SharePoint 2013 not sending emails for things like mentions
Today I have been tasked with finding out why our SharePoint 2013 farm is not sending out emails to users when they are mentioned in news feeds, despite having the notifications enabled in the newsfeed settings: SharePoint is configured to…
Sorry, but to open this workbook, your computer must be running a supported version of Microsoft Excel
Since installing Office 365 ProPlus (I was originally using Office 2016 ProPlus but now have an Office 365 account) on my desktop computer any documents I open in SharePoint 2013 open in Office Web Apps despite the document library being…
Connect to Office 365 SharePoint Online using PowerShell
Here is how to connect to your SharePoint Online environment using PowerShell and the Connect-SPOService cmdlet: Download the SharePoint Online Management Shell Run the SharePoint Online Management Shell (there will be an icon in the Start Menu) Connect using the…
Increase list view threshold from 5000 items
By default SharePoint lists are throttled with a threshold of 5000 items. This is mainly to prevent a drain on resource and performance decrease: Whilst not recommended for production environments it is possible to increase this value in Central Administration. …
Export-SPWeb error – there is not enough space on the disk
I am exporting a document library from a SharePoint 2013 site using the Export-SPWeb PowerShell cmdlet but after a few minutes it generates the following error: Export-SPWeb : There is not enough space on the disk. The document library is…
SharePoint Foundation Event ID 8306
I was testing my SharePoint 2013 disaster recovery farm today and was getting a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error for each of the site collections. I could see that Event ID 8306 was being recorded in the Application event log: An…
Show the SharePoint document version inside a Word document
If versioning is enabled on a document library it is possible to show the SharePoint document version inside a Word document (rather than maintain the version inside the Word document manually). It involves configuring a label in the Document Library…
AutoSPInstaller – stuck on Running Prerequisite Installer (online mode)
I am using AutoSPInstaller to install SharePoint 2016 on multiple Windows 2016 servers. It has finished what it needs to do on the local server and has started installing on the first remote server. However, it has been stuck for a few hours…
Failing timer job – Search Custom Dictionaries Update
In my SharePoint 2016 lab I can see the following appearing repeatedly in the logs: OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0D20) 0x15FC SharePoint Foundation Timer 6398 Critical The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CustomDictionaryDeploymentJobDefinition (ID f637505e-2ce6-4785-8d88-37a210be6cc4) threw an exception. More information is included below. …
SharePoint 2016 – The upgraded database schema doesn’t match the TargetSchema
I have not had much exposure to SharePoint 2016 yet and have only just applied my first cumulative update. Unfortunately it didn’t go well and failed. Here is what I pulled out of the log file: ERR Failed to…
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