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Certificate error for Federated Domains on O365

2013-03-21T22:34:00Z

Error:

One of your on-premises Federation Service certificates is expiring. Failure to renew the certificate and update trust properties within 13 days will result in a loss of access to all Office 365 services for all users. Update now

Resolution:

Follow the articles below in that order.

1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2383983 - On the On-Prem ADFS server, Resolution 2, only PS Commands

 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Adfs.Powershell

 Update-ADFSCertificate -CertificateType: Token-Signing

2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647048 - Run the commands in this article.

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Map Network Drive / WebDav with SharePoint Online O365

2013-03-20T15:53:00Z

WebDav with SharePoint Online O365

Issue: While Mapping a Drive to SharePoint Online it fails with below error.

Error: The Mapped Network Drive could not be created because the following error has occurred.
'Access Denied'. Before opening files in this location, you must first add the web site to your trusted sites list, browse to the web site and select the option to login Automatically.

Resolution:

Open IE -> Go to ‘Internet Options’
Select ‘Security’ tab -> Select ‘Internet’ Zone.
UnCheck the box for ‘Enable Protected Mode’

Issue: You are using SharePoint workspace and when you try to save the file opened from Workspace. The Save location changes to local machines Temp folder instead of SharePoint Online Library from where the file was accessed. While Saving or ‘Save As’, the location should default to the SharePoint Online library itself and not the local machines temp folder.

Check / Troubleshoot:

Make sure the ‘Web Client’ service is started on the client machine.
Open the SPO site -> go to the Document Library
Select ‘Open with Explorer’ [ Make sure this is working fine ]
Delete IE Cache.
In IE ‘Trusted Sites’ zone add
https://*.lync.com

https://*.outlook.com

https://*.microsoftonline.com

https://*.sharepoint.com

Note: This is basically working on the WebDav functionality to work which is related to “Open in Explorer” mode from a SharePoint Document library. If you notice that the library does not open in Explorer Window from the site directly, your Save As option will redirect you to temp folder instead of the Site URL.

Note: Some users may complain that after certain period of time the mapped drive disconnects or they are asked to enter the credentials again for O365. This will happen if the time period has extended over 8 hours. This is default behavior by Design. They will need to refresh the credentials. This may also occur if users have not selected “Keep me signed in” checkbox while they sign in through Microsoft Online sign-in assistant.

Users can't sign out of Office 365 web services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2507767

Note: this is known issue with Office 2013 64 Bit version. it will not work

Step by Step configuration to Add custom Refiners in the Refinement Panel of Search Results page for SharePoint Online

2013-03-19T23:11:00Z

Scenario:

You may have custom Library/List columns created which you would like to show them in the Refinement Panel on the Search Results.

Step 1: Creating a Document
Library / List with Customer Columns

Create a New Document library -> go to Library Settings
Create a new Column “Product Type” – Choice Field is what I selected.
Upload some documents to the library and give different Choice options.

4. Go to Library Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Click on ‘ReIndex Document library’ Button.

Step 2: Creating a New Site
Collection or Sub Site using “Enterprise Search Center” template. (Note: the reason we need to do this is due to the fact that we
cannot modify the OOB ‘osssearchresults.aspx’ page)

I created a Subsite under my site collection using the ‘Enterprise Search Center’ template. Make sure that you are able to search the documents uploaded.

Step 3: Configuring Managed
Properties for Search

Logon to Microsoft Online Portal (MOP)
Go to SharePoint Online Administration Center page.
On the Left Panel -> Select ‘Search’
Click ‘Manage Search Schema’
Search for Existing Managed property ‘RefineableString00’ -> Edit the property and set it up as per below. -> Click 'OK'

Note: By Default in SharePoint Online you cannot create a new Managed Property as ‘Refineable’, due to which we need to use the existing ones and give an Alias for that.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/manage-the-search-schema-in-sharepoint-online-HA103628856.aspx#_Toc351360838

Note: List of Default Existing Refineable Property list.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219667(v=office.15).aspx#DefaultUnusedMPs

Step 4:Adding the Managed Property to Refinement Panel on the Search Results Page

Go to the Subsite Search Center site created in Step 2.
Type in any keyword to go to the ‘Results.aspx’ page. -> ‘Edit’ that page.
Edit the Refinement Panel web Part. -> Click on ‘Choose Refiners…’ button.
From the list of ‘Available Refiners’ -> Select ‘RefineableString00’ -> Click ‘Add’ button.
Change the ‘Display Name’ for it (Initially it may not show the Sample Values, wait for around 5-10 mins to take effect )
Click ‘Ok’ -> Save and Close the Page -> Check-In and Publish the Page

Now when you perform the Search for documents in that library, on left Refinement Panel you will see the new Refiner “Product Type”

Excel opens in Read-Only after upgrading to Windows 8 with Office 2010

2013-02-03T22:03:00Z

Issue:
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After upgrading your Client machine to Windows 8 OS with Office 2010 + SP1. Excel Sheets from SharePoint sites which open on Client Application for editing, open up as 'Read-Only' Mode.

Workaround:
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On the Windows 8 Client machine create the below registry key. This is Client machine issue, NOT SharePoint Server related.

1. Open regedit.exe

2. Naviagate to following key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Internet]
"FSSHTTPOff" = dword:0000001

3. Click Edit Menu -> New -> DWORD with name of "FSSHTTPOff" (without quotes)

4. Click on "FSSHTTPOff" and enter value of 1

5. Close any Office Applications and browser sessions

6. Try to repro the problem

Not able to access OWA after O365 tenant upgrade to Wave15 - EXO

2013-01-31T22:30:00Z

Issue

Your Exchange Online (O365) tenant was recently upgraded to the new release of Wave 15. After which Users are not able to access their mail via OWA.

