Background Traditionally the approach to multiple SSL IIS websites hosted on a server involved multiple sites each with its own certificate bound to a single IP address/port combination. If you didn’t mind using non standard SSL ports, then you could use a single IP address on the server, but the experience was not …

There seems to be an issue installing Workflow Manager 1.0 refresh on Windows Server 2012 R2. Upon completion, when clicking through to configure Workflow Manager, you are informed that neither Service Bus 1.0, nor (obviously) CU1 for Service Bus 1.0 has been installed. Digging into the event log on the machine in …

Following the recent release of Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and SQL Server 2014 CTP1, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if I could get SharePoint 2013 running on the combination of these two previews. Most of the issues I encountered were around the product installers for SharePoint and the …

My last post about the SharePoint 2013 MySite Newsfeed and required additional permissions on the User Profile Service Application dealt with adding the required permissions to the UPSA using the SharePoint 2013 GUI. Alternatively, you can add the required permissions using PowerShell: 1 2 3#Grab a reference to the …

This is an issue that we've been bumping up against and have seen a number of other users seeing the same problem with SharePoint 2013 implementations. When looking at the 'Everyone' tab on a user's MySite, the following message is displayed: and the following entries appear in the SharePoint logs: Failure retrieving …

Extending some of the default content types available in SharePoint 2010 can result in unwanted fields being shown. An example is extending the 'Event' default content type, which has three fields attached which you don't seem to be able to edit: In particular, many users would like to remove the Workspace field from …

The default communication scheme for many of the SharePoint 2010 Service Applications is ‘http’ (i.e. unsecured). This can be changed easily in the GUI by selecting the service application and clicking the ‘publish’ ribbon button: It should however be noted that a number of Service Application communication schemes run …

Office 2007/2010 format documents stored in SharePoint 2010 which have their title field populated show an incorrect title in the default search results. The screen shot below shows the search results for the following document: Filename: Test document 1.docx Title: Test Document 1 Title First line of document: First …

On the face of it, renaming the Managed Metadata Service Application database in SharePoint should be a fairly simple matter. There’s a test box for the database name in the properties of the Service Application and changing the name shown changes the database name. There are however one or two issues with changing the …

SharePoint can use multiple domains for user authentication, however I recently came across an issue when setting up an extranet using this scenario. The steps for setting up SharePoint 2007 to use multiple domains for user authentication are relatively simple: Add the second domain as a user profile source in the SSP …