Blank Newsfeed after WFE Server rebooted

March 11, 2013, 2:48 am

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Hello,

I just notice that the newsfeed on “My Site” was empty after the SharePoint WFE restarted. After I examined event viewer log, I found out that the account used for user profile’s application pool cannot access the content database other that “My Site” content database. Soon after I added SPDataAccess *which I never revoked* to the entire content database, “My Site” began showing the newsfeed from others site again even though not all of them.

So, I there any precaution I need to take when I want to restart the WFE Server or the DB Server? Is the Account for User Profile Application Pool supposed to have SPDataAccess for all others content database or not?

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New-SPWebApplication doesn't deploy to WFE's sharepoint 2013

March 19, 2013, 9:12 am

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I have a sharepoint 2013 farm setup and for the most part working the way it should. However, I have to spend exteme amounts of time and patience every time I add a new web application, extend an existing one, delete a web application, or have to deploy development code that requires communication to all the IIS configurations on each WFE. Sometime it takes upto 12 hours or longer to finish and 75% of the time it doesn't propagate to the two WFE's at all. In those cases I have to run the sharepoint configuration wizard and remove them from the farm and then readd them in order to be sure that all the IIS site information is setup on the WFEs. I've tried using the Central Admin webpage and the powershell scripts with the same outcome. My setup is very simple and powerful. I have a layer 7 loadbalancer.org appliance shaping traffic between two WFEs. These two are vmware virtual WFE's running 4 cores each with 24GB of RAM and 10Gbps network, and another virtual server running apps such as search and CA with the same hardware config. All of these running windows server 2012 and Sharepoint 2013. My SQL server is a physical server with 2 processors and 65GB of RAM running sql server 2008 R2 and windows server 2008 R2 with 8Gbps Network. All are in the same subnet on the same switch. I've followed many guides to fix any loopback problems and added setting in the hosts file to point each host to their local IP address. I've also disabled all IPv6 on each network cards. Everything is working quickly except for administrative functions in the Central Admin Web Application Management section. Anytime I run the "New" or "extend" buttons it will start to display the pop-up configuration window and hang for a while. Sometime it will show up and sometimes I will have to close and click the button again. After I get a successful pop-up window I enter the configuration for the new site and click"OK" and then nothing. I can click OK again and again and it doesn't look like anything is happening. After some time it will sometime say successful but most of the time gives a "Page cannot be displayed message" if it changes at all. If I cancel or close the window and wait I will sometimes get a successful creation sometimes nothing at all. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. The only error I got the last time I tried to create a new webapp was...

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob (ID 31d0dfd4-d9f4-46d8-89bf-622b20399831) threw an exception. More information is included below.

System.TimeoutException

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"Add Documents " link is not visible in sharepoint 2013 document library webpart

March 4, 2013, 3:42 am

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In Sharepoint 2010 when we are adding Document-library webpart an "Add Document" Link was visible at the bottom which will help Users to add more documents.

But when we are adding Document-library webpart in Sharepoint 2013, this link is not visible.

How can we add this link at the bottom of the document-library-webpart.

S H A J A N

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Configuring ADFS in SharePoint 2013

March 13, 2013, 11:03 pm

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I've set-up SharePoint 2013 on cloud i.e. on Windows Azure VM. This set-up has 2 servers - one has SharePoint installed while the other has SQL Server installed in it. Now, I'm trying to set-up Claims based authentication in the same environment, where users internal to my organization will be authenticated thru Windows Authentication and the external users thru STS SAML token. For this, I'll have to install and configure ADFS which would to interact with AD (set-up on premise in my company's corporate network) for Authentication and SSO.

On which server would I need to install and configure ADFS?

Thanks Arut

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SharePoint 2013 Tools and Utilities

March 19, 2013, 7:56 am

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Hi all, I am a SharePoint admin and have been for years, but I have always relied on the OOB tools to get the job done. These days my farms are too much to handle OOB, and I was wondering what everyone is using for management, security, backups, and health?

Kristopher C. Roy

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SSL certificate sharepoint 2013 server IIS.

March 20, 2013, 2:23 am

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I am having an issue getting Office web apps server to work with SharePoint 2013 when using selfsigned certificates.

If I Create and use a domain certificate created in IIS7, with commonname "site", and add this to my binding on the site with https, I an happily use the office webapps function on my site https://site, both editing and view.

Problem:

I cant get this to work when i create a selfsigned certificate in Powershell (by using server 2012), where i specify SAN names for the sites. The site themselves get the approved padlock icon, but i get error when trying to open or create office documents:

Anyone experienced this?

Must I use Domain Certificates only?

Im thinking that maybe my selfsigned certificate is missing some properties.

Bjorn

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Permissions using ADFS roles

March 7, 2013, 7:48 am

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We have setup Sharepoint 2013 to talk to a ADFS2 claims provider. This works fine and we can do permissions by adding a username into the relevant sharepoint group.

What I now want to do is to add an ADFS Role into the sharepoint group, so that we can do permissions via roles and not usernames. However i cannot find out how to do it!

