I came across the below error when trying to create a new web application via PowerShell against a 2013 farm. "Specified value is not supported for the domainname parameter error when creating web apps" This appears to have been caused by the machine loosing connectivity to the domain so even though my server was domain... Continue Reading →
Error: The content processing pipeline failed to process the item. ( Object reference not set to an instance of an object. )
I came across the following error in the crawl logs of a SharePoint 2013 instance. "The content processing pipeline failed to process the item. ( Object reference not set to an instance of an object. )" In my case this turned out to be because I had deleted the managed metadata service that had been... Continue Reading →
Error: TF30275: Error while uploading file
I was involved recently in a TFS implementation for one of our clients where after succesfull installation and configuration of TFS/SharePoint they received an error message when creating a team site using the agile template. The initial error was coming back as the connection to the SharePoint portal had failed and it could not complete... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: One or more field types are not installed properly.
Whilst working on a recently upgraded SharePoint 2010 site (database attach upgrade) I attempted to modify an existing web part. As soon as the page went into edit mode I was presented with the following SharePoint error: "One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these... Continue Reading →
Error: This file cannot be saved because there is no connection to this server.
When using a virtual image, which does not have a network connection. You may experience problems with saving documents directly into a document library and the following error message may be displayed. "This file cannot be saved because there is not connection to this server. Check your network connection and try again". To resolve this... Continue Reading →
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