Once you sign-in to the MOP -> Click Outlook. It goes Blank, does not show anything and Inbox is not accessed.

Resolution

This issue will occur if you are using IE8 on the machine. Mostly you will face with XP machines who are still on IE8 and not upgraded to IE9. As of now this is a known issue with IE8 performance and Wave15 O365

Workaround

Upgrade to IE9 or above for better use of latest Wave15 features and Functionalities.

Note:- If you are not facing this issue and there are other issues with your O365 tenant after upgrading to Wave15, please contact Microsoft Support.

"Proof of domain ownership has failed" Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard Failure

2012-10-29T20:14:00Z

Issue:-

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While running the Exchange 2010 SP2 Hybrid Configuration Wizard, it fails with below error.

Proof of domain ownership has failed. Make sure that the TXT record for the specified domain is available in DNS. The format of the TXT
record should be "example.com IN TXT hash-value" where "example.com" is the domain you want to configure for Federation and "hash-value"
is the proof value generated with "Get-FederatedDomainProof -DomainName example.com". at
Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Hybrid.RemotePowershellSession.RunCommand(String cmdlet, Dictionary`2 parameters, Boolean ignoreNotFoundErrors).

Steps to Check and Rsolve.

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1. Make sure your External DNS server has the proper TXT records for the "Proof" and you can query it successfully. [ Get-FederatedDomainProof -DomainName example.com ] Will give you the proof.

2. Open Exchange Console Management (On PREM) -> "Organization Configuration" -> Select "Federation Trust"

You should find an existing 'Microsoft Federation Gateway' Trust created by the wizard. Manually Try to run it and check if it fails. Alternatively you can run PS cmd as below in verbose mode to get the error as well.

Set-FederatedOrganizationIdentifier -DelegationFederationTrust 'Microsoft Federation Gateway' -AccountNamespace 'yourdomain.com' -Enabled $True -verbose

3. If it is pointing to FYDIBOHF25SPDLT.yourdomain.com, That GUID is Default, so dont worry. This means that still your TXT record is not fetched from External DNS to verify the 'Proof' record.

4. If you Manaully Delete the Federeation Trust and Create a new one, you will get a new Proof as well for the domain. "Get-FederatedDomainProof -DomainName example.com", will give you the new Proof, which you will need to again change in the External DNS, but mostly likely this will be the issue, if there is a stale entry in AD which can be checked through ADSIEDIT.msc

5. Main thing to check is from Command Prompt, basic 'nslookup' query. below are the commands.

>nslookup

>set q=ns

>yourdomain.com [ Here you will get multiple NS records if there are more than 1, precendence will take place during query. You need to individually Query the NS servers starting from the 1st one, usually if the first server fails to process the query, Hybrid Configuration Wizard will fail with same error. ]

>ns1.yourdomain.com < IP Address >

ns2.yourdomain.com < IP Address >

>nslookup -querytype=txt yourdomain.com ns1.yourdomain.com [ Here if the 1server fails, then that server is the issue, you need to change he precedence of the servers to the one which is responding with your Domain TXT record for the Proof. ]

Note:- This error is purely due to the Proof TXT record query is not getting processed. Even if you check in any online DNS Query tools or sites, you will see the TXT record, but it can come from multiple tries to other DNS servers as well, if the primary server fails. So usually we miss that point to check

Only 1 user Calendar (free/busy) information is not correct. [ Exchange Online ]

2012-10-24T19:00:00Z

Issue:

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There is a Recurring Calendar Event which keeps sending Reminders to Users Outlook Client and OWA as well. Even if we "Dismiss all" reminders, it keeps poping up. Even if you Remove the User from the "Attendees" list, the free/busy information does not sync up and it not updated either in OWA or Outlook Client.

Resolution

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Follow article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2522226. Usually the '/cleanfreebusy' switch with Outlook client does not solve the issue. We need to follow the 2nd step, as per the Outlook client version of that problematic User.

SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Foundation 2013 Released

2012-08-08T23:23:20Z

SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345

Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview – English, Japanese, and Spanish

SharePointFoundationLP_en-us_x64.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30343

Download Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Preview

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_121_1_33

Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2013 Preview – English, Japanese, and Spanish

Serverlanguagepack_en-us_x64.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30347

SharePoint Designer 2013

SharePointDesigner_en-us_x64.exe

SharePointDesigner_en-us_x86.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30346

SharePoint 2013: presentation: IT pro training

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30361

Before you Upgrade to SQL 2012 where SharePoint databases reside.

2012-06-19T12:05:31Z

Please make sure to go through these articles before you upgrade to SQL 2012 where SharePoint databases are hosted.

SQL server 2012 is supported and works with SharePoint 2010 only if the SharePoint environment is on SP1 or higher

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231665(v=sql.110).aspx

Upgrade to SQL Server 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677622.aspx

Supported Version and Edition Upgrades

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx

Upgrade PowerPivot for SharePoint

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210646(SQL.110).aspx

Upgrade and Migrate Reporting Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143747.aspx

Upgrade Analysis Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143686.aspx

PDF iFilter - Error "The file Exists"

2012-06-19T11:20:18Z

Issue:- While crawling .pdf documents, some documents are crawled successfully and some are not. This can happen for either Adobe PDF iFilter or FoxIt PDF iFilter.

Error:- "The file Exists. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070050)".

Resolution:-

In case you are using Adobe PDF iFilter, follow below steps.

1. Change the Registry key for ‘Default’ under \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension to“{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}”

a. net stop osearch14

b. Net start osearch14

In case you are using FoxIt PDF iFilter, Follow below steps.

a. net stop osearch14

b.Net start osearch14