Problem Description A new installation of SharePoint fails to provision a new farm due to a failure while creating the configuration database. Example: Here is the exception stack from the PSCDiagnostics log:

Cause This issue can occur if you chose to download and install all the prerequisite software manually, namely in this case the […]

Symptom Unable to join any servers to your Production SharePoint Farm. PSConfig is failing with error “Keyset does not exist”   From PSCDiagnostics Log:

Cause PSCONFIG was failing while attempting to join a serer to the Farm with error “Keyset does not exist” because the PSCONFIG process was attempting to create the required Machine […]

Symptom Downloading results from a SharePoint site query fails partly through the export with the following error: “The content can no longer be saved to the export location. Please ensure that it is available and has sufficient space.” Cause This problem was caused by an authentication context switch when attempting to download an InfoPath Form. […]

Symptom Unable to fully load Central Admin on a newly built SharePoint Farm. In this case, the issue only occurs when compression is enabled (which is on by default). After loading Central Admin, the top ribbon in service application section is grayed out. When this occurs, the only way for Central Admin to function properly […]

Summary I worked on a long running RBS case where the customer followed the steps in our TechNet Article , which resulted in SharePoint throwing an the following error while uploading files to a document library, after enabling RBS. w3wp.exe (0x0EF0)         0x24E4  SharePoint Foundation  Runtime               tkau                Unexpected System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The URL ‘Shared Documents/document1.docx’ is invalid.  It […]