I am attempting to secure a sub folder within a folder. When I do that, the user I am limiting access to the sub folder is not able to see the parent folder in the document library, so they can't get to the sub folder. Now I can give them a URL with me at the parent folder and just copy my URL to the user and they can then see the sub folder. Just seems odd that out of the box web part for document libraries isn't able to view the parent folder so the user can see the sub folder. I will try and describe that below.

What I am trying to accomplish, is this possible?"User 1", should only see "Sub Folder 1" under "Folder 1" and all files under "Sub Folder 1", nothing else (except the folder name from the parent"Folder 1", no file contents in "Folder 1" should be visible). "Sub Folder 2" shouldn't be visible to this user either.

*Example below shows library, folders, and items (files) and what was done to them, the amount of dashes ("-") is depicting the level so "Folder 1" and "Folder 2" are a the root of the library at 1 "-".

Library 1 (Read permission given to "User 1" on the library)

-Folder 1 (stopped inheritance, removed "User 1")

--File 1 (inherits from parent)

--File 2 (inherits from parent)

---Sub folder 1 (stopped inheritance, added "User 1" as read only)

----Sub File 1 (inherits from parent)

---Sub Folder 2 (stopped inheritance, removed "User 1")

-Folder 2 (stopped inheritance, removed "User 1")

Hi,

I am installing SP dev environment. and after successfully deployment will go to install Prod.

2 SQL Node, single Nic, windows fail over cluster, and sql always on.

1 SP application server.

1 SP WFE server.

Question is.

Windows fail-over cluster do we need Share virtual name/IP?

SQL installation do i need standalone on both sql servers or do i need to install sql failover option?

If i choose sql standalone installation and configured always on and add 2nd sql node and test DB. In sql always on listener i choose DNS name and IP. is that correct?

I install first SharePoint vm, question is when i run configuration wizard which DB server i enter? sql node1 or sql node2 or SQL always on Listener name? or availability group name? please help me which option i choose.

and do i need to add manually sharepoint config and other web app database in always on group?

Regards,

Hi,

I have a problem on managed properties.  There was no enough space issue on my Search Server, then after it I don't why the new created managed properties are not working ( I set them retrievable, added the crawled properties mapping and did full crawl) . I cannot get this managed property in select properties on search api.

Is there anyone has the similar issue?

I recently cleared the cache on all 3 servers in my farm and the Health Analyzer (HA) showed " One or More Servers is not responding" for both the APP and WFE server. This happened once before where the Profile Synch config file was locked as a .tmp file. I paused the synch service, timer and administration service and removed the files, did an IIS reset and unpaused stuff. The cache rebuilt successfully. Problem solved right? Nope.

Now instead of the APP and WFE both not responding the HA reported only the WFE was not responding. I ran the config wizard and hit reanalyze on the HA rule. Still came up as not responding.

Next I removed and reattached the WFE to the farm using the config wizard. This all went successfully but the rule persisted after reanalyzing.

In the Manage Services on Server page in CA for the WFE I change the view from 'Configurable' to 'All' and there is no entry under Status and Action for 'Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Administration' and 'Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Timer' but this is the same on all servers in the farm so perhaps this is normal? 

I ran  Initialize-SPResourceSecurity on the WFE, reanalyzed but the HA still reports this issue.

The following entries are in the ULS Logs:

The following error occured while trying to initialize the timer: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   
 at System.Object.GetType()   
 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerStore.GetLocalProvisionedServices(Boolean cacheOnlineInstances)   
 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerStore.InitializeTimer(Int64& cacheVersion, Object& jobDefinitions, Int32& timerMode, Guid& serverId, Boolean& isServerBusy)   
 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPNativeConfigurationProvider.InitializeTimer(Int64& cacheVersion, Object& jobDefinitions, Int32& timerMode, Guid& serverId, Boolean& isServerBusy)

The timer service could not initialize its configuration, please check the configuration database.  Will retry later.

Exiting the process because the timer could not be initialized after multiple attempts.

The timer service is stopping

Now terminating ULS (OWSTIMER.EXE, onetnative.dll)

When checking the services.msc the timer service is in fact running

Any ideas on what to try next?

Love them all...regardless. - Buddha

Hi,

When I'm trying to open the Office365 SharePoint site (" https://domain.sharepoint.com") in SPD2013, giving the error "You do not have permission to open this website in Sharepoint Designer". I can open (" http://domain-my.sharepoint.com") in Sharepoint Designer 2013. I freshly installed SPD2013. Please help me on this.

Thank You

MOHAMMED SABEER

Dear All,

   I would like to know what permissions are required for AppPool user for SharePoint 2013. I want to change the account from FARM Admin to other windows user that are registered in SharePoint environment.

Regards, Syed Faizan ur Rehman, CBPM®,PRINCE2®, MCTS

Hi

I have a strange issue after migration, there are some List Search I used for SharePoint Designer to display the result. It looks like the page doesn't migrated correctly as a result it shows some special chars, images and logos etc. as per attachment. hOW do I do this fix now? Please advise.

