Hello.

We have just identified an issue in our on premise 2013 farm.

We have been using "base sites" to provision site collections across our organisation. These are just site collections that have been set up to a base level ready for use (eg configuration of lists libraries and pages)

For site provisioning, our BA's tell us what type of site they need and we duplicate that site using powershell Copy-SPSite.

We have just discovered, that while Copy-SPSite generates a new GUID for the new site collection, the web ID's and all list ID's remain the same. So we now have (about 100) a lot of duplicate GUIDs.

Can someone advise if there is a way to tidy this up, or if it is an issue having the duplicate GUIDS.

I know we could generate new guids by doing a Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb, but as a lot of the sites are now in use is this going to break stuff??

I appreciate any advice or ideas on this.

Thanks

I am in the process of migrating a very simple sharepoint installation from 2010 to 2013.

I only had a single content database on the old server: WSS_Content. I backed this up and have restored it on the new server.

The database only hosted two site collections: "/" and "/my".

On the new server I had gone through the farm configuration wizard, but skipped the part where I create site collections.

When I restored the database with SQL Server management Studio I renamed it WSS_Content_migrated, as there already was a WSS_Content database.

I upgraded the migrated database like this:

Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name WSS_Content_Migrated -DatabaseServer INTRANET2 -WebApplicationhttp://intranet2/

This failed and the error log file had these two errors:

Database [WSS_Content_Migrated] contains a site (Id = [5a0bb06f-a11c-433e-aea4-22d644b5355c], Url = [/my]) that is not found in the site map. Consider detach and reattach the database.

Database [WSS_Content_Migrated] contains a site (Id = [5a0bb06f-a11c-433e-aea4-22d644b5355c], Url = [/my]) whose url is already used by a different site, in database (Id = [7aad6e09-9c31-4da7-95cc-d9f8e8f1654e], name = [WSS_Content]), in the same web application. Consider deleting one of the sites which have conflicting urls.

In addition, there were also these warnings (not necessarily in this order):

The orphaned sites could cause upgrade failures. Try detach and reattach the database which contains the orphaned sites. Restart upgrade if necessary.

The orphaned sites could cause upgrade failures. Try detach and reattach the database which contains the orphaned sites. Restart upgrade if necessary.

File [Features\ReportServer\ReportViewer.dwp] is referenced [2] times in the database [WSS_Content_Migrated], but is not installed on the current farm. Please install any feature/solution which contains this file.

One or more setup files are referenced in the database [WSS_Content_Migrated], but are not installed on the current farm. Please install any feature or solution which contains these files.

The [SharePoint - 80] 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.

My question is this: Do I need to be concerned?

As far is I can tell, everything is good. We were not using My Sites on the old server, so I did not actually need that migrated and I can see that there are working My Sites in the new server. I can also see the migrated site working onhttp://Intranet2.

The Site Collections list for the main web application says that "/" uses the WSS_Content_migrated and that "/my" and "/my/personal/sharepoint" use WSS_Content

Any thought?

Regarding the ReportViewer warning: SQL Server Reporting Services was installed on the old server, but we were not using that, so I have not installed it on the new server.

Regarding the claims / windows classic warning: I will work on this next. I can log into the main site collection as the service account, but not as anyone else. I plan to use these instructions to fix it:https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/gg251985.aspx

Hello

I <g class="gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm Grammar multiReplace" data-gr-id="5" id="5">have</g> a Document Library in one of my subsites. My task is to show one of the views of this document library in a <g class="gr_ gr_27 gr-alert gr_spell ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" data-gr-id="27" id="27">webpart</g> in one of the Pages which belong to the Parent Site. Can anyone please help me how to accomplish this task

Thanks in advance!

Hi

We do have SharePoint 2013 installed on windows server 2012 R2 with Power pivot and excel service application.

whenever i start excel service application in CA, it started throwing continuous error which i got from event viewer as below,

"The report server cannot create the Report Requests Active performance counter. (Application: SSRS Service Application, CorrelationId: 50e5409d-3808-10c6-1b1f-4ec7364b5eb5)"

Event id: 1113         Task Catogory: logging

earlier it was working fine including excel service application and power pivot too.

can someone help me out here?

