If, like me, you would like the contents of TIFF files crawled and included in SharePoint search results then this is easy to achieve by installing the Microsoft TIFF IFilter on your SharePoint server(s). Here’s how: 1. Open Server Manager…
I am installing SharePoint 2013 for the first time – it’s a standalone installation on a clean Windows 2012 server. SharePoint appears to have installed without incident but the Configuration Wizard has failed with the following message: “The SDDL string…
If, like me, you are planning to move from SharePoint 2013 sometime soon then this free set of resources from Microsoft will certainly be of use to you. It contains several visual representations of recommended solutions for SharePoint 2013 relating…
Microsoft has today released a security update that addresses four vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to gain elevated privileges. More information, including a link to download the update, can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-024
In addition to regular SharePoint backups I have decided to create a SQL Maintenance Plan to backup the content database to a file each night. This will enable me to quickly and easily restore the database directly in SQL should I need to,…
I have been tasked with investigating an error that is being logged in the Application event log on a SharePoint server recently upgraded to SharePoint 2010 ServicePack 1. The error is logged as follows: The mount operation for the gatherer application…
I’m installing SharePoint Foundation 2013 for the first time on a clean Windows 2012 server and, until now, it was going well. I have installed the prerequisites and SharePoint Foundation but the Configuration Wizard failed with this error: Failed to…
I have just opened the SharePoint Management Shell on a WFE server to be presented with a message I haven’t seen before: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered. When searching for a solution to…
I’ve been trying to create a new User Profile Connection to Active Directory for User Profile Synchronisation but it keeps failing with the following error message: Error: No dsml attribute matching mvAttribute value I’ve tried to troubleshoot this by restarting…
This sample SQL query can be executed to backup a site collection database to a file, where WSS_Content_Intranet is the name of the database used by the Site Collection. Use WSS_Content_Intranet DBCC Shrinnkfile (‘WSS_Content_Intranet’) DBCC Shrinnkfile (‘WSS_Content_Intranet_log’) Go Backup Database WSS_Content_Intranet To Disk…
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