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The Managed Metadata Service ‘<Service Name>’ is inaccessible

May 26, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server Date: 5/25/2011 2:54:04 AM Event ID: 8088 Task Category: Taxonomy Level: Warning Keywords: User: DEV\_ap_pool Computer: WFE-01.DEV.LOCAL Description: The Managed Metadata Service ‘<Service Name>’ is inaccessible. If you are receiving this error on your SharePoint Servers the fix is quite easy.  There is also a TechNet link […]

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FAST Search Server backup | Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]

May 19, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  If you have attempted a backup of your FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (according to the documentation) PowerShell you may receive the following error “Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]” In our case we are using SQL Server 2008 R2 so the files we require are part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature […]

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SharePoint 2010 MP for SCOM 2007 R2

May 13, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  If you are planning an install of SCOM 2007 R2 to monitor your SharePoint 2010 environment (either Foundation or Server) these links will be invaluable to you:   System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 4 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Management […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server

The SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 2010 (SPDiag 3.0)

May 3, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Microsoft seems to have snuck in a new tool to help diagnose/troubleshoot issues in SharePoint.  It is part of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0 and provides SharePoint administrators with a unified interface that can be used to gather relevant information from a farm, display the results in a meaningful way, identify performance […]

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SharePoint Server 2010 Configuration NOT using the Wizard (PPTX)

March 24, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Here is the slide deck for the session I gave at the Ottawa Windows Server User Group on the evening of March 22nd, 2011.     Session Description This session for the IT Pro will go through some of the configuration of SharePoint Server 2010 when you don’t the “Configuration Wizard”. We shall look at […]

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User Profile Service Connections Blank

March 7, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


More than likely you applied a CU, but at the moment I am not able to determine what causes this to occur. UPS Connections Query Empty (After CU is applied) Grant Local Administrator Privileges to Database Access Account (on the machine hosting the UPSA) Reboot Server Start User Profile Service Application (in Central Admin) After […]

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FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 CU

February 11, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you have SharePoint Server 2010 deployed, running FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 and have deployed the October 2010 or December 2010 CU for SharePoint Server you may experience the following issue: If you create a new Site Collection in a Web Application which is connected to a FAST Query SSA and specify a […]

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FAST Search Authorization Admin Unable to complete request to sam worker node

January 10, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 6 Comments


This FAST Search error appeared after running Configuration Wizard and rebooting. NOTE: We had not configured either of the FAST Content SSA or FAST Query SSA yet.   In one of our environments we got the errors below.  We tried a number of things to resolve the error and after a while it felt like […]

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FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Event ID 1000

January 6, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


Log Name: FAST Search Farm Source: FAST Search Farm QRServer Date: 16/12/2010 1:33:54 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: FST-01.DEV.LOCAL Description: FST-01: Admin error occurred during loading of keyword data. The keyword cache may be stale. Exception Message:Failed to communicate with the WCF service. During one of […]

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Creating Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010

November 26, 2010 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If going to Central Administration | Security | Configure Managed Accounts and Registering a new account (with Automatic Password Change) fails with the following error   You will no longer be able to access the Configure Managed Accounts screen until you remove the offending account you just tried to add, this is all you will […]

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