Comments for Stefan Goßner

I also have trouble after installing the August 2017 in our sharepoint 2013 environment.
The PSCONFIG is coming back with errors as the patch is missing from other WFE’s, which I have already installed.
I did run the get-spproduct -local on all the servers.
fyi – Somehow the (get-spserver $env:ComputerName).NeedsUpgrade returns false on the app server.

May i know how to upgrade SharePoint Search Databases,

in CA -> Review Databases status-> For Search Databases it is showing like Database is too old and upgrade is required.

I am unable to access the Search Crawl Logs and Content Sources also it is giving sorry something went wrong error. Is this database status causing this issue?

if yes, Please help me how to upgrade Search Databases.

Hi Stefan,

until now we have installed only SharePoint CUs in our Farms. (Latest install Jan 2017 CU)
Is it possible to Change to PU installation over WSUS?
Or there any Problems?

Best regards
Joerg

Hi Joerg,
from what I have seen (I’m not a WSUS expert) WSUS will only install fixes on Standalone SharePoint installations. Not on Farm configuration.
Cheers,
Stefan

Hi Stefan, I forgot to gracefully shut down the distributed cache before installing MOSS 2013 SP1. Now the SharePoint Configuration Wizard doesnt run sucessfully. I got ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException’ Erro on loading one or more types. Tried to reinstall the appfabric service manually, but not lock. Do you have any further suggestion?

Hi Sven,
these two things should be unrelated. If you are not gracefully shutting down distributed cache you will loose cache content – but you will not run into an upgrade exception.
If you cannot resolve the SPUpgradeException on your own I would recommend to open a support case with Microsoft.
Cheers,
Stefan

Hi Stefan, I have a couple of issues if you could advise on, that would be great. Are you aware of any issue running the July 2017 CU with Search Server. It now shows Paused for External request. I have tried to resume it via PS but still no joy., I have tried re-indexing as well. The CU installed with no issues and Config Wizard went through. Although on step 9 it reach 100% but failed due to a solution installed on the farm. Database shows No Action Required but shows failed in upgrade status. I removed solution and ran config again. it went through successfully but still shows Failed in upgrade status, with 1 error. when I search in Upgrade log I cant see any Error, what are your thoughts please.

Thanks
Anthony

Hi Anthony,
hard to say from just the information above.
I would recommend to open a support ticket with Microsoft to get this investigated in more detail.
Cheers,
Stefan

yeah I think it looks that way. thanks for taking the time to reply. regards Anthony

Hi Stefan,
After applying April 2017 CU, in our hybrid sp 2013 environment. Mysites start redirecting to office 365 delve. Initially, it was not like this. But now on prem mysites get redirected to Delve. Any suggestion please.

Hi Stefan,

We want to have multiple URls ( 30+) which eventually comes to the same site collection and render the same content. based on the incoming URL we will programmatically change the list reads out put based on content meta data.

only thing is we should have to have different URLs for each variation and seems like it is straight forward. But our URL format would be as below. Can variation support for this use case. If so how ?
variation 1 : http://www.foo.com
variation 2 : http://www.boo.com
variation 3 : http://www.example.com

Hi Stefan,
Would you happen to know if Office 2013 will be getting a similar fix? I need to install Office 2013 pro plus onto server 2012 R2 with .NET FWK 4.7 (not visible in Uninstall programs) and it is still failing on a .NET FWK 4.5 pre-requisite.

Whenever I run -cmd secure resources the command fails with UnauthorizedAccessException:

Exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
at System.Security.AccessControl.Win32.SetSecurityInfo(ResourceType type, String name, SafeHandle handle, SecurityInfos securityInformation, SecurityIdentifier owner, SecurityIdentifier group, GenericAcl sacl, GenericAcl dacl)
at System.Security.AccessControl.NativeObjectSecurity.Persist(String name, SafeHandle handle, AccessControlSections includeSections, Object exceptionContext)
at System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemSecurity.Persist(String fullPath)
at System.IO.FileInfo.SetAccessControl(FileSecurity fileSecurity)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPResourceAccess.SetFileAccessRule()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPResourceAccess.SecureResources(Boolean isSingleBox, EventHandler`1 progressUpdateEvent)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.SecurityTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

The above was gathered from SharePoint Error logs at …Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS. Running SharePoint 2013 Standard.

I am seeing the following message even though 7/8 steps were successful (secureresources was the failure): “Configuration of SharePoint products failed” successful configuration settings: 7, unsuccessful configuration settings: 1

Hi Mike,
sounds to me as if the current user is not a local administrator on the box.
Cheers,
Stefan

sorry – I have no information on Office client products.

Hi Arosh,
variations only allows to create differnet variation labels inside a site collection. You cannot do it between site collections.
Different host names are not possible within a single site collection.
Cheers,
Stefan

Microsoft today decided to joke with me. The link https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3087184 goes to a blank page.

Hi Jean,
I tested the link and it works fine. Seems to be an issue on your end.
Cheers,
Stefan

Oh, I really thought the Feature Pack 2, would contain the modern experience as seen in SharePoint online. So much for the excitement.
With modern team sites, pages and more. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place but I can’t find the settings for turning this on in on-premise.
Bummer…….

After installing Sep 2017 Independent + Dependent , the timer service stopped and didn’t start by any means

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