People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure
I often see this warning reported by SharePoint Health Analyzer: People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure There are lots of users in our organisation so I use the Get-ADUser…
SharePoint 2013 – Distributed Cache stuck on Starting
I have added a new cache host to a SharePoint 2013 farm using the Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance cmdlet. However, in Central Administration the service shows that it is stuck on Starting. If I use the Get-SPServiceInstance cmdlet then I can see that…
SharePoint 2013 – Sorry we are having trouble refreshing your tasks
I have configured My Sites in SharePoint 2013. However, when I attempt to refresh the tasks list it fails with the following message: Sorry, we’re having trouble refreshing your tasks. Contact your administrator if you continue to have problems. The…
SharePoint 2013 backup fails – Object Crawl-0 (E: on WW-SP) failed in event OnBackupComplete
Today I encountered the following failure message when running a manual backup of my SharePoint 2013 environment using Central Administration: Object Crawl-0 (E: on WW-SP) failed in event OnBackupComplete. For more information, see the spbackup.log or sprestore.log file located in…
SharePoint 2013 – Sign in as a different user
In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft removed the ‘Sign in as a different user’ option. Whilst there are a number of ways to get it back, some of them are unsupported. My preferred method is to use the Alt Login feature by…
SharePoint 2013 – Error running Update-SPProfilePhotoStore
I am attempting to import user profile pictures from Active Directory but when running the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore cmdlet it generates an error. Here is the command I am running: Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -CreateThumbnailsForImportedPhotos 1 -MySiteHostLocation http://mysite.mydomain.local and this is the error message: UserProfileApplicationProxy.ApplicationProperties…
AutoSPInstaller – stuck at Provisioning User Profile Service
Today I am using AutoSPInstaller to install SharePoint 2013 on a Windows 2012 R2 server. Unfortunately, it appears to have hung at the Provisioning User Profile Service process. After waiting for 2 hours and giving up, I have increased the…
AutoSPInstaller – Warning: Couldn’t create remote session to SERVERNAME; trying again
I’ve now used AutoSPInstaller to build multi-server farms several times, and often come across new issues (not the fault of AutoSPInstaller, I should add). Today the script has got stuck in a loop when trying to provision the User Profile…
Update-SPSecureStoreMasterKey – Secure Store Service did not performed the operation
If AutoSPInstaller fails while provisioning the Secure Store Service Application you may encounter this error: – Provisioning Secure Store Service Application… – Secure Store Service Application already provisioned. – Creating the Master Key… Update-SPSecureStoreMasterKey : Secure Store Service did not…
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