Incident This warning message has turned up in the Health Analyzer on a SharePoint 2013 OnPrem Server. “Product / patch installation or server upgrade required” Finding the root cause I opened the “Version history” to see when this message started to show up: I also checked the “Database status” in “Upgrade and Migration” and found …
Tag: Administration
I inherited permissions on a site the other day and boom! Got an Error message and then…. the site got the annoying “500 Internal server error” and was no longer accessible. Great. No immediate cause in the log files, though scanned them up and down. Enabled custom errors in web.config and got this error:”The DataSourceID …
Yey! If you want to save the server administrator (speaking!) some hell by deleting old backup folders and save disk space, then this is a solution for you! Create a new file with Notepad and name it like deletebackupfiles.vbs and paste the following code (I cannot write the code here of course, but you can …
This is the rest of the story regarding Search issues Problem: the customer has a server farm (the platform is one SQL, two WFE with MOSS 2007) and NLB running. When accessing one of the servers, the Search Box is missing. This is what the customer reported to me, and where my troubleshooting started. Summary: …
I have installed WSS 3 and Search Server Express on a Windows Server 2008 machine. No problems with that, all is fine. But today I found that three errors were logged in Event Viewer. They are: Event ID 6398 Event ID 6482 Event ID 7076 Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminSharedWebServiceInstance (02203890-d48f-4db7-9704-017c33fe14ff). …
That will NOT work! Even if it says so when you read about it… or does it? Quite unclear information on MS pages I would say. But after having installing, trying to make it work, uninstalling, and install again I finally got an answer to why it didn’t work: So, do NOT install the advanced …
Yes that succeeded today! But not without some issues and error messages, hello what do ya think? I think those who writes the installation scripts are terrorists and they want you to fear heart failure each time you must install something new on the server. :)… To be continued, I will show you the errors …
I am setting up an extranet site where the customer wants the user to be logged out after a certain idle time. Since there is no way to make the user logged out using windows authentication, for logical reasons, then I must activate forms authentication. But I dont want to have yet another user register …
This is really irritating. The service Windows Sharepoint Services Timer regularly hangs on the server, which leads to that no alerts are sent out. And you cannot just restart the service, that wont help, you must stop and start the service. Weird. Yet another issue to add to the list…
Yes, today I have been fighting with a customers small business server – but I won!! What I did? The most dreaded – uninstalled WSS 2 on a SBS server and installed a fresh WSS 3 version. Everything went perfect until I wanted to give the new portal a hostname. Did not work. Every hostname …
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