Troubleshooting SharePoint

24 Jan 2016

SharePoint Updates, Ikea Furniture, and Plastic model Airplanes (e.g. read the instructions)

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

Yesterday when running the Post setup configuration executable (psconfig.exe) I encountered the following happy-happy joy-joy moments. I hadn’t created the Service Connection Point and the psconfig was failing, the log was telling me that I needed the connection point

01/23/2016 20:32:21  16  WRN            Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The object LDAP://CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products,CN=System,DC=Tailspintoys,DC=com doesn't exist in the directory.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceConnectionPoint.Ensure(String serviceBindingInformation)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()

01/23/2016 20:32:21 16 WRN Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The object LDAP://CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products,CN=System,DC=Tailspintoys,DC=com doesn't exist in the directory.

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceConnectionPoint.Ensure(String serviceBindingInformation)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()

24 Jan 2016

Service connection points are mandatory in SharePoint 2016

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration | 0

Public service announcement : This is not true any longer, was only true when working with Beta2 and upgrading to RC Yesterday night, while doing my own SharePoint Saturday (night), I took my first stab at upgrading SharePoint 2016 … Read More

23 Jan 2016

SharePoint 2016 Release Candidate is running wild!

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration | 0

The SharePoint 2016 Release candidate has been released from it’s pen over there in Redmond. No need to uninstall Beta 2, you can upgrade in place. here’s the download to the current release : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51493 here’s how to … Read More

23 Jan 2016

January CU breaks stuff and false alarms

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

If you work at a company that mandates Microsoft Security patches get installed on all servers, like some major health care companies and law firms have a tendency of mandating, then you might have encountered this months happy-happy, joy-joy of … Read More

15 Jan 2016

Getting Distributed Cache started on SharePoint 2016 Beta 2

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

First of all I’d like to thank mvan for the post located here: http://www.sharepointconsultant.ch/2013/03/07/adding-a-local-sharepoint-2013-development-server-as-a-cache-host-to-appfabrics-cache-cluster/ please read this before continuing, as the following post assumes you’ve read mvan’s issue. The distributed cache would not start During a recent install of SharePoint … Read More

9 Jan 2016

“There are no products affected by this package installed on this system.”

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

Grey wizard or PSconfig Sometimes when your farm gets out of wack, as SharePoint farms with multiple admins tend to do, from time to time, you’ll receive a message that some of your patches are missing/required. So, you’ll click on … Read More

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