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Unable To Live Migrate A Virtual Machine –“There currently are no network...
Having moved a virtual machine (VM) from a Hyper-V cluster where network optimization was available, to a cluster where it isn’t I was unable to live migrate the VM because “There currently are no...
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Veeam Tape Backup Fails With Unable to start tape backup session:...
Following an upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 Patch 4, tape backups failed with the error “Unable to start tape backup session: StartSessionTape failed”. In order to get the backups...
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SharePoint Integrated SSRS Reports Fail To Run After An Upgrade To Claims...
Following an upgrade to SharePoint 2013 and claims based authentication, SSRS reports fail to load and you receive the error “Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: User cannot be found”. Unfortunately,...
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SharePoint 2013 Certificate Error Causes Performance Issues
Whilst working with a SharePoint 2013 environment I experienced slow page load times and poor search performance. After initial page loads performance was fine for several minutes before the...
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Resolving SharePoint 2013 VSS Errors With Veeam And SCDPM
Backing up a virtual SharePoint 2013 environment using Veeam and MS System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 (SCDPM) failed with VSS errors. Veeam is being used to create VM image based backups...
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SharePoint 2013 Search – The Chart Cannot Be Rendered
Opening SharePoint 2013 Search Service Application and viewing the crawl health reports results in the error “The chart cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft...
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SharePoint 2013 MsiInstaller Errors Related To The User Profile Service...
On the SharePoint 2013 server running the User Profile Service Application you see three errors in the Windows Application event log: Event ID 1015 Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070005 Event...
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New Book System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
I had the privilege of being a technical review on this great new book from Alessandro Cardoso. If you work with SCVMM 2012 R2 take a look. Covering : Windows 2012 R2 and Hyper-V new features, System...
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Enable Searching For SharePoint 2013 Asset Library Items Using Keywords
Within SharePoint 2013 you have the ability to create an Asset Library. This is a special type of SharePoint library, which is optimised for the storing of image, audio, or video files. If you’re not...
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SharePoint 2013 Error User Settings Not Initialized
Following a migration to SharePoint 2013, one user had the error whereby every time they loaded SharePoint they were confronted with the error “Error: User Settings Not Initialized”. In order to fix...
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Enable SharePoint 2013 Integrated SSRS To Send Email Alerts
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), when integrated into SharePoint 2013 enables reports to be sent to users via email. From the report click Manage Subscriptions. On the following screen click Add...
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Updating The SharePoint 2010 CSV Bulk Taxonomy TermSet Importer/Exporter For...
The SharePoint 2010 CSV Bulk Taxonomy TermSet Importer/Exporter enables the import and export of taxonomies from the SharePoint Term Store. It’s available on CodePlex and supports SharePoint 2010. I...
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SCVMM 2012 R2 – Dynamic Optimization Cannot Be Performed At This Time
When trying to run the Optimize Hosts wizard within SCVMM 2012 R2 I received the error “Dynamic Optimization Cannot Be Performed At This Time” and “Object reference not set to an instance of an...
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Re-Size The Distributed Cache Service In SharePoint 2013
When you install SharePoint Server 2013 the Distributed Cache service is configured to use 10% of the RAM on the server. Half of the 10% is used for caching and the other half is used for memory...
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Switching Language In SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2010 it was easy to switch between languages using the user menu within SharePoint. To switch language In SharePoint 2013 open Control Panel -> Language and click Add a language. Once...
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SharePoint 2013 Content Search Web Part: One or more of the following...
When adding the Content Search Web Part to a site for the first time, the web part took a while to load, then displayed the error: One or more of the following resource files failed to load:...
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Hyper-V VM Stuck In Backing Up… State
In this post I’ll show how to resolve the issue of a VM that’s stuck in the “backing up…” state as shown by Hyper-V Manager, without having to reboot the virtual host. If a VM is stuck in the backing...
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Changing The Default Number Of Refiner Options In SharePoint 2013 Search
By default, SharePoint 2013 Search shows 5 options for each refiner, except result type, which has 6 options. In order to change the number of options you need to edit the Filter_Default.html display...
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Search By Document ID In SharePoint 2013
The SharePoint Document ID Service is a Site Collection Feature which assigns unique IDs to documents within a Site Collection. The unique document ID can be used to locate documents within a Site...
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Configure SharePoint 2013 Search Index Managed Property Sizes
If you check the crawl logs for SharePoint 2013 you may see warnings similar to those below: The item has been truncated in the index because it exceeds the maximum size. This item was partially...
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