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  • SharePoint 2013 “Sorry, this site hasn’t been shared with you”

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    This rather annoying message kept coming up on our on-premise (well on-Azure) SharePoint 2013 farm when we tried to create a new subsite of any kind.  After a fair amount of beating around and finding nothing around to indicate the cause, I eventually tried adding the current user to the Web Application User Policy… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 : Configuring an on-premise farm for Apps

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    At Ridgian we’ve stood-up an on-premise SharePoint 2013 Farm.  Well actually it’s running in Windows Azure under an extension to our own AD and one thing we wanted to test and run through is configuring the Farm for Apps.  Basically setting up our own App Store. Now TechNet have a an article  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx which is… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 : “The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component”

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    I came across this very annoying message when provisioning the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application recently, and interestingly it occurred on two farms on the same network.  Both were brand new stand-ups a Test and a Production farm.  Both were two-server farms, a SharePoint and  a SQL Server database.  The message appears when you… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 PerformancePoint Database Dropdown Empty

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    When configuring PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2013, I struggled for a while with two problems when trying to create a Data Source for in the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer: No matter what server name I entered I didn’t get an error. The database dropdown was always empty, irrespective of whatever server name was entered. After many… more …

  • … one of those epic trips …

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    Our family has a history of what we call ‘epics’. These are those trips which on the face of it, seem simple and straightforward, but in actual fact go so horribly wrong that you wonder why you bothered in the first place. I suppose my current trip to Seattle is not such a disaster… more …

  • Where is link to Design Manager

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    I am finally getting around to looking at the whole branding piece for SharePoint 2013 and I was following this MSDN Article this morning and noticed that I couldn’t see any link to the Design Manager in Site Settings as the article appeared to allude to.  I did notice however that the article mentioned publishing… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 Hosted On Windows Azure – Random Errors

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    I’ve recently built a complete SharePoint 2013 installation on Windows Azure consisting of 3 servers: SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps and SQL Server. No resilience built in, as it’s only for testing and R&D. I found that the farm kept experiencing timeout errors, random errors which couldn’t be cleared and then would suddenly just… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 – Index lookup failed to work since no active index cell was available

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    Got this error in the ULS logs when I went to run a Full Crawl on my Single Server SharePoint 2013 installation – well three server really (SharePoint, Office Web Apps and Database).  At the same time I was getting a warning triangle against my Index Partition and for some reason against my Admin… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 – Office Web Apps Preview Not Showing

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    After configuring my SharePoint 2013 Farm and also configuring Office Web Apps 2013 I had created the binding between the two farms, but I was not getting at ‘Previews’ come up when I was clicking on the “…” icon next to a document.  I was also not seeing any preview when viewing Search Results… more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …