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Summary SharePoint and general app servers often use the SMTP Service to integrate e-mail into the systems functionality. Since Windows supports a well vetted SMTP Service, using the built-in application is often the best choice. With the said, when testing your app functionality with e-mail, Telnet is almost always needed and not installed by default. […]
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Summary The following script will create and populate data in a SharePoint Farm for testing. What does the Script do? Create a new web application, with a new web application pool. Create new database and associate it with the new web application. Update the local HOSTS file to make the new site accessible from the […]
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Symptom Have you ever experienced intermittent but short-lived delays while rendering your SharePoint site, which seems to correct itself, but then returns at random times? If so, read on… as the issue detailed below may be occurring in your Farm and going unnoticed. If you happen to catch one of the delays in action while […]
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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:
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01/11/2018 13:37:00 10 ERR Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException: One or more types failed to load. Please refer to the upgrade log for more details. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.LoadUpgradeActions() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.get_Actions() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.get_ActionsInternal() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUtility.GetLatestTargetSchemaVersionBeforeMajorVersion(Type typeActionSequence, Int32 majorVer) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSiteSequence.get_PreviousTargetSchemaVersion() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.PopulateSequencesTable(StringBuilder sqlstr, Boolean siteSequence) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.ConstructSiteNeedsUpgradeQuery(Guid siteId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence.GetSiteNeedsUpgrade(SPUpgradeSession session, SPContentDatabase database, Dictionary`2& dictSitesNeedUpgrade, Dictionary`2& dictSitesNeedFeatureUpgrade) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence.AddNextLevelObjects() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPHierarchyManager.Grow(SPTree`1 root, Boolean bRecursing, SPDelegateManager delegateManager) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPHierarchyManager.Grow(SPTree`1 root, SPDelegateManager delegateManager) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.NeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.ReflexiveNeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.NeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.ReflexiveNeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.NeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.ReflexiveNeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.NeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.ReflexiveNeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.NeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServerProductInfo.DetectLocalUpgradeStatus() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServerProductInfo.DetectLocalProductVersions(SPProductVersions prodVer) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServerProductInfo.UpdateProductInfoInDatabase(Guid serverGuid) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Join(Boolean skipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost, Nullable`1 serverRole) at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.CreateOrConnectConfigDb() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.Run() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask() |
Cause This issue can occur if you chose to download and install all the prerequisite software manually, namely in this case the […]
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Summary Is your SharePoint Farm in or soon to be in a hybrid state? If so, you may be considering to move your users on-prem Mysite to OneDrive in the cloud. After enabling Office 365 features via Central Admin and running the “Hybrid Picker” (SharePoint Hybrid Configuration Wizard) users will be in a hybrid state, […]
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Symptom Unable to join any servers to your Production SharePoint Farm. PSConfig is failing with error “Keyset does not exist” From PSCDiagnostics Log:
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11/07/2017 10:48:24 14 ERR Exception: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Keyset does not exist at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.CreateProvHandle(CspParameters parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer) at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.GetKeyPairHelper(CspAlgorithmType keyType, CspParameters parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer, Int32 dwKeySize, SafeProvHandle& safeProvHandle, SafeKeyHandle& safeKeyHandle) at System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider.GetKeyPair() at System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2.get_PrivateKey() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.CertificateManager.ReleaseCertificate(X509Certificate2 certificate) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCertificateAuthority.Issue(X500DistinguishedName subjectName, DateTime notBefore, DateTime notAfter, X509ExtensionCollection extensions) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCertificateAuthority.Issue(String subjectName, X509ExtensionCollection extensions) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceSettings.ProvisionLocalSslCertificate() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceSettings.ProvisionLocal(SPIisWebServiceSettingsProvisioningOptions options) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceInstance.Provision() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Join(Boolean skipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost) at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.CreateOrConnectConfigDb() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.Run() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask() |
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 […]
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Symptom After installing the September 2017 security patch for Outlook, Veritas Enterprise Vault shortcuts are no longer working. Cause This is a known issue which occurs after installing the security updates listed in the following KB articles. Outlook 2007 Outlook 2010 Outlook 2013 Outlook 2016 After applying this update, custom form script is now […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]