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SharePoint 2010 2013 Timeout Was Unable to Fetch Children for Node Value Cannot Be Null

INTRODUCTION Out of nowhere my SharePoint 2013 site (and has happened on my other 2010 farm, too) is timing out on a particular sub-site. The whole site still loads but when I go to this particular sub-site, I just got timeout. After an intensive research I found out that when you publish a page in […]

Displaying Search Results for SharePoint 2010 2013 Across Different Farms

INTRODUCTION My client runs two different Intranets. Each Intranet is dedicated to a particular department and runs off a separate farm. The farms however live within the same Active Directory (eg. company.local). There is a requirement to display Intranet 1 search results in Intranet 2. For the purpose of the clarity of this article please […]

Insert Picture or Link From SharePoint 2010/2013, Nothing Happens, Pop-up Not Displayed

INTRODUCTION I have a SharePoint 2010 site running in 2013 farm (ie. 2010 mode). Somehow the “Insert Picture from SharePoint” or “Insert Link from SharePoint” button in the ribbon bar stops working. It simply didn’t do anything when I clicked it. I tried to turn on Javascript error but there was nothing related. I have […]

Trek Madone 7 2014 with Zipp 303/404 Review

INTRODUCTION You may arrive at this post and be surprised that the website is actually not a cycling site but rather a business/consulting website. My day to day job is an IT consultant but I have fallen in love with bike riding since about 4 years ago. Therefore, I thought of posting some of my cycling activities here. […]

SharePoint Web Services – How to Re-assign Removed/Corrupted SharePoint Services Certificate

INTRODUCTION I was in the process of setting up Service Application publishing. I did not know why I did it but anyway in the source farm I updated the certificate for SharePoint Web Services IIS website. This website by default uses the SharePoint Services root certificate. When you update the certificate to your own, you […]

Report render failure. Error: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)

INTRODUCTION Seems that the rsProcessingAborted CRM SQL report (SRS) is one of the most common errors we are getting with the MS CRM system. There are few things that cause the error and I hope that through this article it helps you resolving it. In a nutshell, the error means nothing else than “there is […]

How to Configure High Availability SQL Reporting Service Scale-Out Deployment Clustering

INTRODUCTION You probably have read my post on configuring SQL Clustering for SharePoint. Now I need to also configure SQL Reporting Service to be highly available (HA). In Reporting Service term this is called Scale-Out Deployment. For this exercise I have 2 SQL Servers cluster namely SQL01 and SQL02. The cluster node is called SQLCL. […]

How to Install Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reporting Extension SSRS in SQL Report Cluster Scale-Out Deployment

INTRODUCTION I have just configured SQL Server Reporting “cluster” or in SQL Server term: “Scale Out Deployment”. What this allows me to do is to achieve High Availability (HA) for the reports ie. when one report server is down, the other node can serve the reports. I then install MS CRM to use this clustered […]

SharePoint 2010, 2013 “Open with Windows Explorer” button is greyed out disabled

INTRODUCTION I have a task of moving documents out of a folder to another folder. I figure that the quickest way of doing this is by using the Windows Explorer feature in SharePoint. The button is available from the “Library” tab within a document library. Unfortunately this button is disabled when I opened that tab. […]

SharePoint 2010 2013 AD Updated, User Profile Updated but not My Settings or WSS Profile or Welcome User Text

INTRODUCTION I have updated a user’s details in Active Directory (in this instance surname and email). I re-run the User Profile sync service and all is well. When I check the User Profile in User Profile Service Application the details are all updated correctly. When the user login to SharePoint however, the “Welcome” text still […]

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