Enable Claims based authentication on an existing web application
When you provision a web application in SharePoint 2010 you get the option to enable Claims based authentication. However, after the provisioning there's no option in the GUI to turn it on. PowerShell...
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Token Signing Certificate: The Root Certificate is invalid
When you try to add a trust relationship in SharePoint 2010 using the Central Administration you might get an error. The root certificate that was just selected is invalid. This may be because the...
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SharePoint 2010 Trusted Identity Token Issuer Error
I was setting up SharePoint to use Federated Authentication using Azure Access Control Service (ACS) when it ran into an error. After checking the SharePoint logs I ran into the following lines:...
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Event 6398 – Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSqmTimerJobDefinition...
Log Name: ApplicationSource: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint FoundationEvent ID: 6398Task Category: TimerLevel: CriticalUser: domain.local\spfarmComputer: server.domain.localDescription:The...
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Event 5555 – No User Profile Application available to service the request
I was troubleshooting some problems with the User Profiles Service of SharePoint 2010 and I ran into event ID 5555. The error seems to be reoccurring every day around 6:11 AM. Failure trying to synch...
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Sharepoint Search Service: Access is denied
When I was working on getting the search working on my SharePoint 2010 Farm I ran into 2 problems. Both problems caused the same error: Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access...
View ArticleSetting up SharePoint Claims Based Authentication with Azure
I ran into a couple of good articles on setting up Claims Based Authentication on SharePoint 2010 using Azure. In these pages Mike Hacker runs you through all the settings in the Azure ACS panel and...
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PowerPoint Web App encountered an error
The reason behind this error definitely makes it into my top 10 of mistakes! I'm still not sure who's mistake it was, mine or Microsoft's, but I'm assuming that it's mine to be on the safe side. The...
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Scheduling the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore command
When you setup your SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service to import the user's pictures from Active Directory you will have to run the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore command. Of course you don't want to do...
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Access denied in SharePoint 2010
Recently I did an update run on my SharePoint 2010 farm and I fixed some errors that were showing in the event log. This resulted in one specific error that resulted in an Access Denied on one of the...
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