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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SPS – Exception from HRESULT: 0x80041050

INTRODUCTION One Monday morning suddenly my client’s old SPS 2003 site no longer worked. It gave the error: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80041050 The interesting thing is, some sub-sites are working fine. Trying to access the Site Settings and they’re fine too. So originally I thought that there must be something related to that particular page. Intrigued, […]

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SharePoint 2010 2013 Search Component is Offline

INTRODUCTION I am running a 3 server farm environment: 1 Central Admin (CA) and 2 Web Front Ends (WFE). I set the following search components on each of the VMs: – CA: Admin, crawler, content processing, analytics processing, query processing, index partition – WFE 1: content processing, analytics processing, query processing, index partition – WFE 2: content processing, analytics […]

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SharePoint 2010 2013 Managed Metadata Not Saving Properly Unless Logged In as Site Collection Administrator

INTRODUCTION I have this scenario: In SharePoint 2010 or 2013 you can create a field/column which type is “Managed Metadata”. You can then attach it to a publishing page or list item. What’s strange is, when you’re logged in as a Site Collection Administrator you can add, edit, delete list item or page fine. However, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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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SharePoint 2013 InfoPath GetUserProfileService.asmx Error 500 Internal Server Error – Unauthorized or User with the Account Name Could Not Be Found

INTRODUCTION I’m in the process of migrating a SharePoint 2010 site to 2013. Within the site are several InfoPath forms that need to also be migrated to 2013. The migration was all easy except when I start filling the InfoPath form, I get an error querying the web service. After some investigations I found out […]

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SharePoint 2010 2013 Feature Stapling Custom Web Templates Not Displayed

INTRODUCTION I upgraded my SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013. One of the features I’ve built installs custom web site templates that are meant to be available from Create Site page. After upgrading somehow my custom web templates are not displaying. SOLUTION SharePoint 2013 can run in SharePoint 2010 mode except for that web templates, […]

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