As with the RTM release of SharePoint 2013, Sharepoint 2013 SP1 has alot of prerequisites. This includes server features and additional EXE files that need to be installed before SharePoint will proceed with the install. I created 2x scripts and 1x txt file, they are as follows: Script 1 – Server features. This installs all […]
Today I installed a new SharePoint 2013 Server to add to my existing farm. I installed SQL and all the prerequisites for SharePoint, rebooted a couple of times. After all the installs I installed the April 2014 CU for SharePoint as the second server needs to match the existing one. The install takes a little […]
Today I ran the SharePoint 2013 April 2014 CU. The extraction and installation was successful. Upon running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard after the restart, PSCONFIG failed immediately on step 3 with the following error: This upgrade session has been stopped. Possible causes include the process being terminated abruptly or the OS has rebooted. Please restart […]
MSFT released this CU a few days ago. The download is 1.3Gb like the previous ones. After downloading this update right click on the CU and select “Run As Administrator” The update takes a while to extract and then checks what needs to be updated. The update itself then takes aprox 4-5 hours to install. […]
My SharePoint Server out of the blue started throwing event ID 6398. The error is : Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded: Unable to create a DataCache. SPDistributedCache is probably down.. I ran Get-CacheHost and it was listing an old SharePoint Server plus the new one. Trying to remove it resulted in the famous “CacheHostInfo is null” […]
After I rebuilt my SharePoint Server I moved across one last database. After a restart SharePoint reported that the database was in compatibility mode. I opened up an elevated SharePoint PowerShell and ran the following command: PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force PSConfig went through the steps and got stuck on Step 3. This has […]
I downloaded SP1 for SharePoint 2013 and applied it. After the reboot everything seemed normal. I then ran the products and configuration upgrade and it failed directly on step 2. I enabled all the services it stopped and saw if I could open up my sites. The configuration site opened but when I tried to […]
I migrated SharePoint to a new server with SQL 2012 SP1 and setup backups with DPM. The initial setup went fine as DPM could see the Farm, however after the protection group was setup the backups failed immediately with the following error: Unable to Configure Protection Not a problem, what I have seen from documents […]
After a nice festive season I came back to thousands of errors logged in event viewer for the above error: Seems like this error only started occurring after the recent windows updates released. Never the less you can need to check if Named Pipes is enabled in SQL Configuration and you can run the following […]
I wanted to modify my Sharepoint Protection Group on DPM to backup Sharepoint 2013 so I can do item level restore. When expanding the server and Sharepoint farm I got presented with the following error: So the first thing I did was check my VSS writers, you can do so as follows: VSSAdmin ListWriters Everything […]
Today I encountered the following error on my SharePoint server: “The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob (ID 2d4a706e-165b-4bae-bf2f-e3462fc01f36) threw an exception. More information is included below. Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded: Cache cluster is down, restart the cache cluster and Retry.” To fix this error run the following command from Powershell: Restart-Service AppFabricCachingService Hope it […]
After a few replica’s on SharePoint 2013, DPM backups kept failing with the above error. If you run a consistency check then all is good until the next backup. To fix this error you need to increase the USN Journal, you can do so as follows, run the following PowerShell Command (increase to whatever suits […]
Last 2 days I have encountered the error above, the previous backup on DPM went fine. Checked that space was not an issue, the services were all started, rebooted the SharePoint server as windows updates were applied and still got the error. Simple fix is to do the following: Navigate to C:Program FilesMicrosoft Data Protection […]
Microsoft released RU3 for DPM 2012 SP1. Finally I was able to upgrade the DPM Agent on SharePoint 2013 as I kept getting an error when trying to Protect SQL. The updated agent installed fine, first initial sync when perfect until it finished with the above error. Here are the steps I did to fix […]
Today I came across the following error below logged almost every 2 min in event viewer. The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileImportJob threw an exception. More information is included below. Generic Error. Upon investigation I found that the 2 FIM Services (ForeFront Identity Manager) were disabled in the Services MMC as well as in […]
I upgraded my SharePoint Server to the latest June update today. It is a massive hotfix download 1.8GB. The install is pretty straight forward, after you have downloaded the file you extract it to a folder. I normally open SharePoint Powershell as Administrator and then navigate to the folder where I extracted the CU. Installing […]
Recently I installed SharePoint 2013 Foundation to only realise I needed some of the features in SharePoint Server 2013. I upgraded the server and started running into strange errors as below: 1. Creating folders 2. Removing folders 3. Finding people in SharePoint These issues above caused endless headaches, I tried the following as per MS: […]