CRL verification Failure –SharePoint
Couple of weeks back, I had a chance to work with one of the customer who reported multiple issues in his farm. These issues were followed by a farm wide outage and he ended up contacting Microsoft. I...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010: Issues with Service Application Proxy & Proxy Group...
At times we would see errors while accessing various Service applications. These types of issues manifest with various symptoms at different locations, here is an example of a few I have come...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007: SSP upgrade issue with SP3
The Office Server Search gatherer crawled documents in batches. It creates a batch ID each time it loads documents from the crawl queue into SQL, these BatchIDs are stored in MSSBatchHistory Table...
View ArticleMoss 2007/2010: Current Storage Used by a site collection does not match...
MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 keep a record of the total storage consumed by each Site collection; this is presented in Central Administration within the Site Collection Quotas and Locks page and also...
View ArticleGuidance for XslLink property with the XsltListViewWebPart
The XsltListViewWebPart as well as the DataFormWebPart are having the same base class BaseXsltDataWebPart and work quite similar. While for the DataFormWebPart it is OK and intended to use the Xsl and...
View ArticleProxy Configuration issues with UPA in SharePoint 2010 /2013
This post talks about various issues seen in User Profile Service application configuration due to Web Proxy configurations. As the User Profile Import using the FIM has not changed in SharePoint 2013...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010/2013: UPA Sync from Active Directory pulling accounts in...
ScenarioYou have a User profile Service application configured in SharePoint 2010 /2013 environment with Active Directory Sync connection configured for Importing profiles. Once Imported the User...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010: Search Service application - Old databases are not removed...
I was recently working on a SharePoint issue. The issue was that we were unable to rename the Property database or Crawl database in central admin site. Here is the scenario:We have provisioned a...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010: Search Service application - Old databases not removed when...
In my last blog , Part 1 I discussed the scenario where we had provisioned a Search Service application using PowerShell and how it causes issues while renaming the Search Property and Crawl...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010/2013: “Change Log “Timer Job is not cleaning up Expired...
In SharePoint every content database contains an EventCache table that is the “change log” for objects contained in the database. Each row in the table is depicting a change in an object. Columns in...
View ArticleHow to reduce the size of logging database by purging old data from it.
WSS logging database grows very fast and it may cause storage problem at times SharePoint server 2010.More on Logging Database?The Logging database stores the following data:-· ULS Logs from 14...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Site in Read only mode after an interrupted backup
I came across an interesting issue recently where a customer was backing up a site collection via SharePoint Management shell & the backup process was abnormally terminated. This resulted in the...
View ArticleUPA Sync Service Startup issues due to invalid Name of the server
Recently I had worked on couple of an issues where User Profile Synchronization service wasn’t getting started. The issue was specific to one server. Even if we create new UPA then also User Profile...
View ArticleAll you want to know about People Picker in SharePoint ( Functionality |...
The Part 1 of this series talks about how People Picker works under the default configuration . In this post I will focus on what changes when we have SharePoint servers in the farm & principals (...
View ArticleBlob Cache in SharePoint
1.What is Blob Cache?Disk-based Caching for Binary Large ObjectsDisk-based caching controls caching for binary large objects (BLOBs) such as image, sound, and video files, as well as code fragments....
View ArticleCRL verification Failure –SharePoint
Couple of weeks back, I had a chance to work with one of the customer who reported multiple issues in his farm. These issues were followed by a farm wide outage and he ended up contacting Microsoft. I...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010: Issues with Service Application Proxy & Proxy Group...
At times we would see errors while accessing various Service applications. These types of issues manifest with various symptoms at different locations, here is an example of a few I have come...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007: SSP upgrade issue with SP3
The Office Server Search gatherer crawled documents in batches. It creates a batch ID each time it loads documents from the crawl queue into SQL, these BatchIDs are stored in MSSBatchHistory Table...
View ArticleOffice 365-Configure Hybrid Search with Directory Synchronization –Password Sync
One of the key features in SharePoint 2013 release is to provide our customers a way to move to the cloud on their own terms. A key requirement of today’s IT industry is cloud and on-premise solutions...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Using blob caching throws many errors in the ULS and Event...
Are you seeing several errors related to Blob Caching in the ULS Logs / Event Viewer?Various ULS Logs errors:· "An error occurred in the blob cache. The exception message was: 'The system cannot find...
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