Category: Troubleshooting
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JavaScript files not Updating in Site Assets or other SharePoint Libraries
So ran into a very weird issue. I had just finished patching our Dev and Test servers to the November 2017 CU. And after this occurred, any updates to solutions using JavaScript injection was not working. I’ll describe the problem in more detail here right away, but I want to make sure I give a…
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SharePoint Patch Process Fails: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException – Invalid object name ‘Webs’
I have been working with SharePoint for a long time. An error was encountered not long ago that I have never seen when patching a SharePoint server (and unfortunately I have seen a lot of errors over the years). While running the configuration manager I received the following error: “An exception of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was…
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Another Cause of a SharePoint Workflow Stuck at Starting or Started
There are already a ton of posts out there where a SharePoint 2013 workflow becomes stuck at started or starting. Well I have another one. This problem actually originated in a SharePoint 2013 farm. If you are using SharePoint Online, the cause is actually pretty easy to determine. So for those of you not lucky…
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SharePoint People Picker Error – Item cannot be more than 256 characters.
Had a colleague ask me the other day if there was a limit on the People Picker control in SharePoint. Reason being is that she had a Person field setup to accept multiple users and had a group that was constantly getting the error “Item cannot be more than 256 characters” when trying to enter…
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SharePoint Custom Solution Crashes IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe) – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed an issue we were having in one of our SharePoint 2013 farms and how I determined the issue was occurring because of a set of event receivers acting on the library. In this post, I will discuss the code being used and what the final result was…