• SP 2010: People picker slow

    Problem: People Picker was hanging for about 2 minutes when searching for a user in the Grant Permissions area of the site Cause: People picker was not set to search a single forest Resolution: run the following commands: stsadm -o setproperty...
  • SP 2013: Help links in Central Admin not working: there is a compatibility range mismatch betwwn the web server and database "CentralAdmin_Content"

    Problem: When clicking on the Help links in Central Ad,min ” There is a compatibility range mismatch between the Web server and database "CentralAdmin_Content", and connections to the data have been blocked to due to this incompatibility...
  • SP 2010 and FAST Search: inconsistent search results between Search Center and search.asmx service

    Problem: When querying a specific term ie "book reports" via a search web service at url http://server/contentlibrary/_vti_bin/search.asmx they were seeing less than 100 results but when searching via the Search Center it returned 100s of results...
  • SharePoint Conference 2014: what do you want to know?

    HI everyone, I will be attending the SharePoint conference next week. For those of you who have been there, I'm sure you'll agree its an amazing experience. This will be my 2nd time attending. I'm looking forward to the many sessions and...
  • SharePoint 2010: Content Database not upgraded

    Problem: Every time customer would run Upgrade-SPContentDatabase on a specific Content Database it would fail. The database was stuck in a compatibility mode since it could not be upgraded to the build version of the rest of the farm. Troubleshooting...