Thanks,

Deepak

Hi,

Can I use Office Web Apps Server without Sharepoint Server? I can view documents with Office Web Apps through setting OpenFromUrlEnabled to true. But this way I can't edit or save them.

Greetings,

George

I have been trying to install powerpivot for SharePoint Feature in our SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Farm. I installed SQl for powerpivot instance called "POWERPIVOT" ssas instance in SharePoint App Server. It completed no issues. Then i started PowerPivot Config Window for SharePoint 2013, thats where i get the error:

"Register Powerpivot System Service on Local Server"

"Cannot create the service instance because the parent Service does not exist."

"Prerequisite check for execution failed. Farm is not in a valid state."

Then i checked my server this is what i found:

I have Powerpivot Services Working Properly, it is in running state.

Service Account for the instance is not local or Network Account it is FQDN Account.

So in this case what is the config wizard talking about? MSFT please show me some insight?

I then individually ran the script "

New-PowerPivotSystemServiceInstance -Provision:$true

This is what i got:

I dont get it, please help?

Hi All - I created a single lookup column on list A to list B which contains 50,000 items.  When I try to create a new item in list A the page errors out with a very generic/useless error message.  I've already increased the List View Threshold to 75,000.  Any reason why this is happening or how I can allow the lookup column to display this many items.  I understand the performance risks.

Hello,

i have the following problem.

I want to activate "Document IDs" for some site collections. These site collection have additional list content types like "Link to a document". This content type works as designed till i activate "document ids".

After that the template under advanced settings of this document type is deleted. Normally there should be "newlink.aspx". All other template entries (if set) are also deleted.

I'm on Sharepoint 2013 SP1. Have managed content types. To successfully enable document ids i have to change the content type "document". I have to disable the read only flag.

I could not find anyone else having this issue. Can anyone help me with this?

Best regards

Stephan

Regards Stephan

OneDrive / Sharepoint Blog

We are planning to upgrade from Sharepoint 2010 to 2013.  We have 2 web applications in our farm and the max number of users (accounts) would be about 500.  But, the number of users using the sites at the same time would be much smaller.

Would the following VMs be enough:

Web server:

Processor: 64 bit 4 cores

RAM: 16GB

System Drive: 120GB

Additional D drive (must be enough to do full farm backup)

Office Web Apps server
Processor: 64 bit 4 cores

RAM: 24GB

System Drive: 120GB

Database server

Processor: 64 bit 8 cores

RAM: 24GB

System drive: 120GB

Additional D drive: will make it big enough to store all the databases plus space for backups

Would I need a separate VM for Search?  I've noticed that Search is very CPU and RAM intensive in 2013.  Our users do not perform many searches however I still noticed that on our Sharepoint 2013 test server the Search related processes use up a lot of resources.

thanks,

Hello all,

I have a business requirement where I have to setup Kerberos for a WebApplication that will contain site collections with a lot of Excel Services Reports. My client requires that all site collections will have a custom sign in form ( FBA ), because he does not want to use the basic ugly windows popup !

How can I achieve this ? How to configure an FBA WebApp along with Kerberos ?

Kerberos requires Windows authentication, I've been looking for quite some time now, with no luck :(

I've already managed to easily configure FBA on a WebApp, and Kerberos on another, but never for both on the same WebApp, so I'm not looking for links with a step-by-step config tutorial for each one of my requirements.

Any help is much appreciated !

