by edward | Mar 4, 2014 | SharePoint 2013
After I rebuilt my SharePoint Server I moved across one last database. After a restart SharePoint reported that the database was in compatibility mode. I opened up an elevated SharePoint PowerShell and ran the following command: PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b...
by edward | Mar 2, 2014 | SharePoint 2013
I downloaded SP1 for SharePoint 2013 and applied it. After the reboot everything seemed normal. I then ran the products and configuration upgrade and it failed directly on step 2. I enabled all the services it stopped and saw if I could open up my sites. The...
by edward | Mar 2, 2014 | SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012
I migrated SharePoint to a new server with SQL 2012 SP1 and setup backups with DPM. The initial setup went fine as DPM could see the Farm, however after the protection group was setup the backups failed immediately with the following error: Unable to Configure...
by edward | Jan 6, 2014 | SharePoint 2013, SQL 2008 / 2008 R2
After a nice festive season I came back to thousands of errors logged in event viewer for the above error: Seems like this error only started occurring after the recent windows updates released. Never the less you can need to check if Named Pipes is enabled in SQL...
by edward | Dec 5, 2013 | SharePoint 2013
Today I am fixing all warnings/errors that have occurred on my SharePoint server, here is a new warning encountered: Share Point 2013 – Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to...
by edward | Dec 5, 2013 | SharePoint 2013, DPM 2012 R2
I wanted to modify my Sharepoint Protection Group on DPM to backup Sharepoint 2013 so I can do item level restore. When expanding the server and Sharepoint farm I got presented with the following error: So the first thing I did was check my VSS writers, you can do so...
