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…
Increase list view threshold from 5000 items
By default SharePoint lists are throttled with a threshold of 5000 items. This is mainly to prevent a drain on resource and performance decrease: Whilst not recommended for production environments it is possible to increase this value in Central Administration. …
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…
Show the SharePoint document version inside a Word document
If versioning is enabled on a document library it is possible to show the SharePoint document version inside a Word document (rather than maintain the version inside the Word document manually). It involves configuring a label in the Document Library…
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…
Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact your administrator
In our SharePoint 2013 farm we have some Content Search Web Parts that display content based on a search query. These work fine in our production environment but in the DR environment they just produce an error (as per 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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