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SharePoint User Profile Search Error: Property does not exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings

INTRODUCTION I just upgraded my SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013. One of the functionalities that my SharePoint 2010 site had was People search. The restore to SP 2013 was successful. However, when I tried to do People search the Core Search Results web-part displays the following error message: Property does not exist or is […]

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August 2012 Cumulative Updates Bugs – Site Timeout & Navigation Items Multiplied to Hundreds and Thousands

Hi everyone, just thought of letting you know that since the install of August 2012 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint Server 2010, a new bug is introduced. This has been verified by Microsoft themselves. I am currently working with a particular client to resolve the issues. Basically the issues are: site is suddenly inaccessible. It’s pretty […]

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Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to run SharePoint User Profile Synchronisation nothing happened. The status was sitting at “Synchronising (0)”.   When I opened Event Viewer it showed: == The management agent “MOSSAD-XXXXXX” failed on run profile “DS_FULLIMPORT” because of connectivity issues. ==   Then when I dig further and run the following application: C:\Program […]

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Clicking on User Profile Service Application and Get Error Message

INTRODUCTION   I’ve just created a User Profile Service Application but when I tried to go into it (i.e. clicking on it) I get a pop-up error message. In SharePoint log the following error message is logged:   == Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: This User Profile Application’s connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or User Profile […]

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The file name or path does not exist when check-in/out publishing pages/master page/page layouts

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to check-in/out publishing pages, master pages and page layouts I get the “The file name or path does not exist” error.   CAUSE   The database server space is full.   RESOLUTION   Add more space or move the content database to a drive that has bigger space.

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User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions from User Profile Application: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: No User Profile Application available to service the request.

INTRODUCTION   Following my other post about User Profile service instantiation, the service is now fully started but when I click on the User Profile Service Application link I get an error message straight away.   When I looked in the log I get the following: == User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions […]

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Service Applications Not Provisioning – User Profile Service Status Going Back to Starting

INTRODUCTION   Everything was working fine only until recently where the User Profile Service status was going back to “Starting”. I then tried to delete the Service Application and start again but it failed. It popped-out with “Deleting” window but nothing happens.   I tried to provision a new Service Application and same. It opened […]

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Nintex Workflow 2010 – SOAP Builder Error Upon Using Web Service Task

INTRODUCTION   I personally like Nintex Workflow. I think it’s a great workflow and so much easier to use than the generic Visual Studio one. Anyway, one of the tasks that I can use is Web Service Call. Basically I can get result from a web service and save it to a workflow variable.   […]

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Search Service Application Error: The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component in search application is in a good state and try again.

INTRODUCTION   Hi guys, I just tried to install Search Service Application today but whenever I went to the administration page I get the following error message:   == The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘bae8d161-c132-4570-aa0d-57baf6cf9d9b’ in search application ‘Search […]

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SharePoint 2010 – User Profile Synch (FIM Sync) failed – BAIL: MMS(1952): server.cpp(1838): 0x80070005 (Access is denied.) – Generic Failure

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to run the profile sync (i.e. Run Full Synchronisation) it didn’t run at all. The status was always in IDLE. I tried to refresh the page and the status didn’t change.   In Event Viewer I get the following errors: == FIRST ERROR BAIL: MMS(1952): server.cpp(1838): 0x80070005 (Access is denied.) […]

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