Installing Reporting Services for SharePoint 2013 to support Power View
Today I am installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SSRS) to enable the Power View feature in SharePoint 2013. There are three steps to this process: Install, register and start Reporting Services Report Server Create a Reporting Services Service…
Configure continuous crawl on an existing content source
I’m working on a SharePoint farm where documents don’t appear in search results until the next day. To ensure they appear in search results within one hour of being uploaded I will configure a continuous crawl on the content source:…
SharePoint 2013 – Search Query Suggestions not working
If you find that query suggestions do not work in your SharePoint 2013 Search then here are a few things you can try. Enable search suggestions 1. Log into Central Administration 2. Navigate to Manage Service Applications -> Search…
SharePoint 2013 backup fails – Object Crawl-0 (E: on WW-SP) failed in event OnBackupComplete
Today I encountered the following failure message when running a manual backup of my SharePoint 2013 environment using Central Administration: Object Crawl-0 (E: on WW-SP) failed in event OnBackupComplete. For more information, see the spbackup.log or sprestore.log file located in…
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…
Change the location of usage logs
By default SharePoint stores it’s usage logs in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS but if a server doesn’t have a large C: drive then it is easy to change the location to a larger drive. Here is how: 1….
Databases exist on servers running SharePoint Foundation
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…
Error when creating a new User Profile Connection to Active Directory
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…
Modify the number of backup threads
By default SharePoint is configured to use 3 backup threads. This can be increased to improve performance and reduce the amount of time taken to backup large farms. However, the log files can become more difficult to read. These are…
Configure the maximum file upload size
I have just tried to upload a fairly large file to a SharePoint Document Library but it failed because it exceeded the maximum supported size, as shown in the screenshot below. The exact error reads: "The specified file is larger…
Loading ...