SharePoint 2013: Built-in accounts are used as application pool or service...
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View ArticleSharePoint 2013: My Site content is not being crawled
ProblemYou have deployed a new Search Service Application and launched a full crawl of all content among all sites, including your farm My Site instance. On reviewing the crawl log, you see the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Unable to change topology when Generation controller is not...
ProblemYou are attempting to modify the existing farm search topology by adding a second WFE and adding index and query components to this second WFE. Within your SharePoint Management PowerShell...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Critical Event 6398: The Execute method of job definition...
ProblemYou review the Application event log on one of your SharePoint Server 2013 farm web front end (WFE) servers and find the following critical event occuring every five minutes:Log Name:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception
ProblemYou have a SharePoint Server 2013 farm, with one application and two web front end (WFE) servers in a traditional topology. The farm servers are VMs hosted on Hyper-V. Farm servers have both...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Product Configuration Wizard stuck on task 9 of 10
ProblemYou have installed SP1 or some other cumulative update on all your farm servers without issue. You then run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard on each machine. It completes without...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: FatalError: Object Search Service failed in event OnBackup
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View ArticleSharePoint 2013: How to deploy a search service application using PowerShell
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View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Event 8193: A failure was reported when trying to invoke a...
ProblemYou recently rebuilt your SharePoint 2013 farm's Managed Metadata service application, and it runs without issue. A day later, you check the SharePoint application server application event log,...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012: SQLServer Error: 15404 Could not obtain information about...
ProblemIn SQL Server 2012, you are configuring scheduled backup maintenance plans for your SharePoint 2013 farm databases. When you attempt to execute a maintenance plan, you experience the following...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: You do not have an email address
ProblemYou recently deployed User Profile Service application to your 2013 farm. The service runs without issue. User information appears in their My Sites. However, when they attempt to configure...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Processing this item failed because of an unknown error when...
ProblemYou perform a crawl, and then, checking the crawl log, you see an overwhelming number of errors like the following:Processing this item failed because of an unknown error when trying to parse...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Add a Link to My Site Quick Launch
TipTo add a new link to your users My Site quick launch, follow these steps:Connect to the root site of the My Site web application as the SharePoint setup administrator account (eg, spAdmin).Go:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException_Logging......
ProblemYou've opened a SharePoint 2013 Management Shell as the farm setup user administrator account (eg spAdmin). You are attempting to add, remove or get SPProfileLeader data. You can get an...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: People search relevance is not optimized when the Active...
ProblemYou find the following entry in the SharePoint 2013 Central Administration, Review problems and solutions, All Reports listing:li.L0, li.L1, li.L2, li.L3, li.L5, li.L6, li.L7, li.L8 {...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Insufficient SQL database permissions for user
ProblemYou see the following critical error in a SharePoint Server 2013 farm server hosting a Search service query processing component, occuring at about 13-hour intervals:Log Name: ApplicationSource:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Deployment: How to Configure Cache
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View ArticleSharePoint 2013: App Management Shared Service Proxy is not installed
ProblemUsers report the following error message when trying to publish their 2013 workflows:Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: The option for the SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform is not...
ProblemI administer a SharePoint 2013 farm. I had a user who wished to create a workflow using the new SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform. When the user connected to a website on the farm, using...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Moving Lists using the Site Content and Structure Tool
IntroductionThe Site Content and Structure tool presents a tree navigational structure to all farm objects. It's made available, after activating the Publishing feature. Using this tool, the...
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