In Sharepoint 2007 we just added Role#rolename instead of the username, its probably something simple, but have yet to find out what! Can anyone help?

Thanks

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"Edit Links" in quick launch and top link bar missing on upgraded site collections

March 20, 2013, 3:43 am

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On site collections that have been upgraded via Database Attach from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 RTM, the "Edit Links" function in the quick launch and in the top link bar is missing. If I create a new site collection, the links are there and function without a problem.

The site collections are team sites and the publishing feature is not activated. Even when I am farm and site collection admin, the "Edit Links" function does not appear on the upgraded site collections, so I assume that it is not a rights problem. Furthermore, I am able to edit the links through the site settings.

Is there a way to activate the "Edit Links" function on upgraded site collections?

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Coexistence of 2013 Standard and Foundation on same AD

March 20, 2013, 4:02 am

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Is it posible to have two farms of SharePoint 2013, one foundation and other standard, on the same active directory?

I just installed it but when both are up, the foundation site is not working properly. If I shutdown the standard farm and reboot foundation farm, it Works correctly again.

Both farms uses the same SQLServer and I checked they're not sharing any database.

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SharePoint licensing

March 20, 2013, 4:09 am

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We are planning to setup SharePoint Enterprise 2013 environment for our 1000 users. Below is our plan, please advice and also provide how much would it cost for licensing.

2 Virtual machine Installed with SharePoint Enterprise 2013 and another SQL Server in a Virtual machine.

Do we need to procure 2 Device CAL or 1 is enough?

What should be the physical machine configuration to have this kind of setup?

Please provide the price details as well?

--Cheers

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SharePoint 2013 - User profile property

March 20, 2013, 4:42 am

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1) When "Edit User Profile" in Central Administration , a number of Out-of-the-box profile properties are marked with a blue asterix to indicate those properties have a "Policy setting" set to 'Required', meaning this property should contain a value.

It concerns the properties : Name , Work phone , Department , Title , Source Object Distinsuidhed Name , Office. ( Remark : all those properties are default imported from AD)

While 'Required' should enforce the property to contain a value, the property is found empty - as AD has that attribute blank! Also, editing a user profile in Central Admin accepts the property to be left empty. For testing the property "Office" was taken.

2) After changing the "Policy setting" of an non-imported property toggling it from"Optional" to "Required", editing a user profile DOES accept empty values for that property after doing a "Save and close". For testing the property "Office Location" was taken. In addition , this property - once changed to 'Required' - is not listed with the blue asterix.

Anyone who can demystify.

Thanks in advance

Kind regards

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Migrating lists from sharepoint 2010 to 2013

March 20, 2013, 5:42 am

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Is it possible to migrate lists and document libraries from Sharepoint 2010 to 2013 and still keep Versioning, Created by and Create date?

This isn't and update of the existing server.

I have two farms, one running sharepoint 2010 and one running sharepoint 2013.

Is it possible?

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what is opposite of "Register-SPWorkflowService"???

March 5, 2013, 1:50 pm

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I can't believe I have to ask this (because either it's not documented or doesn't exist)...

What is the PS command to remove/delete/unregister an SPWorkflowService entry?

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AppFabric won't install - tried various solutions

March 20, 2013, 8:09 am

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I'm trying to install the prerequisites for SharePoint 2013 (on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1)

Like many others, I'm having troubles installing SP 2013 because the AppFabric part of the prerequisites is not installing. Unlike others, there is really no error in the log. After it starts installing appfabric, it shows the finish window, with AppFabric: installation error, and reboots machine.

I have tried:

Altering and then removing the PSModulePath environment variable.

Downloading and running the AppFabric setup using the command window with the appropriate parameters (/i CacheClient,CachingService,CacheAdmin /gac). Also started up the prerequisite installer from the command line specifying the appfabric setup file.

AppFabric is not and was not installed prior to installation. (it is not available to uninstall). WIndows update is on, and I have applied all available updates.

Here are the relevant lines from the log:

2013-03-20 08:56:02 - Reading the following DWORD value/name...
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - DCC
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - from the following registry location...
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppFabric\V1.0\Features
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - Reading the following DWORD value/name...
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - DCS
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - from the following registry location...
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppFabric\V1.0\Features
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - Reading the following DWORD value/name...
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - DCA
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - from the following registry location...
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppFabric\V1.0\Features
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - Beginning download of Windows Server AppFabric
2013-03-20 08:56:02 - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235496
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Size of download of "Windows Server AppFabric" in bytes is "33646240"
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Download of "Windows Server AppFabric" completed successfully
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - configuring FTP/Windows Services for AppFabric
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Warning : Call to OpenService(...,SERVICE_START | SERVICE_QUERY_STATUS | SERVICE_STOP | SERVICE_PAUSE_CONTINUE) function to get handle to the service failed (0X424=1060)
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Warning : [In HRESULT format] (0X80070424=-2147023836)
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - FTP service is not installed.
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - The current status of the service is...
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - SERVICE_RUNNING
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Windows update service is already running
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Warning : Call to OpenService(...,SERVICE_START | SERVICE_QUERY_STATUS | SERVICE_STOP | SERVICE_PAUSE_CONTINUE) function to get handle to the service failed (0X424=1060)
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Warning : [In HRESULT format] (0X80070424=-2147023836)
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - AppFabric caching service is not installed.
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - All services have been configured successfully for AppFabric.
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - Installing Windows Server AppFabric
2013-03-20 08:56:06 - "C:\Users\p-justin.lee\AppData\Local\Temp\AppE040.tmp.exe" /i CacheClient,CachingService,CacheAdmin /gac
2013-03-20 08:56:18 - Install process returned (0X101A=4122)
2013-03-20 08:56:18 - [In HRESULT format] (0X8007101A=-2147020774)
2013-03-20 08:56:18 - All services have been configured successfully after AppFabric installation
2013-03-20 08:56:18 - Last return code (0X101A=4122)

