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…
w3wp.exe: All query processing components are in ‘Failed’ status
Users are currently unable to use the Search Centre in our SharePoint 2013 environment, they see the following error: Sorry, something went wrong. Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact…
SharePoint 2013 – “Sorry, something went wrong” when configuring Incoming E-Mail Settings
While trying to enable incoming email settings for a document library in SharePoint 2013 I clicked OK on the form and received the following error: Sorry, something went wrong An unexpected error has occurred. I found the following in the ULS logs…
SharePoint 2013 – “An unexpected error has occurred” when configuring incoming E-Mail settings
While trying to enable incoming E-mail settings for a document library within SharePoint 2013 I received the following error: An unexpected error has occurred. I used the Merge-SPLogFile PowerShell cmdlet to collate all log entries relating to the correlation ID. The…
Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact your administrator
In our SharePoint 2013 farm we have some Content Search Web Parts that display content based on a search query. These work fine in our production environment but in the DR environment they just produce an error (as per the…
Using the Merge-SPLogFile cmdlet
The Merge-SPLogFile cmdlet can be a real time saver if you need to search the SharePoint logs and there are multiple servers in the farm. I regularly use it to search for a specific correlation ID and then open the…
"Sorry, something went wrong" when a user tries to edit their profile
I have had users report that they are unable to edit their profile, they just get the unhelpful “Sorry, something went wrong” error. Fortunately some of them thought to record the Correlation ID so I was able to use the…
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