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 The case of the missing Find and Item search box!We had a busy SharePoint list in a web part on a SharePoint 2013 site. For usability, the list really needed a shaded style view. If you select a style other than "Default" it removes the option to have the "Find an item" search box. Here's what I did to help out. I set the style back to default. I put a script editor web part in the

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I installed KB4482464 on my sandbox server without issue so I moved to my development farm. Following the patch, Central Admin (CA) had an error: Unknown server tag 'AdminControls:MigrationToolPromotionTip'. I noticed that the sandbox environment CA had this banner: You can now use the SharePoint Migration Tool to migrate to OneDrive and SharePoint Online. It looks like that failed

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We had a use case of an InfoPath form with two person or group columns among other details. The list owner wanted to get the email address auto-populated in corresponding columns not on the form. I created two new person or group columns but changed the "Show field" to "Work email" as shown below: Then I created a SharePoint Designer workflow to set field in current item to the value of the

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Copying to an Office 365 Site Collection requires Custom Scripts to be enabled at the destination Using the Sharegate Desktop to Migrate on-premise team sites to Office 365 failed with Custom Scripts error I was able to resolve this with the following script: asnp *office* $adminUPN="Admin@orgname.onmicrosoft.com" $orgName="OrgName" $userCredential = Get-Credential -UserName $adminUPN

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I needed to edit a SharePoint 2013 page to open links from a Links app webpart in a new tab as the links were used for reference for the form on the page. Users were clicking the links and losing their progress in the form fields. We weren't able to reliably explain "right-click to open in new tab." I found a SharePoint designer solution which explained modifying the XSLT. I didn't want to

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I had a group complaining that users were receiving errors and unable to submit responses to a survey. I was able to trace the corelation id to this error in the ULS logs: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.  at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.RatingScaleField.Focus()    The root cause was the question was malformed. Scale

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Using CommVault Simpana item level SharePoint backup, one site collection was failing with Exception of type 'Cobalt.ErrorException' was thrown. We exported the document library using Central Admin under Backup and Restore==>Granular Backup==>Export a site or list. This produced logs where we experienced the same error.  We were able to pin it down to a checked out document. I

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In a SQL 2014 Availability Group, all the databases on the secondary replica were showing Not Synchronizing. All the tricks to resume synchronizing failed. I tried to add another database and synchronize that one. It failed. The root cause was the DNS record for the SQL server disappeared. Solution was ipconfig /registerdns from an elevated command prompt.

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My Office Web Apps (Office Online Server--OOS--in my case) server stopped rendering Office Docs with an error: Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document. If this happens again, try opening the document in Microsoft Word. The error also included a session ID. I was able to find the session ID in the ULS logs but it didn't seem to help as the error was quite generic. I had a load

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My Search service paused for External Request, In Central Admin Search Administration page in Administrative Status it read "paused for External Request" I tried all the tricks to get it to resume, but it was because the search service was stuck on starting. Running this STSADM command jarred it loose: stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicename osearch15 -servicetype "

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I got a report of People search failing in SharePoint. Sure enough, every one of my environments (dev/test/sandboxes/prod) exhibited an issue in the event log ID 1314: The start address sps3s://myserver:8080 cannot be crawled. Context: Application 'Search_Service_Application', Catalog 'Portal_Content' Details: Class not registered (0x80040154) It turns out Microsoft released a .NET

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I have a multiple condition approval SharePoint Designer workflow that was giving an error when users tried to open the task in Outlook: Outlook cannot open a new form. To open the file, access to the following form template is required: <<path to InfoPath approval form>> I tracked down an error in the ULS logs: Unhandled exception thrown while handling resource page request for /

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I was trying to update some settings on a SharePoint site where I was a Site Collection Administrator. I could read everything but could make no updates! What is going on? The site was locked as read-only. You can access "quotas and locks" in Central Admin for on-premise or use PowerShell.

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I had to retire an old SharePoint 2013 on-premise farm following a successful migration project. Since this wasn't a wholesale migration, there was a small level of uncertainty whether we moved all the relevant content over. I removed locked all the sites in the farm as read-only and parsed the IIS logs to monitor access. When I was satisfied that I had redirected all the users to the new

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All, This isn't my normal topic for this blog site, but I just saved 60% having my Christmas lights hung by a local landscaper: https://ernieslandscaping.net They are a local landscaping company that I use for pruning and heavy work in my Tri-cities Washington yard. We used them for hanging lights and he did it for less than half what the other local companies were charging. I was so impressed,

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There are two ways to get the most accurate patch level and quickly: Central Admin - System Settings - Servers in farm PowerShell SharePoint Management Shell: (Get-SPFarm).BuildVersion

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When I run this command: Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\server\share\backups -BackupMethod Full -Item "Farm\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications" -Verbose I am receiving this error: FatalError: Object Search Service Application failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the spbackup.log or sprestore.log file located in the backup directory. FaultException: Management

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After some significant maintenance on our on-premise SharePoint farm after a failed cumulative update, our search service would not come back online. All the services pretty much needed to have their services restarted after restoring the front-end and SQL server from a pre-update virtual machine snapshot. I will save you the gory details of all the things that were tried. No solutions offered

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The Add a Page link is missing from the setting gear in a site built with the Project template PROJECTSITE#0 We have a lot of Project sites--sites built with the PROJECTSITE#0 template--in our organization. One of the main drawbacks of this is that it doesn't have a Site Pages library built-in. This prevents the helpful Add a Page link from showing up on the settings gear. There are

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After updating to the May 2017 CU for SharePoint 2013, I could no longer create site collections from Central Admin. I received this error: Unknown server tag 'AdminControls:CreateSiteTooltipBar'. I made a backup copy of the createsite.aspx file location here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\ADMIN then I edited the file in place and removed the

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I tried saving a lightly customized team site as a template but no matter what I did, it failed. I tried it from the site settings. I tried PowerShell: asnp *sh* $Web=Get-SPWeb https://webapp/sites/template $Web.SaveAsTemplate("TeamSiteTemplate10.3","TeamSiteTemplate10.3","TeamSiteTemplate10.3",1) Which failed with this error: Exception calling "SaveAsTemplate" with "4" argument(s): "

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I was experiencing errors rendering Office Apps from my SharePoint farm after attaching a new Office Online Server to he farm. I saw the following error in the browser: Microsoft Word Web App Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document. After some troubleshooting, I found this error in the ULS logs of the Office Online Server (Office Web Apps): No FileSourceId found for

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I have a user that had access to site settings, all content, etc. I double checked her access and it was read only but the permissions check tool showed a panel beneath the site permissions that showed Allow for many categories. She had full control. "The following factors also affect the level of access for" She was added as a Site Collection Administrator. I don't know who would have

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Every few minutes my dedicated search server in SharePoint 2013 would complain with an event ID 6396 Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded: Cache cluster is down, restart the cache cluster and Retry. The cache cluster was up and healthy according to results of Get-CacheHost command restart-CacheCluster didn't help. Here's how I solved it: I cleared the config cache:

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I noticed a number of event IDs occurring hourly in the application event log on one of my App servers: FIMSynchronizationService 6801 The user does not exist or is not unique This occurred with about 30 user profiles out of 3200. I checked the user profiles with a people search. The profiles appeared "blank." They only had the name and login for the users--not the Office, Manager, and other

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