Solving SharePoint Issues - Eric Schrader
Microsoft Azure Cloud Architect/Developer. Tips for SharePoint, AWS, PowerShell, SPFX, TypeScript, jQuery, XSLT, HTML and Security
Day to day issues and support for Administrators of SharePoint
Today, I was hit with a SharePoint error on a developers VM when I tried to create a new Site Collection in Central Admin: Sorry, something went wrong The trial period for this product has expired. When I tried to view a teamsite homepage, I received this error: Sorry, something went wrong The “SiteFeedWebPart” Web … Read more
A week ago, my wildcard SSL certificate expired on GoDaddy. It was automatically purchased, but I still had to validate my domain and download a new IIS CER certificate request file. My old post from a few years ago has some good info on certs, the file types, etc. https://eschrader.com/2014/09/23/sharepoint-2013-iis7-nlb-ssl-certificates-and-godaddy/ This is a quick guide. … Read more
Big changes have been happening with External User sharing for SharePoint Online over the past few months now that Azure Active Directory Business to Business (Azure AD B2B) is now generally available. Azure AD B2B allows you to share Office 365 content and line of business applications to users outside your organization. If you are … Read more
One common request when working with SharePoint sites is having a consistent navigation across multiple site collections. If you are using a Publishing Portal site template, you can use the Managed Navigation for your Global Navigation (or top navigation). This also supports drop downs. I did a quick test and it appears to support highlighting … Read more
Summary My farm content deployment jobs had been working, but all of a sudden stopped one day. The end fix was to edit a Central Admin web.config file upload size on the target WFE servers. Issue I was seeing the following errors in my ULS logs after 23 minutes of packing up just under 1gb … Read more
I have been searching for a way to rapidly create standalone Developer SharePoint 2013 standalone VM’s joined to a central domain for our in-house developers. Our team has created 60+ SharePoint VMs on Azure and continue to create about 10 per month. We are beginning to treat our VMs needing hours of repair like cattle, … Read more
I have been searching for a way to rapidly create standalone Developer SharePoint 2013 standalone VM’s joined to a central domain for our in-house developers. Our team has created 60+ SharePoint VMs on Azure and continue to create about 10 per month. We are beginning to treat our VMs needing hours of repair like cattle, … Read more
This is the first post in a series for creating a Linux host with Ansible to control Windows machines and install SharePoint. Let me preface this with I have no clue how far I will get. I expect this to take a few weeks if it’s possible. Ansible seems to be growing, and this all … Read more
This is the first post in a series for creating a Linux host with Ansible to control Windows machines and install SharePoint. Let me preface this with I have no clue how far I will get. I expect this to take a few weeks if it’s possible. Ansible seems to be growing, and this all … Read more
If you are a SharePoint admin or use, you have probably seen this error message on your SharePoint 2013 MySite Newsfeed: “We’re still collecting the latest news. You may see more if you try again a little later.” Hopefully this article will help explain a few common scenarios I have ran into, and how to … Read more