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SharePoint 2016 Hosting Spain – HostForLIFE.eu :: How To Solve SharePoint 2016 Error Installation
Feb 10th
In this post we will discuss how to resolve “Configuration Failed Error” while installing SharePoint 2016. This error usually comes when you run your SharePoint product configuration wizard and after giving your database details. This error also comes if you are trying to run create configuration database by using SharePoint 2015 Management Shell.
The Error
The error comes when we tried to run the New-SPConfigurationDatbase command from the Management Shell. The full command was like this:
New-SPConfigurationDatabase –DatabaseName SharePoint_Config –DatabaseServer WIN-JC2B1V15KM5 –AdministrationContentDatabaseName SharePoint_Content –Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString Qwerty@12345 –AsPlaintext –Force) –FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -localserverrole SingleServerFarm
And the error came as like below:
The Solution
The account which we were using does have proper permission, so it was not able to create the configuration database. The below permission is required to create configuration database:
- Dbcreator
- SecurityAdmin
- SysAdmin
When we gave proper permission and then try to re-run the PowerShell command, it runs successfully and also when we run the product and configuration wizard, we would not get the issue.
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SharePoint 2013 Hosting UK – How To Add Links To The Top On SharePoint 2013 Site
Dec 23rd
Here we will see how you can add links in top link bar in SharePoint 2013. There are two ways to do that, one is to directly we can add links in the home page as well as you can add link to top link bat from the Site Setting page.
#1 Approach
Step 1
Open your SharePoint 2013 site, then in the top link bar click on EDIT LINKS as shown in the fig below:
Step 2
You can drag and drop any link to the top link bar where it has written “Drag and drop link here”. Suppose I want to give a link item ico then I can drag and drop like below:
Then click on Save, it will save the link.
Step 3
Else you can click on +link icon as shown in the fig below:
This will open the Add a link dialog box and there put the details like below:
Once you Save, it will appear like below:
#2nd Approach
Step 1
Open your Site, then from the Settings icon click on Site Settings. Then in the Site Settings page, click on Navigation under Look and Feel section.
Then in the Navigation settings page go to the Structural Navigation: Editing and Sorting section and then select the Global Navigation and then click on Add Link as shown in the fig below:
Step 2
Then in the Navigation Link dialog box, click on Title and URL as shown in the fig below:
Step 3
Then click on OK and then Ok to close the Navigation Settings page. Then the link will appear like below:
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Sharepoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE.eu :: Create a Blog with SharePoint 2013
Feb 27th
This guide will show you how to create a blog in SharePoint 2013. This topic contains only brief information about Sharepoint 2013 Hosting, if you want to be more familiar with Sharepoint 2013 , you should try HostForLife.eu.
1) First, You must Log into SharePoint.
2) In the Quick Launch bar, click on Site Contents.
3) Click on new subsite.
4) Fill in the details of your new subsite the same way you would for a new site: title, description, URL, language and template.
Note: You may wonder where all the templates went between SharePoint 2010 and 2013.
5) If you wish to have the same user and content permissions as the parent site, click the Use same permissions as parent site radio button. If you wish this subsite to have different permissions than other parts of your site, click on Use unique permissions.
Determine if this subsite will show up in the Quick Launch bar and top link bar of the parent site by selecting Yes or No.
Choose to have the parent site top link bar as this subsite’s top link bar by clicking on Yes, otherwise click on No.
6) Finnaly, your new blog site will be successfully created.
SharePoint Hosting – HostForLIFE.eu :: Configure SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application
Feb 5th
In this article we will show how to create search service application in SharePoint. From central administration home page click on manage service applications. Click new icon form ribbon bar and click on “search service application”
From the opened screen enter the name for search service application , choose search service account “service account that we used for configure all services” , choose or create a new application pool that will used by search admin web service also do the same step for application Pool for Search Query and Site Settings Web Service then click OK.
Go to SharePoint Central Administration, and then select Application Management.
Then select Manage service applications.
Select search service application and then click manage on the ribbon on the top.
In the left hand bar click content source.
Then click on the down arrow next to the local SharePoint sites and select start full crawl.
Wait until the status becomes Idle.
European Sharepoint Hosting :: Setting up Sharepoint Alerts
Oct 28th
On some occasion, we can encounter the fact that the Sharepoint Alert that we setup does not work. Even though we have set this up properly on Sharepoint Central Administration, it does not fire the alerts properly. Why can this happen?
This article will discuss the scenario that you may encounter and the solution offered to tackle this problem. We certainly hope it will benefit you who are using Sharepoint as a hosted solution/service. In case you are looking for European Sharepoint Hosting Provider, you can take a look at HostForLife.eu. Price starts just from as low as €6.00/month and you can have your Sharepoint site hosted with reasonable features!
Scenario:
We have been working with a MOSS site which has three environments; development, staging and live. We have a number of custom workflows which were created using Workflow Foundation and InfoPath for the forms. Each of the workflow tasks should automatically send out a task notification email whenever the task is reassigned to a different person. This has always worked fine on staging and live environments, but we have never seen them working in the development environment. Interestingly all the standard scheduled alert emails were working fine (i.e. if you were to subscribe to a list), it was just the task notifications from the workflows which were not.
Solution:
First thing we did was go through the usual process of checking the log files and windows event viewer for errors which yielded no significant results. Next thing we checked were the email settings for the site in Central Admin which again all looked fine. The development site is using local SMTP, so we checked if the emails were getting generated in the ‘DROP’ folder in the mailroot. The scheduled alert emails were getting generated in here fine, but the task notifications were not. We also checked that the Timer service was running correctly and under the right account in the windows Services, which it was.
The following four tables in the content database contain entries related to the alert emails:
– ImmedSubscriptions (Stores the alerts for emails that are sent immediately when changes occur)
– SchedSubscriptions (Stores daily or weekly scheduled alerts)
– EventLog (This table contains events for which only non-immediate alerts exist)
– EventCache (This table contains a list of site events for which users have requested alerts. WSS inserts events into this table as they occur)
We checked in these table to see if information about the alerts were being inserted and discovered that in the ImmedSubscriptions and EventLog tables there were actually entries which were related to the live server, as we believe the content database had been restored from a live copy a while ago, and the references obviously had not been updated automatically. So we cleared out each each one of these tables and re-tested the workflow. This made a bit of progress as we could now see that the alert information was getting inserted correctly into the EventCache and EventLog tables. However the ImmedSubscriptions table was still not receiving information about the alert.
After some frustrated iisresets and restarts of the timer job service, we were still having no luck whatsoever at getting these alert emails working so we reverted back to trusty Google for some more answers. We found this blog, which although not directly related, provided the winning answer. Updating the alert templates. After running the following stsadm command on the development machine, the task notification alert emails automagically started working again woohoo!
stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url http://testserver -f “c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\alerttemplates.xml” -LCID 2057
So we can assume that the problem transpired from a restore of the content databased from a different server which somewhere along the line maintained some references to the original server. A clear out of the relevant databases and re-registering the alert templates seemed to solve the problem for me.
Hopefully this comes in handy for somebody else, as we spent many a frustrated hour over this one 🙂
