Tag: Troubleshooting

  • Long live the best SharePoint ULS Viewer

    Long live the best SharePoint ULS Viewer

    Update (15th June 2014): We may see a return of the SharePoint ULS Viewer very soon. Jeremy Thake and Office Dev indicated it is coming back to life very soon.   @jamescallaghan its coming very very soon back to life officially ;-) — Jeremy Thake (@jthake) June 15, 2014   @diverdown1964 @jthake We’re going to…

  • Error when creating new Site Collections via Central Administration

    Error when creating new Site Collections via Central Administration

    A customer recently reported that they were not able to create any new Site Collections within any Web Application in their SharePoint 2013 UAT environment. Instead of being able to create a new Site Collection they repeatedly received the error shown in the image below. I in order to troubleshoot this issue I tried creating a…

  • Configuring a host name with a SSL Certificates in IIS 7

    Configuring a host name with a SSL Certificates in IIS 7

    A customer asked me if I could help troubleshoot their SharePoint environment – they had extended a web application and configured it to use Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with SSL however they were getting errors when accessing the new site. I started troubleshooting the configuration across all the servers in their SharePoint 2013 farm. I…

  • Workaround to “the server is temporarily unavailable” when signing into Lync 2013

    Workaround to “the server is temporarily unavailable” when signing into Lync 2013

    Since our Office 365 tenant was upgraded we’ve been experiencing difficulties with our users signing into Lync 2013. When these users tried to sign in, the Lync 2013 client returned an error saying it could not communicate with the server. The users received the following error. “The server is temporarily unavailable.” Background Firstly our IT guy…