Category: Troubleshooting
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SharePoint Custom Solution Crashes IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe) – Part 1
Had a doozy of an issue the other day. All of a sudden, a SharePoint farm that has been chugging along with no changes suddenly started having some weird issues. Users could open, view, edit documents, but as soon as they attempted a save or an upload of a new document things started to go…
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Field or Property ‘TimeZoneId’ does not exist when using SharePoint Search
Our test environment was giving me issues today. It’s an error that was reported and supposedly fixed nearly 18 months ago. When typing a query in the text box, the initial search works, but when using a refiner or changing the query the result would return an error Field or Property ‘TimeZoneId’ does not exist. …
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Unable to Add Existing Site Columns to Content Types in SharePoint
While deploying a new solution to our test environment for my client the other day I found that I was unable to add existing site columns to content types within the SharePoint site I was working in. No real reason given. As you can see from the screenshot below the GUI wasn’t much help: However,…
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Accessing SharePoint Site: “The context has expired and can no longer be used”
Just a quick little note of a quick solution I came up for a weird problem that occurred on my dev server. I was preparing for a presentation and when accessing the site that contained all settings, data and code for the presentation was immediately receiving the error message: “The context has expired and can…
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Tip for Backing Up with Export-SPWeb and Large Data Sets
Today I was in the middle of testing how our environment works with large content databases and ran into an issue with the command Export-SPWeb and large data sets. This might be known already do some of you, but I have been working with SharePoint a long time and didn’t know this, so wanted to…