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March 16, 2015 by Travis Smith Leave a Comment

SharePoint Patches Installed; Missing Patches??

During SharePoint patch installation, either manually or via cumulative update (CU), sometimes you may get a message that states some patches are required and/or missing; however, you may have just finished installing all the patches. Resetting IIS or rebooting the machine will not necessarily fix this (resetting IIS definitely won’t). So what do you do? Just run this PowerShell command in the SharePoint PowerShell window:

Get-SPProduct -local

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February 22, 2015 by Travis Smith Leave a Comment

New Web Application Does Not Create IIS Site

New web applications created by PowerShell (e.g., manually or AutoSPInstaller in my case) or via Central Administration were not creating IIS sites on a small farm (2 WFE, 2 AS). While the web application and even the site collections were successfully created, the IIS site was not being created resulting in the infamous 404 IIS white page.

Here are the steps I used to troubleshoot:

Checked ULS logs: No issues found or recorded
Checked the Timer service: Timer Service was up and running on all servers, restarted anyway to be on safe side.
Restarted IIS on Central Administration App Server.
Checked Jobs and Job Definitions: Discovered one-time only jobs were not being executed. Tried to force run the one-time only jobs to no avail.
Checked Central Administration > Manage Services on the Server: “Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Web Application” service was stopped on the app server. Restarted the service.

Now, all my IIS sites were populated and all the one-time only jobs successfully ran.

October 11, 2014 by Travis Smith Leave a Comment

Manually Cancel a Workflow in Progress

If an error occurs with a workflow, or a workflow stops responding when users submit task information, the workflow can be canceled. When you cancel a workflow, the workflow’s status is set to Canceled, and all of the tasks created by the workflow are deleted.

You must have the Manage Lists permission to cancel a workflow.

If the list or library that contains the item for which you want to cancel a workflow is not already open, click its name on the Quick Launch.
If the name of your list or library does not appear, click View All Site Content, and then click the name of your list or library.
Point to the document or item that is involved in the workflow, click the arrow that appears, and then click Workflows.
Under Running Workflows, click the name of the workflow that you want to cancel.
On the Workflow Status page, under Workflow Information, click Terminate this workflow now.

NOTE If the Terminate this workflow now link does not appear, you do not have the correct permission to perform this task. Contact your administrator if you need to have a workflow canceled.

via Cancel a workflow in progress.