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…
A certificate validation operation took xxxx milliseconds and has exceeded the execution time threshold
I have just noticed the following message logged several times in the Application Event Log on a SharePoint 2013 Application server: A certificate validation operation took 23369.387 milliseconds and has exceeded the execution time threshold. If this continues to occur,…
AutoSPInstaller error – Failed to download WCF Data Services 5.6 installation package
I have downloaded SharePoint 2013 SP1 (Service Pack 1) to be installed offline with AutoSPInstaller 3.96. However, the prerequisites installer fails with the following error: WARNING: 2014-04-21 09:15:29 – Error: InternetOpenUrl failed (0X80072EE7=-2147012889) WARNING: 2014-04-21 09:15:29 – Error: Failed to…
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…
AutoSPInstaller error – the tool was unable to install Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role
I have just downloaded AutoSPInstaller 3.96 to install SharePoint 2013 onto a clean Windows 2012 R2 server but it fails to install the IIS role, generating the following error: WARNING: 2014-04-20 18:01:10 – Error: Unable to install (2) WARNING: 2014-04-20…
Change user display name using PowerShell
I have recently extended a web application to enable Form Based Authentication. After a few days I noticed that user display names are showing in the following format: i:0#.f|webbworldfbamembershipprovider|dave@webbworld.local I would prefer to see “Firstname Surname” format. To fix this I can user the Set-SPUser PowerShell command to change…
Access denied when a user click ‘Add document’
I have recently received random reports from users that they are presented with an access denied message when trying to upload files to a document library by clicking the ‘Add document’ link: The permissions all looked fine so I turned…
‘Could not execute CVTRES.EXE’ error when opening Site Web Analytics Reports
While trying to access the Site Web Analytics Reports page for a site I was presented with an error I hadn’t encountered before: An error occurred during the compilation of the requested file, or one of its dependencies. Could not…
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