Troubleshooting SharePoint

28 Apr 2013

Applying updates to SharePoint

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration | 0

After running the exe to apply a cumulative update to your build, rather than using the gui based SharePoint Products and Technologies Wizard, use the SharePoint Management powershell console and call this command:

psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force

1	psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force

followed by Install-SPApplicationContent, at the bare minimum. The best way … Read More

21 Apr 2013

Secure Store throwing error that can not contact…

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

If you are receiving an error that reads, an error has occurred, contact your admin, and if you’ve already contacted yourself, then this is occurring when you’ve clicked Generate a key from Application Management > manage service applications > Secure … Read More

14 Apr 2013

Exporting and Importing between Farms

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration | 0

The management shell is the only way to import a site without, restoring from a backup, or recovering data from an unattached database. Here’s what you do to copy sites around: login into your source server with an account that has … Read More

7 Apr 2013

Unextending a web application, why you cant choose intranet from the drop down

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration | 0

Once a web application has been extended into a zone, the option to choose that zone disappears from the drop down, off the extend web applications pop-up, and is no longer available or shown in the drop down. In order … Read More

6 Apr 2013

Configuring User Profile Service, Starting Synch, and Creating SharePoint Service Applications for SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 1

First off, I’d just like to apologize to anyone who used this before it was edited and received an over-privileged farm. I would then like to point you to the disclaimer page. This post assumes that you’ve installed the SharePoint … Read More

Monthly Archives: April 2013