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…
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…
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. …
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…
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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