Monday 9 January 2017

Can't Edit SharePoint 2013 site page

Hello Folks,

I had tried to edit the SharePoint site page by clicking the Edit button under settings wheel, however it didn't gone to edit mode.

I tried to find the solution in site settings page, however I didn't find any solution.
Then, I found 1 article from "Mayank Chavan" where he said to check-out the site page.

Solution:
You need to first checkout the page then try "Edit Page".

Navigate to Site Settings -> Site Content -> Site Pages -> Click on "..." next to page name -> Click on "Check out" ->

Now when you "Edit page" it will work. Once done with editing please make sure to Check In the page.

Thanks,
Sandeep

Tuesday 17 May 2016

The service '/SearchAdmin.svc' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: The farm is unavailable.

Hi,
I am Sandeep. Recently I had gone through the issue in my SharePoint 2013 Environment.
I have 2 servers in my SharePoint farm. I am getting more than 100 event logs on one of the SharePoint server. So I tried to check what is the issue and finally I found the issue and it got resolved by following the below steps.

Event Log:
WebHost failed to process a request.
Sender Information: System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/3382020
Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException:
The service '/SearchAdmin.svc' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: The farm is unavailable.

Issue Caused:
In our SharePoint server, few components are NOT working in Search Service Application.

Search Service Application -- System Status.
Administrative status: All Errors
Crawler background activity: All Errors


Resolution:
  1. Open the IIS Manager -- Expand the Server Name -- Select Application Pools
  2. Find the Application Pool name which has created with the identity of Search-Service Account and note-down the Application Pool name.
  3. Go to Sites -- Expand the SharePoint Web Services
  4. Select the 1st entry(Ex: 0h37hs5789ti3j988s0f08wr3iu9p) which has added in the list.
  5. Right-click on mouse and select Switch to Content View in the options.
  6. Find the SearchAdmin.svc in the Content view panel. (If you did not found the SearchAdmin.svc, then check the other entries below until you get)
  7. Once you found the SearchAdmin.svc from the respective entry, then click the same entry once-again and see the Basic Settings in right-hand side.
  8. Click the Basic Settings -- In the Application pool box, check if the correct application pool was selected. (Refer the 2nd point which is related to Search-Service)
  9. If the different application pool is selected, then change it to Search-Service Application pool name. To change the application pool, click on the Select button and in another window you will get list of application pools which is registered. Select the appropriate Application pool and click OK to apply the changes.
  10. The same changes to be made in the another SharePoint server in the farm.
  11. Then do the IIS RESET through Command prompt and check the Search Service Application status.
Result:
Search Service Application -- System Status.
Administrative status: Running
Crawler background activity: None


Everything is working as expected.
Thank you..!!!
 

Friday 18 December 2015

SharePoint 2013 Apps Issue: Server Error in ‘/’ Application - The resource cannot be found - HTTP 404.

Hello Friends,


I am Sandeep. I had setup the SharePoint 2013 server farm and created App Catalog site, App Domain and App prefix in the "Apps" section in SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
Then I added the App into App Catalog site and tried to open the App link, hence I got the below error message.


Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
The resource cannot be found.

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL:


Reference Screenshot for the Error Message:



Solution:

I found the good article from one of the SharePoint guy and it is really a simple solution to fix this issue.
  1. Create a new Web-Application with the SharePoint server name on port 80 without host-header name.
  2. Create a Root Level Site collection for the above Web-Application without mentioning any Managed paths as: /sites/apps/.
Then it will START working without the below error message.


Note: You can delete the Server named Web-Application after few days when the App's are started working.


Please find the below link for your reference.
http://absolute-sharepoint.com/2013/02/troubleshooting-setting-up-an-environment-for-apps-for-sharepoint-2013.html 

Wednesday 28 October 2015

SharePoint 2010: Microsoft Excel has stopped working: A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.

Microsoft Excel has stopped working: A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.


Error Screenshot:


Solution:
1. Delete the Temporary Internet files, Cookies and website data, History, Download History, Form data, password, Tracking Protection.
2. Add the SharePoint site URL into Trusted sites list.
3. Modify the IE browser settings in the Security Settings.

Explanation:
1. Delete the Temporary Internet files, Cookies and website data, History, Download History, Form data, password, Tracking Protection.
  • Open the IE browser --> Go to Tools --> Internet Options --> in General tab, find the Delete.. button.
  • Click the check-boxes: Temporary Internet files, Cookies and website data, History, Download History, Form data, password, Tracking Protection.
  • Click Delete button to delete the selected items. (see the below screenshot)
 
2. Add the SharePoint site URL into Trusted sites list.
  • Open the SharePoint site with IE browser.
  • Go to the Tools menu in the IE browser --> In the drop-down menu, select Internet Options.
  • Go to Security tab --> click Trusted sites --> click Sites button.
  • Add the SharePoint site URL in the place ‘Add this website to the zone’.(Ignore if the site URL is automatically present in the box)
  • Un-check the box ‘Required server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone’ --> click Add button click Close button to close the windows.




3. Modify the IE browser settings in the Security Settings.
  • Open the SharePoint site with IE browser.
  • Go to the Tools menu in the IE browser --> In the drop-down menu, select Internet Options.
  • Go to Security tab --> click Trusted sites --> In the bottom, see and click Custom level.. button.

  • Under the ActiveX controls and plug-ins --> find the Allow Scriptlets --> Enable it.

  • Under the Miscellaneous section --> find the Access data sources across domains --> Enable it.

  • Under the Miscellaneous section --> find the Display mixed content  --> Enable it.

  • Click OK and YES and OK to come out from the IE browser options window.
  • Close the IE browser and re-open the IE browser and login to the SharePoint site and try to open the Excel, Word documents stored in your SharePoint site.
Hope the issue got resolved by following these steps...!!!