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All you want to know about Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131904 in SharePoint 2013/2010

This error is very common in SharePoint environment and there are few reasons to cause the issue. But as a root cause every issue is needs to do something with SQL server installed in your SharePoint Server. Cause 1 This is the most common reason and most of the SharePoint environment and it is due to Low Disk Space in your SQL Server. When You might see this when you are creating a New Page or New Item in SharePoint environment. Basically you are trying to contribute to the SharePoint Environment. How to Resolve. If it is SQL Express environment make sure you are not exceeding the limit of 4GB. Check your Hard Disks spaces in SharePoint SQL Server for Log Disks and Date Disks. Cause 2 You might see this error when you are opening a SharePoint List and believe me this is also very common scenario when you are working with SharePoint. This is caused by not having read permission to columns items in the list which might be a lookup list and the current user does not have permi...

Converting O365 / SharePoint App to SharePoint 2013 on Premises Solution

Generally when you are developing SharePoint Provider hosted apps you can simply user SharePoint Online version to do testing and development. But when it comes to actual deployment you may need it to deploy as SharePoint on premises solution. You can do it by simply adding few additional configuration sections to web.config. This is the default web.config you will have when you are working with O365, SharePoint Online Apps. If you want to convert the same application to host in your premises as a provider hosted application. You just need few entries in your web config. You need to specify Authorization and SSL certificate communication settings. After that you can configure your environment to host the application as High Trust SharePoint Application. <configuration> <system.web> <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" /> <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" /> <authorization> <deny users="?...

Add-SPSolution : Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.

Add-SPSolution : Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. At line:1 char:1 + Add-SPSolution + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...dletAddSolution: SPCmdletAddSolution) [Add-SPSolution], InvalidOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletAddSolut Ion I have received this error when I’m trying to deploy an .wsp file to the SharePoint farm using PowerShell Scripts. It’s kind of unusual the error I have got but IIS reset Solved my problem.

Default SharePoint 2013 / 2010 System Pages where you should takecare when you go online

There are list of SharePoint System Pages which inheriting view permission by default. If you are going to make public SharePoint site , you might not want to access these pages by anonymous users or by Form Based Authentication User. There are may ways to restrict the users access to these pages that I will explain later in a different post. Below I’m listing down pages ; those are available in each site under layout mapping. Site Collection and Site Level Recycle Bin Urls /_layouts/15/AdminRecycleBin.aspx /_layouts/15/RecycleBin.aspx User , User Info , Site Permission related Urls _layouts/15/permsetup.aspx This is used to create default groups in SharePoint such as visitors, members and owners. /_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0 All People Url , This can be even used to delete users from the site collection User Information Hidden List Urls /_catalogs/users/detail.aspx /_catalogs/users/simple.aspx These lists are actually available from previous version of SharePoint...

Office Web Apps Not Showing Review Tab in SharePoint 2013

I’m used to do my developments are testing for SharePoint Apps in SharePoint Online rather than using OnPrem deployment singe its easy. But I suddenly found out Office Web Apps on my On Premise environment not showing Review tab on Word Documents which SharePoint Online does. When I searched through the root cause, I have found out OnPrem updates are little bit behind the O365 updates. Apart from Review tab there are few other functionalities missing in OnPrem version. Following list down the current available updates for Office Web Apps. 15.0.4420.1007 RTM  15.0.4481.1005 March 2013 PU         KB2760445 15.0.4481.1508 April 2013 CU         KB2810007 15.0.4505.1001 April 2013 Hotfix     KB2799821 15.0.4517.1003 June 2013 CU         KB2817350 15.0.4535.1000 August 2013 CU         KB2817521 15.0.4551.1003 ...

SharePoint 2013 Automatically Redirects to another Mapping

  There are multiple reason for this behavior of your sharepoint farm. exclusing all other DNS mapping and firewall and proxy configurations there might be a problem in SharePoint Access mapping that will cause the this behaviour. Furthur descrbing the issue… when you type http://abc.company.ae it may redirect to http://d.company .ae ; the second address also you wanted and imagine its in AAM. This behaviour is tottaly because of Aulternate Acess mapping , where you have put abc.company.ae and d.company.ae in same default zone in Alternate Access Mapping. so just delete one entry from Default Zone and put it to another Zone.

Email option in Delivery Extension is not available in SharePoint 2013 integrated Mode

As you already know Report Server can be run either in Native mode or SharePoint integrated mode. Report server has feature of scheduling subscriptions for your reports. Report Subscription allows you to schedule your reports to deliver to recipients. There are few Delivery mechanisms available in SharePoint. Windows File Share Email SharePoint Document Library Null Delivery Provider There might be a situation that you cannot find the Email option in the list. What you need to do is configure Email in Report Server Application. How to Configure Email server for reporting server Go to Central admin and then go to Manage Service Applications Then find the related Reporting Server Service Application and click on SQL Server Reporting Services Service Application Then go to Email Setting Section And Enter you SMTP server details. And save the settings. Now you can find the Email delivery option in the subscription settings.