Fix “Drives are running out of free space” Error in SharePoint Health Analyzer

Problem: SharePoint Health Analyzer in Central Admin site gave the alert banner, “The SharePoint Health Analyzer has detected some critical issues that require your attention. View these issues”. On checking, I found “Drives are running out of free space” and “Drivers are at risk of running out of disk space” errors logged! Also,…

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Event ID 8321: A certificate validation operation took X milliseconds and has exceeded the execution time threshold

Problem:  Event ID 8321 logged multiple times in the SharePoint 2013 Application server’s Event Log, with the message “A certificate validation operation took 1500.8983 milliseconds and has exceeded the execution time threshold. If this continues to occur, it may represent a configuration issue. Please see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=246987 for more details.” and SharePoint pages…

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403 Forbidden Error in SharePoint – Since SQL Server is in Stopped State

In a SharePoint 2010 Sandbox, Central Administration and other SharePoint sites threw an error: 403 FORBIDDEN Verified Site collection Lock settings, IIS Settings (IP, Host name, Bindings) other permission settings. After a while found SQL Server services are in Stopped State from SQL Server Configuration Manager. Tried starting them. After a while…

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Event ID 3351: SQL database login failed. Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON’.

After joining a new server to an existing SharePoint farm found this error logged multiple times in the newly added server. Event Log 3351: SQL database login failed. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON’. Root cause and fix: This is because SharePoint…

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Search Error 10032: Could not create a database session. Context: Application {GUID} Details: The database connection string is not available

SharePoint 2007 Search on a specific WFE returned “Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information.” while in other WFEs search worked perfectly. This happened after I stopped the search service on a specific server and started it on…

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Event ID 6398 and 5586 in SharePoint – Resolution

In a SharePoint Implementation, after provisioning Search Service application, Event log gets filled by these two events every minute: 6398 and 5586. Event ID: 5586.    Unknown SQL Exception 2812 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. Could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.Search_GetRecentStats’. Event ID: 6398 The Execute method…

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This session has exceeded the amount of allowable resources – Infopath form services error

Apparently, to fix this issue, we need to increase the Session state value. I double-checked it by examining event logs and verified it. Event id: 7083 logged multiple times. So, the fix is to increase the session state value. Here is how to do that: Go to Central Administration >> Application Management…

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