Hi

I have a web application that contain only one site collection.size of this site collection is more than 100 gigabyte. Now in Central Administration I see this warning:

The following content databases have grown larger than 100 GB. Large content databases can be difficult to backup and restore. They are also more likely to cause application hangs when operations that affect entire databases are performed. DBName on DBServer.

Remedy

Prevent new sites from being added to these databases by clicking the repair button or by going tohttp://itc-spap:8086/_admin/cntdbadm.aspx. Then, move some site collections to smaller databases. For more information about this rule, see "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=142693".

In above link describe how I can move site collection between content databases, I want to know how I can move or split one site collection in two or more content databases.

How I can achieve this?

Hi,

We have two domains; Domain A and Domain B. The SharePoint 2013 server is located in Domain A and users in that domain are currently using the intranet. We would like for users in Domain B to be able to use the SharePoint as well.

Question: How can we configure SharePoint so Domain B user profiles and authentication can access SharePoint?

What are the requirements from client side to do this configuration?

Please provide any link with step by step approach.

Thanks 

Poovi

I have to enable audit log for all available options for my site collection, since Client needs all available options.

But, I have no formula / best practice to plan content DB size. I mean, not sure how much storage in DB is required for audit

currently the approach is 200 GB single Content DB per site collection. Expected size of the content to be filled is 120-160 GB. It may grow going forward.

end users are 2000+, intranet site for BPO repository, so lot many hits / views will be there.

What is the best approach to maintain Audit log. ? 

- GEM

I've been following the steps in the following TechNet article in a Lab Environment to see how it all works:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh305235.aspx#ExportCert

I've managed to get everything setup and working but was getting the following error when logging in via ADFS:

[SecurityTokenException: ID4014: A SecurityTokenHandler is not registered to read security token ('EncryptedData', 'http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#').]
   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.TokenReceiver.ReadToken(String tokenXml, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas readerQuotas) +522
   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.WSFederationAuthenticationModule.SignInWithResponseMessage(HttpRequest request) +439
   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.WSFederationAuthenticationModule.OnAuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs args) +539
   Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPFederationAuthenticationModule.OnAuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs eventArgs) +207
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +176
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +187

I found a few articles that suggested it was a problem with the SharePoint Server not being able to decrypt the Token from ADFS for some reason. I was able to get the system working by removing the Token Signing Certificate from the ADFS server but am not sure why it wasn't working with it in place?

I had the Token Signing certificate "installed" on the SharePoint server correctly via the New-SPTrustedRootAuthority command shown in the article above. I also checked that it has the correct Thumbprint, etc.

Anyone got any thoughts as to why it won't work?

Cheers for now

Russell

Hi-

I have sharepoint 2013 On-premise infrastructure with June 2016 CU installed .. " What's Happening" webpart with no customizations shows only members count upto 20. When number of joiners exceeds more than 20, webpart always show 20..

I checked on different sites in the web application issue remains the same ..

Can you please help me with information , Is this know issue with the product ? Is this going to resolve with any patch ?

Many thanks for your help in advance ..

Regards , Riaz.

Dear,

I have developed a IT inventory Work flow but i want to update the stock from 2nd list which i uploaded from Import spread sheet.

Now they are 2 different List showing in the panel, Now when ever i issue any Item from the main form the stock should reduce from the second sheet which i uploaded. Kindly help me out to short out this issue

Hi

I cant find information about this issue anywhere, so I shall try my luck here:-)

Using server 2012R2 with Powershell 5 and Desired State Configuration.

I have created a DSC module with dscresources (class 5) for configuring SharePoint. Meaning additional configurations in addition to the SharePointDSC module in PowerShell Gallery and github repository.

When running SharePoint cmdlets in powershell it is neccessary to add the SharePoint snapin:

 if ((Get-PSSnapin -Registered -Name 'microsoft.sharepoint.powershell') -ne $null)
        {
            try
            {
                Add-PSSnapin 'microsoft.sharepoint.powershell'
                Write-Debug 'Added microsoft.sharepoint.powershell snapin'
            }
            catch
                {
                    throw 'There was a problem loading snapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell.'
                }
        }
        else
        {
            throw 'microsoft.sharepoint.powershell snapin is not installed on this system!'
        }

However, when running my mof (Managed Object Format) file with verbose I get the message:

PowerShell DSC resource SkaDscResourceSharePoint  failed to execute Test functionality with error message: There was a problem loading snapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell.+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], CimException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ProviderOperationExecutionFailure+ PSComputerName        : localhost

I have tried just adding the snapin like this

add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell

But that gives me the error :

An item with the same key has already been added

Any hints and tips are welcome!

brgs

Bjørn

Hi! I have been managing our SharePoint site for just a couple weeks now and all of the sudden on a single page, the Anonymous Users group appeared in the permissions list. This site has unique permissions and I do not see the Anonymous User group on the parent site. My ribbon does not have an Anonymous Users Access button (as seen below). I recently added some external users to our site and am worried this caused this Anonymous Users access. 

