SharePoint 2013 SP1 and Heartbleed
As many have noted, SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 downloads were pulled. This is due to a potential issue with upgrading from Service Pack 1 to any future update. This does not impact day-to-day...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 Re-Released
SharePoint 2013 SP1 has been re-released with updated binaries that support future updates. The links to the ‘v2′ SP1 can be found in the previous SP1 post, SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1. This new SP1...
View ArticleSharePointBAC 1.1.1 Release
SharePointBAC is a set of PowerShell cmdlets for managing and reporting on SharePoint Farm backups, created by Sean McDonough. This update provides a fix for reporting when the Start and/or Finish time...
View ArticleSharePoint Database Availability Group Cmdlets
The SharePoint 2013 April 2014 Cumulative Update includes three new SQL Availability Group cmdlets: Get-AvailabilityGroupStatus Add-DatabaseToAvailabilityGroup Remove-DatabaseFromAvailabilityGroup...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Release of Nauplius.SharePoint.BlobCache 1.8
This is a major “behind the scenes” release, with some new additions for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. In the short-lived 1.6.1 release, a new setting for SharePoint 2013 was added, debugMode....
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 April 2014 CU Claims Conversion Bug
There is a fatal bug in the April 2014 Cumulative Update as well as MS14-022 for SharePoint 2013 when attempting to use the Convert-SPWebApplication cmdlet. With this cmdlet came a large code base...
View ArticleMS14-022 Known Issues
There are a few known issues with the security update, MS14-022 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2952166)). Most of these issues have been observed in...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 June 2014 Cumulative Updates
The June 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 has been released. SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880975 SharePoint Server 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880972...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 June 2014 Cumulative Updates
SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2881063 SharePoint Server 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2881061 Project Server 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2881062 Office Web...
View ArticleWorkaround for April 2014 CU and MS14-022 Double Encoding Bug
The April 2014 Cumulative Update and MS14-022 introduced a “double encoding” issue that caused search results with %5C (the “\” character) to become double encoded (represented as “%255″). This caused...
View ArticleDebugging SharePoint Slide deck
I presented Debugging SharePoint at the June Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group last Thursday. Below is the slide deck from the presentation. Yes, we had a few Microsoft employees present and live...
View ArticleHyper-V Private Networks for SharePoint
Have you ever wanted a mobile SharePoint platform, but couldn’t afford Azure or other “cloud” platforms, yet could afford a 32GB laptop with a secondary SSD drive for Hyper-V? Then this post is for...
View ArticleConfiguring SharePoint with PowerShell
Configuring SharePoint with PowerShell is quite easy, rather than running the Configuration Wizard post-installation. The primary advantage is to give you control over the Administration database. This...
View ArticleSharePoint with Apache mod_proxy
The Apache Software Foundation provides a reverse proxy module named mod_proxy and mod_ssl (which extends functionality into SSL). This is a non-authenticating reverse proxy similar to function to...
View ArticleSharePoint Default Timeouts
Timeouts, especially unknown timeouts, can cause a lot of headaches. So I’ve started compiling SharePoint default timeouts in the “current” version of SharePoint (that is to say, I’ll do my best effort...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 July 2014 Cumulative Updates
The July 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2013 has been released. Note that CUs will now be released on a monthly basis, rather than bi-monthly. SharePoint Foundation:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 July 2014 Cumulative Updates
The July 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 has been released. SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2883026 SharePoint Server 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2883005...
View ArticleSharePoint ASP.NET Compilation Errors (CS0016)
I encountered a rather frustrating issue with SharePoint 2013. Like most farms, this farm has a specific Domain User running the IIS Application Pool handling Web Applications. These users had a...
View ArticleUnable to provision the Claims to Windows Token Service
The Claims to Windows Token Service is stopped by default. Typically, starting this service is easy. In fact, I’ve never come across a situation where it didn’t “just start”, until now! In this thread...
View ArticleThe Expense of Application Pools
Microsoft’s current recommendation for SharePoint is to leverage a single Web Application and as few Application Pools as possible. This is due to the overhead of not only each Web Application...
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