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure MIIS post database, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: ERR_CONFIG_DB    

I have tried different ways to troubleshoot the issue . 

I have installed April CU , my current build is 15.0.4569.1000 . I have installed KB 2760265  , I have also added the  user profile service account WSS_WPG and WSS-ADMIn_WPG and FIM Groups .  Given " Logon as service " . Given user profile administrator rights from user profile service application in central administration . Checked SQLServer 2008 native client is there . 

What else I have missed ??? Please help here . 

Srini

I created a similar thread in the .Net Assemblies forum a few months ago.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/49ab4756-9edb-48de-83ec-66e3deb6800e/net-error-on-my-sharepoint-2013-server-exception-type-zlibexception?forum=netfxbcl

I thought the issue was resolved but it is not. I've removed essentially allWindows and .Net patches on the server in question that were installed between when the system worked, and when it ceased to do so. I've attempted a .Net 4.5 repair. I've done what was suggested in the other thread and added the relevant config sections to my web.config. I've also attempted to install hotfix KB958854 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958854) - but it stated that it was not relevant and wouldn't install.

The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. I have other environments also running 2008 R2 SP1 that work as expected.

Essentially the behavior I'm seeing is that our SharePoint site renders OK, but when I go to edit the page, or try to load a page that has say a list view or something similar, it doesn't render correctly and the following Warning is thrown in the Application Event Viewer.

ANY assistance at all would be so very appreciated. I've tried opening tickets with Microsoft but dealing with Tier 1 support is exhausting to say the least. This is a classified system and I cannot let them remote into it. I cannot install any of their troubleshooting/monitoring software and they can't seem to understand that.

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Event code: 3012
Event message: An error occurred processing a web or script resource request. The requested resource 'ZSystem.Web.Extensions,4.0.0.0,,31bf3856ad364e35|MicrosoftAjax.js|' does not exist or there was a problem loading it.
 Event time: 6/22/2015 5:16:14 PM
Event time (UTC): 6/22/2015 9:16:14 PM
Event ID: 2aefe721f86348cea672e3be62b0af24
Event sequence: 11
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0
 
 Application information:
    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/575787611/ROOT-1-130794813094052850
    Trust level: Full
    Application Virtual Path: /
    Application Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\XXXXXXXXX
    Machine name: XXXXXXXX
 
 Process information:
    Process ID: 4948
    Process name: w3wp.exe
    Account name: XXXXXXXXX
 
 Exception information:
    Exception type: ZLibException
    Exception message: The underlying compression routine could not be loaded correctly.
    at System.IO.Compression.DeflaterZLib.DeflateInit(CompressionLevel compressionLevel, Int32 windowBits, Int32 memLevel, CompressionStrategy strategy)
    at System.IO.Compression.DeflaterZLib..ctor(CompressionLevel compressionLevel)
    at System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream..ctor(Stream stream, CompressionMode mode, Boolean leaveOpen)
    at System.IO.Compression.GZipStream..ctor(Stream stream, CompressionMode mode, Boolean leaveOpen)
    at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpResponseBase response, String decryptedString, VirtualFileReader fileReader)
    at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContextBase context, VirtualFileReader fileReader, Action`2 logAction, Boolean validatePath)
 
The type initializer for 'NativeZLibDLLStub' threw an exception.
    at System.IO.Compression.ZLibNative.ZLibStreamHandle.DeflateInit2_(CompressionLevel level, Int32 windowBits, Int32 memLevel, CompressionStrategy strategy)
    at System.IO.Compression.DeflaterZLib.DeflateInit(CompressionLevel compressionLevel, Int32 windowBits, Int32 memLevel, CompressionStrategy strategy)
 
Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
    at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
    at System.IO.Compression.ZLibNative.ZLibStreamHandle.NativeZLibDLLStub.LoadZLibDLL()
    at System.IO.Compression.ZLibNative.ZLibStreamHandle.NativeZLibDLLStub..cctor()
 
 
 
 Request information:
    Request URL: http://XXXXXXXXX/ScriptResource.axd?d=E93HyUYXl1V98EQAnw7kqElB1PHEociMHjagKZtzVrYxwVrmPrmIQQOH5nTJL4Ped1ENOTRUDyYUo-15m0CCVswEFvFkcyIYMAdpgM8NfKcaPCV-sq36iVRpN4CwMDgOwrtH7mzGDPrhjB-_MYHKYMr5b589-NMHHzR_MfPUimeSkl4WOzERVNscVPl1a2zi0&t=6119e399
     Request path: /ScriptResource.axd
    User host address: XXXXXXXXXXX
    User: 
    Is authenticated: False
    Authentication Type: 
    Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\IUSR
 
 Thread information:
    Thread ID: 9
    Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\IUSR
    Is impersonating: False
    Stack trace:    at System.IO.Compression.DeflaterZLib.DeflateInit(CompressionLevel compressionLevel, Int32 windowBits, Int32 memLevel, CompressionStrategy strategy)
    at System.IO.Compression.DeflaterZLib..ctor(CompressionLevel compressionLevel)
    at System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream..ctor(Stream stream, CompressionMode mode, Boolean leaveOpen)
    at System.IO.Compression.GZipStream..ctor(Stream stream, CompressionMode mode, Boolean leaveOpen)
    at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpResponseBase response, String decryptedString, VirtualFileReader fileReader)
    at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContextBase context, VirtualFileReader fileReader, Action`2 logAction, Boolean validatePath)

I have a user that has set up alerts for a list, and when he sets up the alerts he gets an email indicting that it was successful. He will then get alerts for that list for the remainder of that day. The next day, he no longer gets alerts, but everyone else that has signed up still gets them. If he removes the alert and then sets it up again, he will get alerts for that day and they will stop again.

This doesn't appear to be happening to anyone but him. And I've checked the logs in our Exchange server, it's not that they're coming in and failing, they just aren't coming in.

Hi All,

We have a setup of SharePoint 2013 Standard env.

We have requirement to brand particular site in our environment. For that I have customized the Top level navigation as well created custom page layout with 6 webpart zones ( 2 rows and 3 columns web part zones) and the custom master page.

Here in my site landing page I want to show Slide Show with complete page Width 100% and Height should be 30 to 40% of total page layout width For example it should look like this site's slide show.http://www.woodside.com.au/Pages/home.aspx this is branded SharePoint Site.

And same I want to have 3 to 4 web-part zones after that slide in center exactly similar tohttp://www.woodside.com.au/Pages/home.aspx .

So expert can you please direct me how to proceed further to get this custom page layout created.

Thanks and let me know in case have any other queries.

Hi,

As per the requirement,

If the documents have been modified before 16th August 2015,then those documents should be moved to another document library called ArchiveDoclib.

Now in site content types,

Document Content Types->Document

Created a site column with name Date Modified of Type Date and Time with Status Optional

Now in the rule,have set the property based condition as

Property : Date Modified

Operator : is less than 

Value : 8/16/2015

But still the documents haven't moved whose modified date is 21st November 2014.

Please let me know if I am making any mistake

Regards,

Sudheer

Thanks & Regards, Sudheer

Hi,

I have a document library and i want to disable inheritance which i have done via library settings. Now what i want is whenever anyone creates a folder in this document library this folder should not inherit permissions from document library. This can have permissions only to creator and no one else. Can this be done ?

Thanks, Rishi Pandit.

All,

I am getting the following error - when I drop a webpart into my page using SharePoint 2013 on a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 - Note: I do not have access to the code. I have run a sfc /scanner command to try and remedy any items that maybe missing or corrupt.

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Hi,

We have upgraded our SharePoint 2013 environment with August 2015 CU, after that we are seeing Upgrade Required status for Application server. When we ran the Config wizard first time, it got failed with Feature missing errors, after running config wizard again it went success but it showing Upgrade Required. This is not showing for the rest of the servers where the config wizard success in first attempt. We have ran the config wizard for couple times but no luck. Can anyone tell me why the status is not updating after the success of config wizard.

Your help will be greatly appreciated !

Thanks.

Nisanth.M