Setup an app store in SharePoint

If you want to create your own SP app store, then you need to go through quite a few steps.. Here we go!In Central AdminFirst create a new app catalog site   I created one on http://server:2013/sites/apps   Create the app mgmt service application and the Subscription service app Create the subscription service app $account = Get-SPManagedAccount …

Search hangs on “Starting”

I think I know why this happened from the beginning. I got the warning message in Health Reports about having Admin accounts running the app pools or services. So I have corrected one account and now all these messages are gone. But that caused a new problem with Search Service. The error message was: “Unable …

Unable to start UPS due to Event 6398 on SP2013

This happened on a fresh install of SharePoint 2013 on a Win 2012 server, without any CU’s applied. When I started the User Profile Service Application it hung and just when into “Stopped” mode. Checked the Event Viewer and found this error, Event 6398: “The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob (ID 84821b32-cf9f-45ff-801b-bb25b69faa6f) threw an exception. More information …

How to replicate InfoPath forms with data connections

As I have written about before replication of InfoPath forms that are using data connections, has not been working using Metalogix Replicator http://sharepointbabe.blogspot.ae/2013/01/infopath-forms-do-not-work-with.htmlBut now this has been resolved by Metalogix and here are the steps needed to make this work. 1) The latest version of Replicator must be installed, that is version 6.0.7812.0 2) Make sure the …

Upgrade part 6: Upgrade MySites to SP2013

This is how I upgraded our SP 2010 mysite site collections to SP 2013 Restored a copy of the 2010 database for MySites to my test serverRemoved the content db in CADetached the db in SQLAttached the restored copy in SQLAdded the content db in CA Do an iisreset Now ready for some test runs… Test-SPContentDatabase …

My experience of using Replication

I have used replication between 8 SharePoint server farms for almost a year now. I am usually a very nice and patient person, but now the patience is running out and I feel frustrated and need to write about this so maybe it can help others who are considering replication. And I am being brutally honest (sorry to …