1. With this Anonymous User Group and Permission Levels set at Entire Website, can anyone with the URL view this site?! This particular part of the site should only be INTERNAL with the exception to the four people I allowed external access. 

2. How do I remove the anonymous user? I have looked at my Site Collection Features and the Limited-access user permission lockdown mode IS ACTIVE. Also, there is a lot of content on the site and resetting the site is not really a viable option. 



Thank you for any feedback. It is greatly appreciated! 

Hello fellow SharePoint community!

Anyone installed any recent Cumulative updates in your on-premise SharePoint 2013 farm?

We've a need to install at least July 2016 CU for a 3rd party tool (K2). While I was doing some research, I noticed there are few reported issues with July  (top navigation issue) and August  (MMS issue - comment from Jake J.) 2016 CUs. I really don't want to go the very latest CU...knowing how badly some of the updates can mess up the functionalities. We do run some 3rd party tools and custom solutions on top of SharePoint - so it's not always possible to test every scenarios. 

Appreciate anyone sharing your experience with any patches from July - Nov 2016 CUs!

UPDATE: 1. Seeing Alex reported an issue (with Search Results page) with Nov 2016 CU.  

               2. AnisBO reported an issue with Oct CU when you have Hybrid Search configured. 

Many thanks in advanced!

BlueSky2010
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I tried to add new "SQL Server Reporting Services service Application", but failed and SP2013 show The file '/_admin/Reportserver/reportserviceappsetting.aspx' does not exist. does anybody knows how to fix it ?

Thanks

James Liang

In the user profile (SharePoint 2013) I applied an exclusion filter on ‘physicalDeliveryOfficeName’ to filter out records that contains ‘Start Date’ however it is not working as expected as it brings back records that contains ‘Start Date’ string. I tested the same filter in a SharePoint 2010 environment and it works fine. Are there any issues with filtering in 2013?

Taking SharePoint Solution Deployer, my opensource PowerShell deployment script, to the next level,Bill Simser got me the idea of making the deployment even more smooth on farms with multiple WFEs and load balancer in order to achieve a no-downtime deployment

The basic idea is to deploy the solutions on each WFEs one-by-one by
1. Taking one WFE offline
2. Installing the solution with the -local switch

//Solution deployment
Install-SPSolution -Identity <solutionname>.wsp –GACDeployment –CASPolicies –Local
// Solution upgrade
Update-SPSolution -Identity <solutionname>.wsp -LiteralPath LocalPathOfTheSolution.wsp -GacDeployment -Local

3. Run post-deployment actions on the WFE (ie. restart services, recycle apppools or IIS reset, warmup server), which my script already does for each server
4. Take WFE online again
5. Repeat step 1-4 for all other WFEs

I am struggling with three things here:

1. The whole deployment process could be quite risky when something goes wrong in between. And in order to roll back I would require the original solution if it was already deployed before (which I can back up of course before I replace it)

Anything which involves changing the content dbs should of course be done after the solutions is deployed to the whole farm, so this should not hurt in this case.

Anyway MSDN says that the "DeployLocal" method (which I assume is the same as the -local switch in PS ) should be only used for troubleshooting purposes.

So it would be great to hear about anyones experiences with it

2. As there can be different types of load balancers (hardware, software) which might not be configurable through my script I assume that taking out the WFE from the the load balancer may not always be possible.

So I thought about just taking the server offline.

I haven't found an option yet to take only one server in the farm offline (without removing it from the farm of course), so maybe I miss something. Any ideas?

3. Before taking a single WFE offline, I would like to assure that this server does not have any open sessions, operations of users ongoing. Unfortunately I found only the possibility to quiesce the whole farm, but not a single server. Am I missing something?

Appreciate any ideas which might point me in the direction to solve the overall goal!

SharePoint Architect, Speaker, MCP, MCPD, MCITP, MCSA, MCTS, Scrum Master/Product Owner
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HI

i created new search service application in sharepoint 2013 farm and search service not working fine, in uls logs i found below errors

SearchApi.cs throws exception:The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component 'f0c9f633-9b91-476d-bd57-7eb8cd70e21a' in search application 'Search_Service_test' is in a good state and try again.

GetProperty failed with exception 'System.InvalidOperationException: The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component '' in search application 'Search_Service_test' is in a good state and try again.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi..ctor(SearchServiceApplication application)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceApplication.get_SearchApi()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.RebalancerUtil.GetPropertyWriteDefaultIfNotFound(SearchServiceApplication ssa, String propertyName, Int32 defaultValue)'

$si = Get-SPServiceInstance 99384b9b-8517-44c5-a880-64323ccdcd56

PS C:\Files> $si

adil