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What is SharePoint Perfwiz and why do we need a replacement? SharePoint Perfwiz was a tool used by Product Support to create performance log counters on SharePoint servers to troubleshoot performance issues. This tool has been deprecated but there is still a need to collect performance data for those pesky performance issues. The Perfwiz tool […]
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Summary Just a quick blog to discuss a misleading status message within SharePoint Apps “From You Organization“. Problem You may find that after installing a SharePoint App into your App Catalog, you are unable to install the app in your Site collection and the status will display “You can’t add this app here“. Cause This […]
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Summary I recently worked on a case where News from associated sites are not displayed in the hub News Webpart. This took several months to resolve due to the complexity of hub news webpart and how it integrates with the Search Engine to retrieve and display news from the associated sites. Before getting into the […]
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Summary Just a quick blog post that details why you may receive an “Access Denied” when running PROCDUMP and a quick fix for this scenario. Problem Description Unable to dump a process with PROCDUMP due to an “Access Denied” error. Example: ProcDump v9.0 – Sysinternals process dump utility Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Mark Russinovich and Andrew […]
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Problem Summary I recently worked on a few cases where SharePoint “Access Request” e-mails are not delivered, but “Alert” e-mails work. Since Alert e-mail are working, we know that outgoing e-mail is configured properly. However, when users request access to a new site, the access request email would never make it to the site admin […]
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Problem I recently worked on an issue where lists in SharePoint were enabled for incoming e-mail and created in Active Directory / Exchange using the “Directory Management Service. These new lists should be created as e-mail enabled contacts with an external e-mail target address in Exchange. However, after setting an e-mail address on a SharePoint […]
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Summary I have seen this very obscure SharePoint issue a few times and almost impossible to identity and resolve without extensive debugging. So, I just wanted to get this blog out there to help the next SharePoint Admin that may experience this situation with a quick resolution. Symptom: While trying to access the site http://sharepoint […]
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Summary It’s a best practice to test the compatibility of a migrated content database against the new target Farm before attaching the database and allowing users to access the migrated sites. This compatibly test is achieved by running Test-SPContentDatabase. Sounds too easy, right? Well, I recently worked on a case where “Test-SPContentDatabase” was reporting missing […]
I recently worked on a case where SharePoint sites would not load after rebuilding the SharePoint Farm and utilizing an existing server. I’m blogging this issue is because the root cause and solution was very obscure, and the error presented on the site is totally misleading. If you came here because you are experiencing this […]
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Summary If your servers require a reg key and unsure if its properly configured. You can use this script to check if the key is present or is set to the correct value across multiple servers. The Script
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#Simple Server list $servers = Get-Content C:\servers.txt # Loop through all servers and check key foreach ($server in $servers) { $REG = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $server) $REGKEY = $REG.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa") $val = $REGKEY.GetValue("DisableLoopBackCheck") # If the key is missing or not set it will be displayed in red # If the key is set it will be displayed in green if (!$val){ Write-Host $server "is not set" -ForegroundColor Red } if ($val -ne "1"){ Write-Host $server "is not set properly" -ForegroundColor Red } else{ Write-Host $server "is set" -ForegroundColor Green } } |
What the Script Does In the sample above it will check the “DisableLoopBackCheck” key across a […]