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dec 31

Frits Hendriks on 31-12-2012 21:43

After upgrading to SP2013 I ran into some issues with Visio Services. Whenever I opened a visio VDW file to be opened in the browser an error popped up stating that the server could not process the request.

The eventviewer on the server showed the following event info:

Failed to generate Vector diagram for file /sites/photos/Brochures/Test - sp2013-upgrade-process.vdw

Error : Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeCompatibilityException: There is a compatibility range mismatch between the Web server and database "WSS_Content_01", and connections to the data have been blocked to due to this incompatibility. This can happen when a content database has not been upgraded to be within the compatibility range of the Web server, or if the database has been upgraded to a higher level than the web server. The Web server and the database must be upgraded to the same version and build level to return to compatibility range.

We checked the database version and the web server version, they matched. So it was not a version difference problem. Further down the eventviewer another event showed up telling us that one of the service account did not have CREATE TABLE permissions on the content database. So obviously, we granted the permission to our service account en voila, still not working. But this got us on a different track, so we decided to grant the service account DBOwner permissions on the database. This was the correct action, the visio file could now be opened correctly.

They only problem we now had was having granted to much permissions for a service account on the database. So trial and error to see which permissions were needed at least to get the visio drawing opened. It turned out to assign the account the SPDataAccess permission in SQL. We are now able to open the visio drawing in the browser.

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dec 22

SharePoint 2013 finally up and running

Frits Hendriks on 22-12-2012 20:40

As you all can see, I've finally upgraded my farm to SharePoint 2013.

It was not as simple as I would have liked it but in the end we got it working properly.

Hopefully over the coming weeks I can plat with it some more and check out all the fun new features that SharePoint 2013 has to offer. Currently working on getting Office WebApps to work together with SharePoint. Big Fun :D

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okt 30

Overview of Exchange Online Administrator Roles

Frits Hendriks on 30-10-2012 11:45

Working on my 70-323 exam for Office365 I could never find a simple overview of all the Admin Groups in Exchange Online and which roles were appointed to the different groups.

So here it is:

Name	Roles	Members (OOTB)
Discovery Management	§ Legal Hold § Mailbox Search
Help Desk	§ Reset Password § User Options § View-Only Recipients
Helpdesk Admins_XXXXX
Organization Management	§ Audit Logs § Distribution Groups § Federated Sharing § Information Rights Management § Journaling § Legal Hold § Mail Recipient Creation § Mail Recipients § Mail Tips § Message Tracking § Migration § Move Mailboxes § Organization Client Access § Organization Configuration § Organization Transport Settings § Recipient Policies § Remote and Accepted Domains § Reset Password § Retention Management § Role Management § Security Group Creation and Membership § Transport Rules § UM Mailboxes § UM Prompts § Unified Messaging § User Options § View-Only Audit Logs § View-Only Configuration § View-Only Recipients	Company Administrator
Recipient Management	§ Distribution Groups § Mail Recipient Creation § Mail Recipients § Message Tracking § Migration § Move Mailboxes § Recipient Policies § Reset Password
Records Management	§ Audit Logs § Journaling § Message Tracking § Retention Management § Transport Rules
TenantAdmins_XXXXX
UM Management	§ UM Mailboxes § UM Prompts § Unified Messaging
View-only Organization Management	§ View-only Configuration § View-only Recipients

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aug 06

HowTo: PeoplePicker

Frits Hendriks on 6-8-2012 11:22

After experiencing some issues with out peoplepicker I was sent the following blog post.

Part 1:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rajank/archive/2009/09/01/all-you-want-to-know-about-people-picker-in-sharepoint-functionality-configuration-troubleshooting-part-1.aspx

Part 2:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rajank/archive/2009/09/20/all-you-want-to-know-about-people-picker-in-sharepoint-functionality-configuration-troubleshooting-part-2.aspx

It has a very clear and good description of how the peoplepicker works, how it should be configured and a good deal of troubleshooting tips. It helped me a lot solving our issue.

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jul 31

No Search results using oneway trust for SharePoint

Frits Hendriks on 31-7-2012 14:16

After having rebuild our customer's Search Service Application which was not working correctly we came across the problem that no resulta were returned using the customer's domain accounts. When using the SharePoint domain useraccount resulta were shown as normal.

There's an oneway trust between the SharePoint domain and the customer domain. When using this configuration the acl's that the search app stores in the search database are not stored in the correct format. They should be stored in an formsbased format so user permissions from the user domain can be read correctly.

So how to achieve this??

Start the SharePoint management shell (powershell) and use the commands below to set the correct property which stores the acl's in the correct format.

$SearchApp = Get-SPServiceApplication %searchGUID%

$SearchApp.setproperty(“ForceClaimACLs”, 1)

$SearchApp.GetProperty("ForceClaimACLs")

After the script has run succesful perform a full crawl to get all the resulta set correctly. After the full crawl the users from the external domain should get results back again.

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jul 20

How to get Thumbnail previews for Documents in Sharepoint, Without FAST :-)

Frits Hendriks on 20-7-2012 9:55

One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 Search is the ability to view thumbnail previews of Word and PowerPoint documents in the browser. This can be achieved by installing Office Web Apps and Fast Search Server. Office Web Apps is responsible for creating the thumbnails for all the Word and PowerPoint files in the Farm. Then, using the Fast Search Center Template, the thumbnails are shown when searching for files (there must of course be Word or PowerPoint files in the results.)

