After checking out a page to edit using SharePoint Designer I was presented with an unfamiliar error: soap: ServerServer was unable to process request. —> Value does not fall within the expected range. This is the first time I have encountered…
In response to a user query on www.windows2008forums.co.uk I have managed to replicate the error generated while using the Backup-SPFarm command to backup an entire farm. Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod Full -Directory D:\Backups\ The After trawling through the spbackup.log file I found…
It’s fairly easy to add a user to a SharePoint group using the New-SPUser command. All you need to know is the URL of the site, the name of the user and the group they are to become a member of. …
Sometimes I upload multiple documents to a document library and they require check-in. One or two documents isn’t much of a problem but any more than that can become a chore. Well it is possible to check-in multiple documents at…
I am working on an installation of SharePoint Foundation that has been reporting the following error for some time: Databases exist on servers running SharePoint Foundation To ensure better performance it is highly recommended to host the databases used by SharePoint…
I’m about to create a whole new installation of SharePoint 2010 so have decided to take AutoSPInstaller for a test drive. To prepare, I have: Built a new Windows 2008 R2 server and installed Active Directory, creating a new domain…
I’m not an SQL expert so I imagine I make a lot of common mistakes when setting up databases. I have just discovered sp_BLITZ by Brent Ozar, which is a set of scripts that will assess the configuration, security, health…
When installing SharePoint onto many servers it can take some time afterwards to install the available updates. To make life easier they can be installed automatically during installation simply by placing them into the Updates folder within the installation source. …
So, I’ve just installed SharePoint Foundation 2013 on a clean Windows 2012 server yet the Health Analyzer is complaining about a few things. I’ll work my way through fixing them and the first one I’ll tackle is “More Cache hosts…
I’m installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012 ‘offline’ – the server has no Internet access. Within minutes of starting the Preparation Tool to install the prerequisites it has failed to install the Web Server (IIS) Role. The process failed because…
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