SharePoint

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. […]

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 […]

Summary The blog referenced in the resource section below does a great job at demonstrating how to create a new SharePoint Web Application Pool and associate it with the Web App using PowerShell. However, as mentioned in the blog the process is a little different for Service Applications. The following information is just a quick […]

Summary: The following PowerShell script was written for my post on configuring TLS between SharePoint and Exchange. However, since it was buried in process, I wanted to create a separate post just sharing the script, because it will be easier to maintain and use separately when needed. Why use a script anyway? I find this script […]

Configure TLS encryption between SharePoint on-premise and Exchange

Summary This blog will guide you through the steps required to configure, test and troubleshoot sending / receiving e-mail from SharePoint to Exchange using TLS encryption. Steps  (There are many, only because I have included many tips along the way) 1. Install SMTP and Telnet on the SharePoint App Server using server manager 2. Or with PowerShell […]