There are many tools out there to detect and remove/delete any feature references in your content database when you face ‘Found a missing feature ID=’XXXX’ during SharePoint ugrade . This can be done directly in SQL database – which is not suggested ofcourse. When i am trying to mount and upgrade a MOSS 2007 content…
Tag: sharepoint 2010
Cumulative Updates, SharePoint 2010, Uncategorized
February 2015 CU – SharePoint 2010
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
February 2015 CU is a full server package – meaning no other update is required to fully patch SharePoint to this level. Prereq’s: SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 should be installed. This CU does not include SP2. The KB articles links for December CU: KB 2910904 – SharePoint Foundation 2010 KB 2899558 – SharePoint Server…
SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
Page Layouts button was disabled for a publishing SharePoint page
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
Issue: While trying to update the page layout for any page in SharePoint, I realized that Page Layouts button was disabled! Reason: There can be many reasons for this, but here are the first things to check 1. SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature should be activated at site collection level. 2. SharePoint server publishing feature…
Configuration, Cumulative Updates, Servers, SharePoint 2010
December 2014 CU – SharePoint 2010
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
December 2014 CU is a full server package – meaning no other update is required to fully patch SharePoint to this level. Prereq’s: SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 should be installed. This CU contains fixes released post SP2. The KB articles links for December CU: KB 2899585 – SharePoint Foundation 2010 KB 2899583 – SharePoint…
Powershell, Servers, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
PowerShell script to download all Farm solutions in SharePoint Farm
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
Recently when i was preparing a SharePoint Farm for upgrade which has lot of custom and 3rd party farm solutions, I have to download or some how gather all those .wsp files to move to new server farm. I had rough time gathering all the wsp’s until i stumble upon this script which download all…
Powershell, Servers, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
PowerShell script to perform IISRESET on all servers in SharePoint Farm
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
This is a handy PowerShell script to have for every SharePoint admin. I’m sure, most of you have already had something like this. This script is used to Reset all the Servers in SharePoint farm one after other without logging into each and every server. This comes handy during maintenance or in your Development environment…
SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2010/2013 User Profile Account name shows up wrong Domain name after sync
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
Your Domain name is ‘Domain’ and your FQDN forest name is ‘Company.net’. You set up a user profile sync connection in SharePoint, map all your properties and kick off full sync. Everything goes well, you don’t see any errors. So far good. You pull a random user to verify properties, Manager name does not resolve.…
Configuration, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
PSConfig error at step 3 of 4. Cannot upgrade SharePoint database
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
PSConfig is failing at step 3 of 4, Cannot upgrade SharePoint database. It is failing to upgrade SharePointSearchAdmin database, throwing an Exception: User does not have permission to perform this action Here is the complete error description found in logs at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose)…
Powershell, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
SharePoint Configuration Wizard – Error: Some farm products and patches were not detected on this or other servers
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
Faced this issue after updating SharePoint 2013 farm with December CU 2014. Tried running psconfig and several other things. SharePoint keeps on thinking that some of the binaries are not installed on some of the servers in the farm. Gives you a list of updates missing on servers. “Error: Some farm products and patches were…
SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013
An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. PSConfig error – SharePoint 2010/2013
by Bharath Kumar Arja •
This is one of the many errors I ran into while upgrading SharePoint 2013 farm. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown. Additional exception information: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPUpgradeSession Name=Upgrade was updated by Domain\FarmAccount, in the PSCONFIG (7732) process, on machine Server01. View the tracing…