Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS channel
Today I tried to add an Exchange calendar overlay to an existing calendar in SharePoint 2010 but encountered the following error: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority ‘<mailserver>’. I have already added the trust…
Audit Log Reports link missing in SharePoint 2010
I have enabled auditing for a site collection but when I open the Site Settings page the Audit Log Reports link is missing. To fix this, I ran the following command: STSADM.EXE -o ActivateFeature -Name Reporting -URL http://intranet -Force Now…
PowerShell script to identify documents with long path names
I wrote this PowerShell script to identify all documents in a site that exceed 256 characters in length. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ff919564(v=office.14).aspx for more information. Feel free to copy the code and use the script as you see fit (at your own…
Using Get-SPWebTemplate to list available site templates
The New-SPSite PowerShell cmdlet allows you to specify the name of a template to use. If you don’t know the names of all the templates then use the Get-SPWebTemplate command to produce a list: Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object “Name The list…
Event ID 14 – The start address cannot be crawled
I have just spent hours trying to get to the bottom of an issue with search in SharePoint 2010. No results were being returned and the following error was reoccurring in the Application Event Log: The start address http://wprintranet cannot…
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147467259
Today I have been dealing with lots of errors being logged in the System event log in a SharePoint 2010 development environment. The error is Event ID 7024: The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147467259 I tried…
The selected cells are read-only
Today I received a report from a user that while using Datasheet View to manage a list they were presented with the following error message: "The selected cells are read-only" I have come across this in the past and the…
Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred
While monitoring the ULS logs on a SharePoint 2010 server I could see the following message being logged every few minutes for each and every database: Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. The…