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9 Months of Fun with SharePoint in Azure and Office 365

I recently put together a presentation on my experience in New York / New Jersey over the course of a 9 (or maybe 10) month project trying to migrate SharePoint data from one company to another, and then into the cloud. I gave this presentation at the Office 365 Saturday event in Sydney, Australia on …

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How to Change the Domain of Multiple SharePoint Accounts

Very recently I had to change a bunch of accounts from one domain to another in SharePoint. Rather than doing this piecemeal for each individual account, I decided to write a simple script to do this for me. Since I couldn’t find this online, I figured I’d demonstrate how I did it.     Start …

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Error 1935 when Installing SharePoint and SharePoint Designer

A while back I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 and was receiving the following “Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly component”. I was also getting this issue when trying to install SharePoint Designer 2010.     Initially I tried the following link, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/926804, but that did not resolve my problem. …

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SharePoint Configuration Wizard: Feature definition failed validation. The ListInternal attribute is not allowed

A while ago I ran into an issue where I was unable to successfully build a new SharePoint 2016 farm because the Products Configuration Wizard was throwing an error. The error was as follows.     Failed to create the configuration database.     An exception of type System.Xml.Schema.SchemaException was thrown. Additional exception information: Feature …

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PSConfig: The IncomingUrl is already present in the collection in a different zone

I recently encountered the following error message when running the Products Configuration Wizard (psconfig) in SharePoint 2013.     Exception: System.ArgumentException: The IncomingUrl is already present in the collection in a different zone.  A url may only map to one zone at a time.  Use a different url for requests from this zone.   Although …

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Import-SPWeb: Could not find language

I was recently working on a customer SharePoint site when I was running into this issue with trying to import new data into their environment.     Import-SPWeb : Could not find language 1040     It was truly very frustrating as I had already installed what I thought was the correct language pack. Actually …

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The Specified User or Domain Group Was Not Found

I was seeing some odd behaviour on a client site a while back. Below is a list of the various issues I was seeing.     When trying to insert a link into a web page     I was seeing the following error.     Also in the ULS, I was seeing the following …

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Free move to the Canadian Data Centers by Oct. 31, 2016

Now’s your chance to have Microsoft move your O365 Exchange, Skype, CRM and SharePoint Online data at rest to the new Canadian Data Centers: itgroove has been watching this for a while now: September 2013; June 2015; June 2015; May 2016; May 2016.  So we’ve decided to take the leap to better serve our clients and …

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SharePoint Search Tips

Knowing how to search for files and information in SharePoint is critical to improving the ease with which information can be found. “Findability” increases when users understand how to perform an effective search. The key is successful search results is training users to to enter full or partial keywords into the search engine in the correct order and with the correct …

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SharePoint Search Service Won’t Provision as User Not Found

A while back I ran into a situation where the Search Service Application wouldn’t provision in SharePoint 2013. The client was seeing the following error message.         As it turns out, this was due to the client deciding half way through the setup to change the user ID’s of the service accounts …

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