SharePoint Designer 2010 – The server could not complete your request
Today I had a user report that they were trying to use SharePoint Designer to edit the home page of their team site but it displayed an error message: The server could not complete your request. For more specific information,…
SharePoint 2013 – Request an upgrade evaluation site collection
If you have a site collection that is in SharePoint 2010 mode you can create a temporary upgrade evaluation site collection using the Request-SPUpgradeEvaluationSite cmdlet. Here is an example of how this would look: Request-SPUpgradeEvaluationSite -Identity http://portal.lab.local/sites/sp2010site By default the…
Identify customisations to be installed when upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
If you are planning to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to a SharePoint 2013 farm you may need to identify the customisations that must be installed on the new farm. You can do this using stsadm.exe: stsadm.exe -o enumallwebs -includewebparts…
Limit the number of concurrent site upgrades
If you are upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 you may wish to limit the number of sites that can be upgraded concurrently. The example below uses the Set-SPContentDatabase PowerShell cmdlet to set the limit to 5: $var =…
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:…
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…
Audit Log Reports link missing in SharePoint 2010
I have enabled auditing for a site collection but when I open the Site Settings page the Audit Log Reports link is missing. To fix this, I ran the following command: STSADM.EXE -o ActivateFeature -Name Reporting -URL http://intranet -Force Now…
PowerShell script to identify documents with long path names
I wrote this PowerShell script to identify all documents in a site that exceed 256 characters in length. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ff919564(v=office.14).aspx for more information. Feel free to copy the code and use the script as you see fit (at your own…
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…
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