Hi

My Sharepoint crawls get "paused by system" because of our back-up tool (Symantec Back-up Exec).
Symantec is aware of this issue.
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH164222

I have tried to restart the crawl by using this PowerShell guide:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/28/how-to-use-sharepoint-2010-windows-powershell-cmdlets-to-manage-search-crawls.aspx

For Crawls that haven't been "paused by system" this works perfectly. But for my situation it doesn't.

The only way to get the crawl to restart again is to manually click on "Start all crawls". But when the next back-up runs it get paused again.
So every evening I need to log on to the central administration and click the "Start all crawls" button (This is quite annoying).
When clicking on this you get the following message:

If you click "Ok" the Crawl starts running again like normal (until it get paused again when the next back-up runs).

Is there anychance that i can resume the crawl using PowerShell or any other scripting language/ or simulate the click on "Start all crawls" button?

Thanks in advance.

Hans

Hi all,

I want to test PowerPivot 2012 on the following configuration:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 
- Sharepoint 2010 - Enterprise edition
- SQL Server 2008 R2 
- PowerPivot for Sharepoint<o:p></o:p>

As such, I downloaded SQL Server 2012 Evaluation and tried to upgrade SQL Server 2008 PowerPivot for Sharepoint instance to SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Sharepoint. It didn't work as it's not possible to upgrade from Enterprise to Evaluation edition without a pid.

Next, I uninstalled the existing SQL Server 2008 PowerPivot for Sharepoint and I installed the SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Sharepoint. 

I started to configure PowerPivot in Central administration (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210609.aspx) , but I got stuck at the 2nd step Create and Configure a PowerPivot Service Application (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210685.aspx) in Central Administration.

The problem is that both SQL Integration Service  and SQL Server PowerPivot System service are not visible in Central administration > Manage services on server; however they are visible and running in Windows Administrative Tools > Services.


Do you think the services are missing in Sharepoint Central Administration because the Sharepoint configuration database is on SQL Server 2008, while the Powerpivot instance is on SQL Server 2012 ?

We have a Sharepoint 2010 system with claims based authentication (forms authentication) that is used by our government customers.  They would like to start using CAC cards to authenticate to this system.  Is it possible?  If so, would this be instead of or in addition to the current authentication method?  Where can I find some step by step instructions for how to accomplish this?

thanks,

Hello,

I seem to be having an issue with my SharePoint Server search Full Crawl.

The crawl has been running for 800+ hours. When I check the logs the errors are

CSQLCrawl::ExecuteCommand fails Error 0x80040e14
SQL call failed
CGather::SQLExecuteCrawlAction ExecuteCommand 145 returned error 0x80040e14

All signs point to a database issue, but permissions look good and there's no hung up processes that would have me believe the crawl service wouldn't be able to access the db.

Searched the web with no answers. Tried a few suggestions with similar issues (like checking if all my lists and libraries had a default view or if I needed a server update.)

SharePoint 2010 Standalone installation.

I've finally been given permission to update my systems and now I've got one Sharepoint 2010 (Service Pack 2) farm with 2 WFE which  both the Sharepoint Configuration Wizard and the Sharepoint Central Admin > Manage Patch Status report 3 patches missing on just 1 of the 2 WFE servers:

KB2826022

KB2828029

KB2589365

However, they appear to match in patch status according to Windows' Control Panel 'Installed Updates" shows all of them.

I've restarted twice since the patching and tried a manual download, but it will not install, claiming it is not needed.

Hi,

I want to know how many maximum no of WFEs can be added in one farm?

Thanks! Best Regards, Prasham Sabadra http://prashamsabadra.blogspot.in

Hi every one,

Situation:

1. Windows 2008 R2 Data Center Edition > Data Base Server

• Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 RTM > Data Base

2. Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise > WFE

• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise
• PowerPivot for SharePoint
• SQL Server Integrity Services
• SQL Reporting Services
• Excel Services
• Visio Services
• …

Error:

• The user name or password is incorrect-Log on failed. Ensure the user name and password are correct.
• The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.

Elaboration:

When I create a direct and individual .rdl files, They are running properly and there is not problem.

The problem occurred when I clicked on "create report builder report" in a Gallery view where I uploaded a .xlsx enriched by PowerPivot to make a .rdl report.

When the "sql server 2008 r2 report builder 3" ran, thedata source was created automatically like this:

Data Source=http://<domain name>/sites/<site collection>/Gallery1/<file name>.xlsx

 point one:

The credential was set:

"use current windows user. Kerberos delegation might be required."

 and in General> test connection > Connection Created Successfully

But:

In Datasets (right click)>  "Add Dataset…" > use a dataset embedded in my report, <file name>.xlsx, Query Designer…

The error occurs here: "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error."

