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SCOM 2012 R2 and SQL 2014
As with the previous post where I upgraded SCCM SQL from 2008 to 2014, I did the same with System Center Operations Manager. You need to make sure that SQL 2008 is on SP2 and that SQL 2012 is on SP1 or the upgrade will fail on the checks. After I upgraded these I...
SCCM 2012 R2 CU1 and SQL 2014
Today I got my hands on SQL 2014. I decided to upgrade my System Centre Configuration Manager Server. It took a couple of hours as SQL 2008 R2 needed to be on SP2 and SQL 2012 R2 needed to be on SP1. After 2.4GB's of updates the SQL 2014 checks passed. The upgrade...
SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 (Updated)
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...
Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded: Unable to create a DataCache. SPDistributedCache is probably down..
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...
PSConfig Stuck at 10%
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...
SharePoint 2013 SP1 Upgrade failure
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...
DPM 2012 SP1 Backing up SQL 2012 Database Error
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...
SQL 2008 R2 SP1 installation failure
Installing of SCOM 2012 has some requirements and one of them being SQL. I ran the install for SQL and when I tried to install SP1 for SQL 2008 R2 it failed with the following error: " A failure was detected for a previous installation, patch, or repair for instance...
SharePoint 2013: Unified Logging Service Event ID:2159
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...
SharePoint 2013 – Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository.
Today I am fixing all warnings/errors that have occurred on my SharePoint server, here is a new warning encountered: Share Point 2013 - Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl...