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 …
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 …
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 …
I want to create my own layout for use on the intranet front page. I don’t want to have a left side menu and I want three columns where the middle one should be the widest. There is no page layout that fits my need so I will create my own. Go to Design Manager …
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 …
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 …
One thing that is introduced (or has come back actually) in SP2013 is: AD import. The big benefit of using ADI is that it is fast and easy to setup. Also, the filters are ready so you can just check a box to filter out disabled accounts!! Great! Not much can go wrong there. But, …
I will only upgrade one service app and that is the Managed Metadata service application, since I have built the company wiki based on a taxonomy tree there. There is an article on technet that I followed to update this, but it failed. I tried it twice and got the same error and I am …
Content databasesNumber and size of databases. Any old that should not be moved over? Custom solutions and brandingIdentify: customizations, branding files, style sheets, farm solutions, customized web parts and copy/install all these files on the new server. Make sure the third party products or any farm solutions are compatible with SP2013. Database structureShould we split …
I had a look at what Technet suggests as upgrade steps, and here is the table. I don’t see anything about preparing your database for Claims authentication, as was so much spoken of at the conference. It will have to be a trial and error. On my SP2010 test server, I have a restored …