Author: Bharath Arja

An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. PSConfig error – SharePoint 2010/2013

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 […]

System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException – PSConfig – SharePoint 2010/2013

‘An exception of type System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException was thrown. Additional exception information: There was no endpoint listening at http://localhost:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details. After installing a cumulative update for fixing a bug in our SharePoint 2013 farm, I […]

Hidden users list in SharePoint

SharePoint has a hidden users list which stores the user information. This list exists for every site collection. It is only visible for administrators and there will not be any link directly provided other than typing in the Url. http://sharepointsite/sites/site/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx http://sharepointsite/sites/site/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx If a user is deleted from the site, this hidden list still holds the […]

Best Practices for designing a Browser based Infopath form

There is no rule book explaining Best Practices for designing a Browser based InfoPath forms. Most of the times performance of the form depends on other factors such as volume of data, number of fields, design, overall farm performance, number of external connections, data rendering in the form(post backs) etc. In this blog I am going […]

Cannot find scheduled task in Task Scheduler – Windows Server 2008

You have a PowerShell script which needs to be run once everyday. After all the testing, you decide you schedule it as a task in ‘Task Scheduler’ in Windows server. Task is scheduled, everything is setup. You come back next day and couldn’t find scheduled task. You find Task Status, Active Tasks and Overview of Task […]

Explorer view of document library opens up empty

User has contribute access on the document library and is able to view all the documents in Browser. When user tries to open the library in Explorer view, it comes up empty, does not show any documents. Web client service is started in client computer and everything check is good. Same user was able to […]

Read, View and Limited Access in SharePoint

Read, View and Limited Access levels in SharePoint appears almost. But there are significant differences. Read permission level: If a user has Read access to a library, he should be able to browse through the library, open the document to view it either in office client installed in users computer or through office web apps. […]

Infopath error using GetUserProfileByName method after converting to Claims or migrating to SP2013

When migrating your SharePoint 2010 InfoPath forms to SharePoint 2013 or while changing your classic web application to claims based web application, all the InfoPath forms which accesses user profile services(GetUserProfileByName method) fails with authentication errors. In claims based web application user name is prefixed with “0#.w|” .User name in classic mode is “domain\username” but […]

PowerShell command to find name of list

Here is a simple PowerShell command to find name of list when you have the GUID. This can be handy when you are trying to clear up you crawl errors Get-SPWeb http://yourweb/site/ -Limit ALL| %{$_.Lists} | ?{$_.ID -eq “GUID goes here”}| ft Title, ParentWebURL