Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Problem: While trying to add a new user to SharePoint group, SharePoint 2013 People Picker displayed the error: “Sorry, we’re having trouble reaching the server” Troubleshooting: The server may not have enough resources such as Memory to process the function without timing out. Try adding more memory to your SharePoint 2013 web…
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Problem: SharePoint approval workflow not available! This happened after migrating from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016! Solution: This is due to a workflow feature not activated for the site collection. To resolve this issue, Just Activate the “Workflows” feature for the site collection. Steps in detail: Login to your the target site…
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Problem: On creating a new Site collection in SharePoint 2016, got this error message “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”! On Checking the ULS logs, it revealed detailed error as: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPContentDatabaseCollection.FindBestContentDatabaseForSiteCreation(IEnumerable`1 contentDatabases, Guid siteIdToAvoid, Guid webIdToAvoid, SPContentDatabase…
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One of the exciting new feature in SharePoint 2016 is Minrole. It defines server’s role in the SharePoint 2016 farm, and makes sure all necessary services are running in that server! SharePoint 2016 comes with below Minroles: Single Server Farm Front End Application Distributed Cache Search Custom Change MinRole in SharePoint 2016:…
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Alternate Access Mappings helps to expose a SharePoint web application into different URLs in scenarios such as publishing, load balancing, reverse proxy, etc. Each web application can have up to five different URLs through alternate access mapping, with “Default” zone as mandatory and other optional zones. How to Configure Alternate Access Mapping…
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Internal URL in SharePoint Alternate Access Mapping is used to redirect from one URL to another. Say for E.g. If you want to redirect or transform from “http://portal.crescent.com” into “http://intranet.crescent.com” use this feature! So, you enter “http://portal.crescent.com” in the address bar of your browser, and it takes you to “http://intranet.crescent.com”! How to…
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Requirement: We had to compare certain SharePoint inventories between different environments, such as web applications, content databases, etc. So had to extract and export SharePoint configurations into an XML file. PowerShell Script to Export Web Applications List into XML SharePoint export data to XML Script output: Inventory Web Applications and Its Content…
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Secure Store Service Application in SharePoint Secure store service enables you to securely store credentials required for connecting to external systems and associating those credentials to a specific identity or group of identities. Secure Store Service solves the problem of having to sign into many applications and entering different usernames and passwords….
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Requirement: Get SharePoint Farm ID to apply a third party product license to our SharePoint 2016 environment. How to Get SharePoint Farm ID? SharePoint farm id is a GUID which is uniquely identifies each farm. To get the Farm ID in SharePoint, use this handy PowerShell code. Just open SharePoint 2016 Management Shell…
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SharePoint Designer 2013 is a great free tool from Microsoft to customize SharePoint sites and create workflows. Why should we disable SharePoint designer? Well, In some cases site owners and designers may damage SharePoint with this Powerful utility, and I’ve seen SharePoint designers become SharePoint destroyers! So, to prevent irreversible damages to…
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