JH

Hello Everyone,

As we know Picture Libraries comes with the capability to show a folder icon upon create a new folder inside of the Picture Library, what i want to do is show one of the images uploaded into the Picture library instead the icon folder.. and it should come dynamically

For Example

I have create a folder in picture library name as College now i am uploading few picture into it now on my page any one picture from the folder should be displayed as a folder icon  and so on suppose next time i am crating another folder named as Food i am uploading few picture into it so on a page it should display one picture from that folder as a folder icon and on clicking that icon it should re-direct to that particular folder

Please help me on this 

Thankyou

hi,

i am having some issue with the Search Service application, when i am crawling the web applications getting the same error for all. saying "The URL of the item could not be resolved. The repository might be unavailable, or the crawler proxy settings are not configured. To configure the crawler proxy settings, use Search Administration page." None of the web application is working. what could be the issue?

Search Topology are using:

Hello,

Based on my other post I'm trying to export users that has a value in a custom user property (a multivalue string) I have created. The script does create a .csv file which holds data for all my users however I have two things to fix:

1. The "customMultiValueField" only has the first value exported. How do I export all values?

2. I do not want to export the users where the "customMultiValueField" value is null

Thanks for your time

Here is the code:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$siteUrl = "http://blabla"
$outputFile = "C:\upaexport.csv"

$serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext -Site $siteUrl
$profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext);
$profiles = $profileManager.GetEnumerator()

$collection = @()
foreach ($profile in $profiles) {

   $profileData = "" |
   select "AccountName", "PreferredName", "customMultiValueField"

   $profileData.AccountName = $profile["AccountName"]
   $profileData.PreferredName = $profile["PreferredName"]
   $profileData.customMultiValueField = $profile["customMultiValueField"]

   $collection += $profileData
}


$collection | Export-Csv $outputFile -NoTypeInformation

Hi there,

So my situation is I have a Content DB that is over 100GB in SP 2010.  My plan is to "split" it when I move the Site Collection to SP 2013.  So what I have done so far is:-

1. Backup from SP 2010 environment;
2. Restore to SP 2013 (SQL 2012) environment;
3. Mount and upgrade Content DB to original URL - http://intranet/sites/Ops;
4. Tests okay in browser etc in SP 2013 version
5. Backup to a .bak file;
6. Delete content from the mounted DB that is no longer needed
7. Run the following command to restore to new URL and new Content DB

Restore-SPSite http://intranet/sites/NewURL -Path z:\SPS_Operations_7Apr1627.bak -ContentDatabase SPS_NewContenDB

Unfortunately, I get the below errors in the log file

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	ki7k	High	Could not deserialize site from z:\SPS_Operations_27Apr1627.bak . System.ArgumentException: Version string portion was too short or too long.     at System.Version.TryParseVersion(String version, VersionResult& result)     at System.Version.Parse(String input)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.Restore(String filename, Boolean isADMode, Boolean& readOnlyMode, Boolean& hadWriteLock)	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	8e11	High	Deleting the site at http://intranet/sites/NewURL and not deleting AD accounts.	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	88z7	Medium	SPRequest: Logging result 0xbd649260 from reInit	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	8e2s	Medium	Unknown SPRequest error occurred. More information: 0x80070003	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	72k4	Medium	<nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	8kh7	High	<nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	aix9j	High	SPRequest.GetSiteFlags: UserPrincipalName=i:0).w|s-1-5-21-112552688-835663071-165283079-57096, AppPrincipalName= ,bstrUrl=http://intranet/sites/NewURL	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	General	ai1wu	Medium	System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>, StackTrace:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.Delete(SPSiteDeleteFlags flags)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.Restore(String filename, Boolean isADMode, Boolean& readOnlyMode, Boolean& hadWriteLock)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteCollection.Restore(String strSiteUrl, String strFilename, Boolean bOverwrite, Boolean bGradualDelete, Boolean hostHeaderAsSiteName, Boolean preserveSiteId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite.InternalProcessRecord()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdlet.ProcessRecord()     at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()     at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoExecute()     at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)     at System.Management.Automation.PipelineOps.InvokePipeline(Object input, Boolean ignoreInput, CommandParameterInternal[][] pipeElements, CommandBaseAst[] pipeElementAsts, CommandRedirection[][] commandRedirections, FunctionContext funcContext)     at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ActionCallInstruction`6.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)     at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)     at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)     at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)     at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.LightLambda.RunVoid1[T0](T0 arg0)     at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.RunClause(Action`1 clause, Object dollarUnderbar, Object inputToProcess)     at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoComplete()     at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.DoCompleteCore(CommandProcessorBase commandRequestingUpstreamCommandsToStop)     at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)     at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeHelper()     at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeThreadProc()     at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.PipelineThread.WorkerProc()     at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)     at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)     at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)     at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	PowerShell	6tf2	High	System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetSiteFlags(String bstrUrl)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetSiteFlags(String bstrUrl)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.Delete(SPSiteDeleteFlags flags)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.Restore(String filename, Boolean isADMode, Boolean& readOnlyMode, Boolean& hadWriteLock)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteCollection.Restore(String strSiteUrl, String strFilename, Boolean bOverwrite, Boolean bGradualDelete, Boolean hostHeaderAsSiteName, Boolean preserveSiteId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite.InternalProcessRecord()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdlet.ProcessRecord()	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

