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It goes without saying that every part of an enterprise relies on technology. With more and more technology providers coming to the fore, it is not uncommon to find a variety of technology platforms across the units of an enterprise. To keep the pieces of the enterprise moving together there is often a need for integrating the platforms, which are built by different providers. This blog provides a brief overview of ServiceNow, and what is involved in integrating ServiceNow and SharePoint 2013. What is ServiceNow? ServiceNow is a software platform that supports IT Service Management and automates common business processes. It’s a software as a service (SaaS) platform that offers targeted solutions for various units of an enterprise like IT, HR, Operations and IT Business Management. More than two thousand enterprises around the world use the ServiceNow platform extensively for their daily operations. ServiceNow brings the following key benefits for an enterprise: • Improves service

Resolution : IIS  Reset

All managers from the company were waked with this emails like: Subject: The My Site of X Y is scheduled for deletion The My Site of X Y is scheduled for deletion in 14 days. As their manager you are now the temporary owner of their site. This temporary ownership gives you access to the site to copy any business-related information you might need. To access the site use this URL: https://mysites.portal.domain.local/personal/xy Pretty uncomfortable. The day before this I deleted the AD Sync Connection from SharePoint's User Profile Service Application and this caused it. The sync job ran and with no connections SP thought that all the users have been deleted. Theoretically there should be 14 days until these profiles are deleted but for some reason I can't see past activity for the use users. Long story short, I need to restore MySites from a backup .   The Process The restoring process is simpler than thought. Later I found out that I had to restore the User Profi

Issue: Unable to add user properties for user profile connection. Getting Unable to process Create message error in the event log and ULS logs. Error’s in the event log and ULS Logs: OWSTIMER.EXE (0x075C)            0x0DD4 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles      9q17     High            UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure ILM MA, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Faults.ServiceFaultException: Unable to process Put message     at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Client.Resource.Update()     at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManager.UpdateResource()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Synchronization.ILMMAConfiguration. UpdateSQLConnectionInformation(String server, String databaseName, String user, String domain, SecureString password)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileConfigManager.UpdateILMMA(String databaseServerIlm, String da

ISSUE Error when creating the search service application- Errors were encountered during the configuration of the Search Application" CAUSE * We see the following in the ULS logs When the search service application creation fails * The call to SearchServiceInstance.Provision (server 'GmallyaSP') failed. Setting back to previous status 'Disabled'. System.InvalidOperationException: Service is offline at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Provision() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminUtils.DeployLocalServiceInstance[T](T localSearchServiceInstance) RESOLUTION * Use the PowerShell commandlets to bring the search service online. Following are the PowerShell commandlets I used to resolve to verify the status of the service and then bring the service instance online: $ssa= Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -local $ssa RESULTS: TypeName : SharePoint Server Search Description : Index content and

Environment: SharePoint 2010, InfoPath 2010 web forms, REST data accessing data in SharePoint lists Only users with "Read" permission level see this error when the REST data connection is queried. "A Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service error occurred while processing your request. For more information, contact your server farm administrator. Click Start Over to load a new copy of the form. If this error persists, contact the support team for the Web site. Click Close to exit this message. " * After comparing the Permissions for "Read" and "Contribute" permission levels, the following permission is needed in order for "Read" users to access data via REST web service. * "Browse Directories  -  Enumerate files and folders in a Web site using SharePoint Designer and Web DAV interfaces. " Click Submit button on the page to save the change.

Error : We are getting below error while loading infopath form in SharePoint 2010: Solution : This has nothing to do with Infopath forms data connection or republish. We have to make an entry in HOST file for each of WFE's & adding site binding in the IIS web site for the web application having issue. This fixed the issue.

This script will list all SP Servers and restarts IIS on all of them. add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $spserver = get-spserver | ?{$_.role -eq "Application"} foreach ($server in $spserver) {     write-host "Performing IIS Reset on Server:"$server.name     iisreset $server.Name }