So.. if Office Web Apps is used for the thumbnails, and basically Fast doesn’t add anything to this since the FAST Search Center Template is available in SharePoint even without having FAST installed, it must be possible to get thumbnails working without FAST installed.

With FAST installed the FAST Search Center is being used vs. the Enterprise Search Center in any other setup. Sowhat’s the difference between the FAST Search Center and the Enterprise for it to show the Thumbnails?? It all comes down to the XSL of the Search Results Core webpart. Getting the XSL from the FAST Search Center template and using it in a Enterprise Search Center template makes the thumbnails appear. Some editing needed in XSL though.

So how so setup??

• Make sure you have Office WebApps installed and working.

• Create a new Enterprise Search Center in your SharePoint Farm

• On the Search Results page, edit the Search Results Core WebPart

• Open the XSL editor, when greyed out uncheck “Use Location Visualization”

• Replace the XSL code with the code here

• Close the editor, save, check in and Publish the page.

• Perform a full crawl and do a search.

• It might take some time for the thumbnails to appear, they need to be cached before use.

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jul 18

All people view in SharePoint 2010

Frits Hendriks on 18-7-2012 9:20

Recently I came across another feaure "missing" from SharePoint 2010 compared to SharePoint 2007: the all people view.

But as it appears the function is still there, only the link on the sites aren't there any longer. So how to still get the All People List??

Simply add the following behind the Url of the site you're on.

_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0&FilterField1=ContentType&FilterValue1=Person

(ie. http://www.fhnl.nl/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0&FilterField1=ContentType&FilterValue1=Person)

This gives the All People list we are used to so much, at least I am.

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mei 02

Multiple Mysite Hosts in SharePoint 2010

Frits Hendriks on 2-5-2012 11:28

Is it possible to have multiple MySite hosts in one SharePoint Farm, and thus giving people a different layout depending on the Mysite host they are "member" of??

Sadly it is not really possible. One of our customers asked if it is possible to have a different Mysite masterpage for people that are member of a certain department. And not onty their own masterpage but also the Root site masterpage.

We looked into this and tried setting up a second mysitehost. Sadly this was the start of the difficulties.

When creating a new mysite host a second User Profile Service is needed. This UPS will crawl accounts in the requested OU (if the accounts are in a seperate OU) or new exclusion rules can be applied. So we solved the first issue on how to seperate the different users, but only on paper.

A new UPS requires a new server. It is simply impossible to have multiple UPS running on the same server. The forefront identity management service cannot be connected to multiple User Profile Service applications.

So we added the extra server, setup a second UPS, started it, worked like a charm. Then we went on to setup a second mysite host. A new webapp was created, a new mysite host site collection was placed in it and voila.. We had a second Mysite Host.

But still not solved the problem, since users were not correctly redirected to the correct mysite. So how to point the users to the correct Mysite host??

Using the webapps service connections we had to choose which UPS is to be used for which web application. And as you can tell already, it now depends on which site your on, to which mysite you are redirected.

Example: We had the NL site setup to use the primary NL mysites, and the UK site setup to use the UK Mysites. When user A was logged in onto the NL site and clicked "My Site" in the menu he was redirected to his NL mysite. As requested. BUT.. (big but) when User A was logged in onto the UK site and clicked "MySite" he was redirected to the UK mysite, and not the NL mysite he already has. So now he had two mysites!!

Finally we came across some information on the internet: Trusted Mysite Host Locations. We did not look into that before. Here you can point users to different mysites by creating audiences. So simple.. probably the reason we overlooked it.

So to answer the question we asked before: Is it possible to have multiple Mysite Hosts??

Yes it is, keep in mind that multiple UPS applications are needed. And Trusted Mysite Host locations with audiences are needed to point the users to their correct Mysite.

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apr 25

Metadata service cannot be filled using powershell

Frits Hendriks on 25-4-2012 18:39

Installing the Microsoft Productivity Hub for a customer we came across the error message that the Managed Metadata Service is not provisioned. While, as we checked earlier, the metadata was indeed provisioned.

We used the autospinstaller script to install and configure our farm.

On the internet I came across the following article which proves an addendum on the original autospinstaller script:

http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/workitem/17200

When using powershell to provision the metadata service the DefaultkeywordsTaxonomy property is not set correct. Therefore when using a script to add values into the existing Taxonomy and when the script checks for an existing metadata service by checking the value of the DefaultKeywordsTaxonomy, the script will fail.

As described in the article, there are several ways to resolve this, one is by recreating the Metadata service and Metadata Service proxy by use of the UI, another way is by running a powershell script which recreates the metadata service and metadata proxy. Keep in mind to add the two extra properties as described in the article.

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apr 18

PSConfig Fails with Missing / Required Error Message After Applying CU or Service Pack in SharePoint 2010

Frits Hendriks on 18-4-2012 10:15

With thanx to Steve Peschka (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/) for the article:

I had this happen with a CU recently, and I saw someone that had the same problem with SP1. You download and install some patch - a CU or service pack. The final step after installation is to run psconfig on each server in the farm. However, psconfig tells you that it can't proceed because one or more of the servers are missing a required patch. It shows the server name, the patch name, and it says "Missing/Required". The thing it says is missing though is the exact patch you just got done installing. Frustrating, yes?

Fortunately, Sam from the UK Premier Field Engineering team had a work-around that fixed it for me, so I'm sharing it here on his behalf in the hopes that it will help you. Try running the command Get-SPProduct –local on the server that says it's missing the required patch. Doing so forces a timer job to run that does some version fix up. This solved the problem for me; hope it helps you if you find yourself in this position.

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