Issue: Your crawl component stops responding and the content source is is stuck on a crawling, starting, or stopping status.  You may try a multitude of solutions and eventually attempt to delete and recreate the service application.  Upon creation of the search service application and opening it you are greeted by this message. Resolution:  This…

It appears that if you are running 64 bit Microsoft Office then you are unable to use the 32 bit Active X controls that allow the File Upload functionality. Go into your control panel->uninstall programs, select Microsoft Office 2010 and click Change. Go to Office Tools and from the dropdown choose Run All From Hard…

Scenario: You are working in a site collection where the root site was instantiated from a web template.  You have then created subsites which you wish to save as a web template.  Upon doing so, you receive an error. Issue: Error exporting the list named “Announcements” at the URL: Lists/Announcements If you rename the list…

So you have setup your Metadata Service Application (including the content type hub url), you configured the proxy (making sure to check the consume content type checkbox), and you have published your content types!  So everything is working right?  Wrong. What site did you use as the site collection root?  If custom, what was the…

Detail:  Following databases have large amounts of space allocated on the disk but not in use. This may be due to recent deletion of data form the database, or because the database has been pre-grown to a larger size. This database will take up a larger amount of space on the file system unless it…

Detail:  Using built-in accounts like Network Service or Local System as application pool or as service identities is not supported in a farm configuration.  The following services are currently running as built-in identities on one or more servers: SPTraceV4(Windows Service) SPSearch4(Windows Service) Solution:  SPSearch4 will be assigned to run under a domain user with no…

Detail:  A default zone url is pointing to the machine name of a web front end.  Since this installation has more than one web front end, this can result in a variety of errors including incorrect links and failed operations. Solution:  A unique domain name will be created for the web application and once the…

Detail:  InfoPath Forms Services is not functional on the following Web applications because there is no service connection configured for the State Service. Solution:  A State Service Application has to be created and associated with the active web applications.  This will be done via PowerShell as follows: Create a new state service application: New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name…

Detail: (Truncated due to length) [MissingFeature] Database [WSS_Content] has reference(s) to a missing feature: Id = [fc5e2840-0b48-42eb-9ad7-076f5add58ad]. The feature with Id fc5e2840-0b48-42eb-9ad7-076f5add58ad is referenced in the database [WSS_Content], but is not installed on the current farm. The missing feature may cause upgrade to fail. Please install any solution which contains the feature and restart upgrade…

Detail:  Using highly-privileged accounts as application pool or as service identities poses a security risk to the farm, and could allow malicious code to execute.  Solution:  The farm account should be removed from the local Administrators group on all servers in the farm.