Point two:

Change the credential of data source to:

"use this user name and password:

User name: <domain>\<user>

Password:    ****

Use as windows credential

But:

In Datasets (right click)>  "Add Dataset…" > use a dataset embedded in my report, <file name>.xlsx, Query Designer…

The error occurs here: "The user name or password is incorrect-Log on failed. Ensure the user name and password are correct."

P.S:

I test these:

On WFE > reporting services configuration manager>

• <domain>\reporting services > Start Services
• Service account > use another account <user name> and <password>
• …
• Execution account > "specified"
• Encrypted key deleted

The SSIS is running in both server (PowerPivot for SharePoint which is on WFE and SQL server)

• I checked all possible position (stop it on one of servers and start on another…)

I disable the anonymous Access in  Central Administration > Authentication Provider> Edit default Authentication> remove tick mark (and one another time put it)

Plus both Enable and disable client integration

I checked log file in

%program file%\ Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.REPORTINGSERVICE\Reporting Services\LogFiles

There was no recent log file (the last one was for about 5 hours ago), besides there was nothing corresponding with these errors.

… if there is anything that I didn't explained, please ask me.

I am straggling with this error about 9 days.

Would you please help me?

We have a site collection where two of our custom content types show up twice and when we try to edit some properties of this content type we get an error message (Error=No two choices should have the same ID)

I don't know how this happened.  My only guess is that this site collection was imported from a backup and I think the administrator imported it once but gave it the wrong name so she imported it again. 

Is there any way to delete just ONE of these duplicated content types?  I haven't tried going to one of these content types and clicking Delete because of the two instances have the exact same ID then if I click Delete on one, I have a feeling it will delete both instance.  I know for sure  the ID of both instances is the same because first of all I got that message above and also when I go to edit the content type the URL shows the ID and both instances of this content type show the exact same ID in the URL.

thanks,

Hi there,

Do SharePoint workflows send email reminders when SharePoint site collection is in Read Only mode?

Thanks.

We are getting this error while trying to activate the publishing feature in SharePoint 2010. I do not even know where to debug this issue. Any helps will be appreciated

Thanks

I'm testing the in-place upgrade process to get from SSRS and PowerPivot 2008 R2 to 2014.

I've started by upgrading the POWERPIVOT instance on the first of my 4 SharePoint farm servers and everything looked great and was full of lovely green ticks. 

I then rebooted before running the PowerPivot Configuration Tool for SharePoint 2010. The tool opened and I selected the relevant "Upgrade Features, Services, Applications and Solutions" option which got as far as running one of the PowerShell scripts and the failed with an error related to the version of the .NET Framework not being compatible with SP2010. This makes sense given that all of my PowerShell has had to be configured to use the -Version 2 switch in the command line for the executable so I started to step through the scripts that are used by the configuration tool to add that -version 2 switch the the function calls and got different errors. This morning I've gone back to the VM and when I now run the POWERPIVOT Configuration Tool I get told that the server has SharePoint SP1 installed but has not been upgraded and to run the PSCONFIG wizard to upgrade. That makes sense but I'm loathe to do iut because this is the first server in the farm and the config isn't finished. I don't want to run the upgrade wizard until all of the PowerPivot and SSRS components are installed on all 4 servers. Any ideas? N03L.

Our Production SharePoint environment is managed by a dedicated team who recently applied April CU KB2965294 to our farm/all servers. We manage our own Test environment which should be as near a replica of Production as possible (with the exception its a stand alone box not a farm & the everything is all on the one box), so I installed the same update.

The upgrade was installed on test from the downloaded .msi & I ran psconfig afterwards. All seemed fine except in Central Admin\Review Database Status, one of the databases advised under status "Database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded." The stsadm tool showed 19/32 site collections still required upgrading.

So I queried SP Powershell using Get-SPContentDatabase to get the content db's Id's, then ran Upgrade-SPContentDatabase. The window goes through the process but once at 100% I'm advised that the upgrade completed with errors. Consulting the log file it references it is littered with the following errors:

[powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence2] [WARNING] [8/20/2015 2:16:41 PM]: Feature could not be upgraded. Exception: Feature definition id 'cf51d108-a87f-4051-aae1-e275fc9caca6' could not be found.
[powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence2] [WARNING] [8/20/2015 2:16:41 PM]: Feature could not be upgraded. Exception: Feature definition id '758f13d1-e7d8-447d-83f2-426f72479bf2' could not be found.