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SharePoint 2013 - Issue with Apps

March 20, 2013, 5:02 pm

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Hi All,

I have just encountered a very frustrating issue;

As random as it could possibly happen, this morning all of our installed SharePoint Store apps have broken.

They still display correctly through their web\app parts, but the moment the header is clicked, we receive the following error;

Sorry, something went wrong

Accessing referenced file https://app-25d238edb9176b.**.com/_catalogs/masterpage/**MasterPage.master from https://app-25d238edb9176b.**.com/ImportantMessages/Pages/Default.aspx?SPHostUrl=https://intranet.**.com.au&SPLanguage=en-AU&SPClientTag=14&SPProductNumber=15.0.4420.1017&SPAppWebUrl=https://app-25d238edb9176b.**.com/ImportantMessages is not allowed because the reference is outside of the App Web.

Entries in the ULS Logs say much the same;

Application error when access /ImportantMessages/Pages/Default.aspx, Error=Accessing referenced file https://app-25d238edb9176b.**.com/_catalogs/masterpage/**MasterPage.master from https://app-25d238edb9176b.**.com/ImportantMessages/Pages/Default.aspx?SPHostUrl=https://intranet.**.com.au&SPLanguage=en-AU&SPClientTag=14&SPProductNumber=15.0.4420.1017&SPAppWebUrl=https://app-25d238edb9176b.**.com/ImportantMessages is not allowed because the reference is outside of the App Web.

I have done the following in an attempt to correct the issue;

Re-read through the steps on configuring the app domain
Reinstalled the Apps
Ran an IISReset

Any help would be much appreciated.

Pete

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Is it possible to lock a file without checking it out? I am wanting to lock files that users send in for version control purposes.

March 13, 2013, 8:41 am

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Is it possible to lock a submitted excel file without checking it out? I am wanting to lock files that users send in for version control purposes.

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Error: "Code blocks are not allowed in this file" after upgrade to 2013

February 27, 2013, 7:38 pm

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We have one custom Site Page with some server side script. The page used to work in 2010 but after upgrade to 2013, it's giving the error: "Code blocks are not allowed in this file". I've tried the following enteries in web.config file:

<PageParserPath VirtualPath="/sites/engineering/SitePages/DMS.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true"/>
<PageParserPath VirtualPath="/SitePages/DMS.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true"/>
<PageParserPath VirtualPath="/sites/engineering/*" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" IncludeSubFolders="true"/>

None of them worked. The actual url for the page is http://servername/sites/engineering/SitePages/DMS.aspx

i'm modifying the web.config at C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Run Dashboard Designer SharePoint 2013 from IE9 Settings

March 15, 2013, 7:08 am

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Dashboard Designer runs from Firefox but not IE9. I have been trying to adjust the settings, but can't find the correct setting. This is for IE9 and SharePoint 2013 Dashboard Designer. Does anyone know the settings? I reviewed another post for IE8, but I still can not find the correct IE9 settings.

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Provision of FileNet Multiple format Feature in SharePoint

March 20, 2013, 9:23 pm

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We are migrating FileNet documents to SharePoint 2013. However we come across FileNet feature where it allows to manage different format of document. So for e.g. one can upload document as word doc and it creates version 1.0. letter on same doc can be checked out and save as PDF , in this case FileNet create version 2.0 and save doc as PDF. So you have two file under different version. Also when you search it will provide latest version.

We need to manage above functionality in SharePoint 2013. It would be really appreciated if someone provide solution or approach to handle above problem.

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Unable deploy app - "... no available database servers".

March 19, 2013, 7:04 am

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Wanted to deploy, well known app from SharePoint 2013 App store to my SP 2013 Enterprise. App named Tool Tracker.

Everything went good (no errors in windows logs and no sharepoint health issues) to the moment where, after some time the label "We're adding your app" changed to (un)famous"Sorry, something went wrong with adding the app." In the same moment in Application windows log something like this landed: "Log Name: Application, Source: Access Services, Event ID: 1238, Level: Error, User: DomainName\Sp2013ServiceUser, Description: An application could not be provisioned because there are no available database servers.”

App Management Service and Secure Store Service started and seems to working well. What I have been missed?

Any help greatly appreciated.

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