Access To The Requested Resource(s) Is Denied – SharePoint 2013 – Map AD Attribute To Profile

I ran into this error today, which turned out to be an account problem in this particular instance. The error appears to occur when you are mapping an AD attribute to a profile property. The exact error text is: Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Access to the requested resource(s) is denied at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService. GetCurrentUserFromSecurityIdentifier() at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.GetCurrentUser() at...

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SharePoint 2013 – Select Follow – Unexpected response from server

In SharePoint 2013, I ran into an error today where when I clicked Follow, I was redirected to the following error: Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is ’500′. The status text of response is ‘System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException’. This is actually not a tough one to solve. There are two things that you need to check. First, look at the memory, since activation exceptions generally mean that a OOM exception was thrown. Importantly, look at the noderunner.exe and ensure that it isn’t tanking the box. Secondly, check the...

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SharePoint 2013 Setup – SQL Server Has An Unsupported Version

This is actually a fairly common error to run into. The scenario is pretty straightforward, I ran into it when running SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 with all the update goodness installed and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 with CU 6 and all the rest of the additional shit required to install. Following, run the SP config wizard, and get to the point where you specify the database server / instance,  and boom you run into: SQL server at domain\instance has an unsupported version [some version here] Which is fine, pretty easy error. The part that might not make a ton of sense, or...

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SharePoint 2013 Slow Loading Pages

This is a pretty common complaint, and frankly, one that is not entirely related to the product performance itself. The first thing that you should do if you run into performance problems with page rendering is verify that you are meeting the minimal requirements for 2013 to operate within normal parameters. The biggest requirements you want to ensure that you meet are the memory ones, which are: Foundation-8GB RAM Farm Server-12GB RAM Single Server-24GB RAM You can find more information on these here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx Something else to consider is FAST...

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AppFabric Crashing Affecting NewsFeeds In SharePoint 2013

A client of me deployed the SharePoint 2013 RTM version very recently and was having a problem with newsfeeds not being updated. I went onsite to look at the issue, and in the ULS logs there were a couple different issues, namely that AppFabric was crashing. The exact errors were: Faulting application name: DistributedCacheService.exe, version: 1.0.4632.0, time stamp: 0x4eafeccf Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17651, time stamp: 0x6u73421f Exception code: 0xe0434352 Fault offset: 0x000000000000cacd Faulting process id: 0x142c Faulting application start time:...

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No Search Service In SharePoint 2013 Fix

Playing around with the RTM version of SharePoint Foundation 2013 today I noticed that when I stood up one farm, I got the search service but in a second one, where I felt fairly confident that I followed the same process, I did not. I have to admit that this entire situation to me was pretttttttty confusing. Holistically speaking regarding the provisioned service applications, on server X I had all the service application I expected, however on server Y all I see is application load balancing and the security token service application. So whatever I go and try to create the search service...

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