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How to: Install the Language Packs for SharePoint 2013 to deploy site on a different language While installing SharePoint 2013 I ran in to several issues that appear to have corrected by installing SharePoint 2013 in English...
How to: Resolve error “The management agent “MOSSAD-Connection with AD” failed on run profile “DS_FULLIMPORT” because of connectivity issues.” in SharePoint Server 2013 When you are configuring SharePoint Server 2013’s User Profile Service you...
What is www.msftncsi.com? If you are running a firewall one of the most common sites you’ll run across is www.mstfncsi.com. This is because the url www.msftncsi.com is generally used by Windows machines to verity...
What is http://adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com? The web address: http://adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com is generally used by applications like the Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool (to sync with Microsoft’s online Azure AD service) to authenticate against those services.
What is http://clientconfig.microsoftonline-p.net? The site http://clientconfig.microsoftonline-p.net is generally used by Microsoft’s Online applications. For example, if you have downloaded the Active Directory Sync to Azure application you will see that the client uses the web address...
How to: Resolve Windows error 0x8004FE33 indicating client activation failure I’ve been having a few issues with my SharePoint 2013 installation which has forced me to dive into the event log to see what possible errors might...
Sharepoint 2013 error: Windows cannot open the 32-bit extensible counter DLL ASP.NET_2.0.50727 in a 64-bit environment. Contact the file vendor to obtain a 64-bit version. Alternatively, you can open the 32-bit extensible counter DLL by using the 32-bit version...
What is: urs.microsoft.com The URL http://urs.microsoft.com might appear on your firewall or similar network monitoring/protection device quite often as it is the URL used by the Microsoft SmartScreen Filter Services. Generally when you see a...
What is: sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com? As of late I have been paying closer attention to my firewall logs in an effort to increase security but most importantly reduce the lag time we sometimes face when accessing the Internet....
How to: Give SharePoint 2013 crawler sufficient rights/permissions to crawl file shares Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You create file shares on a Windows Server 2012 server. You set up a Microsoft SharePoint 2013 crawler on...