&

[powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence2] [ERROR] [8/20/2015 2:16:41 PM]: Feature upgrade failed for Feature 'CompanyName.SharePoint.Platform.Feature.Setup_SeriesVisualizationRulesetConfiguration' (Id: '95abc29d-a4ca-4372-84b4-645b07b71450') in Web 'https://Weburl etc etc'.
[powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence2] [ERROR] [8/20/2015 2:16:41 PM]: Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence2] [ERROR] [8/20/2015 2:16:41 PM]:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature.HandleUpgradeException(Exception e, Boolean continueUpgrade, Boolean markAsUpgraded, Boolean force)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.Upgrade(SPFeature feature, SPWebService webService, SPWebApplication webApp, SPSite site, SPWeb web, Boolean fForce)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature.Upgrade(SPSite site, SPWeb web, Boolean fForce)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSiteWssSequence2.DoUpgrade()

Now in Central Admin if I look under Upgrade & Migration/Upgrade Status the status has changed from "Successful" which it was at after the .msi/psconfig part to "Failed" - 7 Errors, 12 Warnings.

I'm completely stuck............can anyone help on how to update this database?

We have a farm that a previous employee configured. There's tons of problems..

To make it short we are trying to join another server to this farm.. We got to the point where we have to make everything the same build number. In this example SP1.. I installed SP1 on all servers and they are all reflecting the same build except for 1.. The server is the SQL server and also hosts SSRS.. On Add/Remove program it reflects the actual build number but on central admin it doesn't.. I tried to repair SharePoint for that particular server but getting this error

"Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Configuration did not complete successfully" 

"Error 1706. Setup cannot find the required files. Check your connections to the network or CD-ROM Drive........"

I already tried a SharePoint executable and an ISO but no help

I also tried the configuration wizard on this  problem server but stops on task 2 of 10 then gives out this error: Configuration Failed. Failed to initiate the upgrade sequence. An exception of type System.Data.SQLclient.SqlException was thrown........

While looking at the log I saw this "Discovered a v4 connection string and SPFarm.Local indicates that this machine is not joined. This is possible during B2B upgrade."

But again this server is joined to the domain and has SP1 but it's still reflecting as 14.0.4763.1000 in Central admin ..

Kindly please help :(

AJ MCTS: SP 2010 Configuration MCSA: Windows 7 If you find this post useful kindly please mark it as an answer :) TY

Howdy,

I have created a new service account in Active Directory. I have added this account to the Farm Administrators group, Local Administrator on all the SharePoint Servers, WSS_ADMIN_WPG, Full Control User Policy on all Web Apps and as db_owner on all content databases. Despite this, I cannot access Central Administration with the service account. Further, I can add the service account as a Site Collection Administrator to a Site Collection and cannot login to that location with the service account.

I don't get "access denied". It simply doesn't close the login dialog box. I have confirmed that the service account's password is correct and works by adding it to another system and logging in.

SharePoint 2010, SP2
Windows 7

Any guidance is appreciated!!!!

Steven

I had Exchange 2010 running on the Windows SBS 2011 and SharePoint 2010 on the same box, Exchange wasn't actually "correctly" installed there but everything was fine so one day I had to remove the Exchange and after its removal my SharePoint 2010 lost its functionality, not everything when I try to access any of the websites from my SharePoint I can see the error "503" and after spending hours troubleshooting this issue I found the appilcation pools changing their status from "Running" to "Stopped".

I tried several fixes, I tried to follow some tips like fixing the account passwords using the SharePoint Poweshell using the commands to repair the password through the farm, later I tried to input the password into the application pools manually, I even ran into several IISReset combinations and some other weird attempts with different commands but no sucess so far!

At this point I have my sharepoint "functional" but not "browsable", which means, you can use all the SharePoint PowerShell and even trying to rebuild the configuration usign the Setup Wizard form the installation but the problem is on the IIS which keeps preventing my web sites of opening, for every attempt the application pools are always set to Stopped even after recyclccing or manually restarting them to "Start"

I read the problem was really the Exchange which probably damaged the IIS, if it is true what should I do right now?

I created a workflow on an existing list in SharePoint 2010 to send notification to users to remind them the item expiration date.

The workflow works fine, but the problem is the list already has 600 items, and the workflow can only be triggered when item is created or modified or manually.    

How can I get the workflow to run without having to open each item one by one to save it (an modification action) in order to trigger it?

Is there a way to get workflow triggered on existing items?

Thanks for any tips!

Hi,

When ever I'm trying to install SharePoint 2010 Foundation on my windows 7 machine, I'm getting this error while configuring SharePoint Product Configuration Wizard on step 7 of 10.

Below is the log file...

I've done IIS reset, repair SharePoint 2010, but no solution. can someone please help me out with this problem?

Thanks in Advance

Hello,

I have a task list created with the option to send an e-mail alert to individuals when the item is assigned to them. Howeverspecific items are sending thousands of alerts to the assignees with the alert "... has been changed". The items havenot been changed so I'm not sure why these faulty e-mails are being sent.

I've checked the affected people's subscription / alert settings and they don't even have alerts set.

What's going on?

Our developers reported that the SSRS service application was not functioning on their development server.

Opening System Settings throws this error in the ULS log: