Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-024 – Critical
Microsoft has today released a security update that addresses four vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to gain elevated privileges. More information, including a link to download the update, can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-024
Creating a SQL Maintenance Plan to backup SharePoint content databases
In addition to regular SharePoint backups I have decided to create a SQL Maintenance Plan to backup the content database to a file each night. This will enable me to quickly and easily restore the database directly in SQL should I need to,…
SharePoint Foundation Search Event ID 70
I have been tasked with investigating an error that is being logged in the Application event log on a SharePoint server recently upgraded to SharePoint 2010 ServicePack 1. The error is logged as follows: The mount operation for the gatherer application…
Configuration Failed – Failed to create the configuration database
I’m installing SharePoint Foundation 2013 for the first time on a clean Windows 2012 server and, until now, it was going well. I have installed the prerequisites and SharePoint Foundation but the Configuration Wizard failed with this error: Failed to…