04/28/2015 15:41:34.80	PowerShell.exe (0x474C)	0x25DC	SharePoint Foundation	PowerShell	91ux	High	Error Category: InvalidData    Target Object  Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite  Details  NULL  RecommendedAction NULL	ccf46a6a-0ee0-4ce1-b4cb-8113bc011943

I have run the config wizard and it finished successfully.  The DB's are all the same version, servers are not in need of an upgrade. 

Any ideas?

Hello

I am trying to setup my Welcome Page for our Sharepoint 2013 Intranet site.  I am trying to find the "welcome page with web part zones" page layout but it is missing.  Can anyone help me figure out why?  Thanks.

Hello

I have a Document Library in one of the subsites, which is using custom Plan Document Set content types. <g class="gr_ gr_53 gr-alert gr_spell undefined ContextualSpelling ins-del" data-gr-id="53" id="53">When ever</g> a new Plan is added to the Document Library it creates a specific set of Documents in the Document set created. There is a document 'A' called in the Document set which has a Status column. When the Status is changed to "Final" That particular document has to be copied to an another Document Library which is in the Parent site.

Can <g class="gr_ gr_398 gr-alert gr_spell undefined ContextualSpelling ins-del" data-gr-id="398" id="398">any one</g> Please Post your ideas of how to accomplish this task

Thanks in Advance! 

What minimal permissions should I set to user to make him able to query list via JS-REST requests?

The situation:

User is in a group that does not have access to entire subsite but have read right to a list (assets library)

When I check permissions of this group I see that it has Read level to list and restricted access to the site.

if user get item (photo image) via direct link to it (http://portal/media/gallery/photo/Ar.JPG) - it can see and download this image.

But if user make REST query to this library Chrome asks to enter credentials - and after several prompts - access denied response XML shows:

Hi All

I'm trying to create a search service application with index location as D:\spindex. But it's giving access denied error. But i have given full control to the drive and folder with the service account and wpg groups.

errror :

Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (d090a618-c4a4-49f3-8956-e1fa4379700e).

Reason: Access to the path 'D:\SP_Index' is denied.

Technical Support Details:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'D:\SP_Index' is denied.

   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()

   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)

Shared services event ID : 6482

can any one help me with troubleshooting steps.

Subhash

Hi all,

I have a lot of questions with respect to the topic.

My company has separate PROD and TEST environments (both has 2 APP, 2 WFE, 2 DB and 1 SSRS servers).

The last update was in July 2014 and it was SP 2013 SP1. The environments are not updated since. Now my questions are below:

1. Do I need another separate TEST environment for testing the security updates?

2. If Yes to above question, can you briefly describe why I need a separate Environment? 

3. If no to first question, how do I go about testing the security updates on (which?) TEST server (please give me short description on what are the steps), provided I already found out what updates I want to install)?

4. Also, how to know which updates are important from Microsoft site (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789211(v=office.14).aspx). I hope this is the correct site to get the updates from. Correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,

Suresh.