Antivirus For SharePoint

Antivirus For SharePoint   

Recently, we have a requirement to do antivirus for our Satellite 2013 farms. For the reason, when I am checking and digging the information I come to know so much of valid information regarding Antivirus that supports SharePoint 2013.I find the information in Bits and pieces,putting altogether in one place for easy understanding and access.please find the details below.

1.   Forefront Protection for SharePoint 2010

This still will work  fine with SharePoint 2013. However as the product is discontinued, If you already have it, it will continue to be supported until December 31st 2015. You will receive AV definition updates until that date as well. After that you need to migrate to some other AV.

2.   AvePoint DocAve Antivirus for SharePoint

This product is discontinued. There is no option to choose this.  

3.   Trend Micro Portal Protect

This supports the SharePoint 2013.Trend Micro released Portal Protect SharePoint Security with SharePoint 2013 support:

 http://www.trendmicro.com/us/enterprise/network-web-messaging-security/portalprotect-microsoft-sharepoint/index.html

4.   Bit Defender

This product is discontinued. There is no option to choose this. This one is not supported for SharePoint 2013.check the Details on below. 

http://www.bitdefender.com/business/security-for-sharepoint.html#System Requirements

5.   Symantec Protection for SharePoint

This supports the SharePoint 2013.find the details below. Released Portal Protect SharePoint Security with SharePoint 2013 support

  http://www.symantec.com/protection-for-sharepoint-servers

6.   McAfee Security for SharePoint

This supports the SharePoint 2013.McAfee updated Security for SharePoint with SharePoint 2013 support:

  http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/security-for-microsoft-sharepoint.aspx

7.   Kapersky Security for SharePoint Server

This supports the SharePoint 2013.Kapersky Security supports SharePoint 2013.     

 http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/business-security/sharepoint

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User profile synchronization service shows starting for long time

User profile synchronization service shows starting for long time

There could be many reasons for the service is in struck and shows starting only. .Why does it get stuck? Well, 15 provisioning runs will be attempted before it gives up. When we hit Start in Services in Server a series of tasks are run, which are to running the second stage of the Forefront Identity Manager setup. Those include things like setting up certificates, windows services, installing database schemas so on. If something is incorrect, it will try all tasks again, and more often than not, fail the service to start. That’s why it appears to be “stuck” when in fact its attempting each of the runs. Of course this can take a while, hence the appearance of being “stuck”. After around 20 to 45 minutes the status will return to Stopped, and you can attempt to start it again.

In some cases, the status will remain as “Starting” even after reboots. In this case something very bad has happened and you are best off throwing away the UPA service application and starting over.

You can however, manually start things back to the state before the starting of the UPS service instance. This can be necessary in some cases, but again, I strongly recommend you start clean by deleting and recreating the UPA. Before Re-creating the Service application ensure that all the below steps tried.

·        Ensure to restart the user profile service and synchronization service

·        Ensure to restart the FIM services

·        Ensure to do IISReset after the services starts

·        Ensure to reboot the server

·        Ensure to have the available space on DB server and SP server.

If all done but still issues not resolved, then try to Delete the Existing UPA service Application and create the new one and check the status.

To find the Error details,Please follow the below.

Browse to the location "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell" and run miisclient.exe .it will show the actual error message which was causing the issue.

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SharePoint Roles

SharePoint Roles:

I am sharing this very simple Topic, because many of the Administrators want to know the difference and the responsibilities.

Owner:  Owner has a complete control over site, list, library and other content placed on site.

Designer: Users having designer role limited to certain activities. User can view, add, update, delete and approve content. Users can even customize the things, they have access to.

Editor: Editor role users are not allowed to customize site design or content. Users can add, edit, update and delete content from the site.

Contributor: Very limited role. They can delete content items which they have created but not by other.

Reader: Users are only allowed to view the content of site. Users are assigned to Reader roles can download and edit the content but cannot save it back on SharePoint site.

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We don’t have any refiners to show you

We don’t have any refiners to show you

                                      
 Issue: while we search for something in search centre, we can get the results but, it shows error” We don’t have any refiners to show you” or a “white space on left side of search centre”

Cause: This is due to the refinement web part is not added on search page or settings are not configured properly.There would be many other reasons this is one of those.

Solution: follow the below steps to add web part and configure settings.

1.   Open the search centre web page

2.   Go to site settings->edit page

        

3.   Click on Add web part         

                                 

4.   Go to search in categories and select Refinement and click ADD      

5.   The web part will be added                           

6.   Go to Edit web part and select Choose Refiners option.

                  

7.   Click on Choose refiners to select the Refiners.

              

8.   Click OK once selected and go back to Search and check the output.             

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The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered

The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered            

Problem occurs when you start SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Power shell) but don’t get access to the farm. You would be unable to run commands. 

 Solution 1:Run Power shell with another user who don’t see above message e.g. Farm Admin

 Solution  2: 

  

1.    Execute “Add-SPShellAdmin -Username domain\User”(required user that you want to get Access to Power shell)

2.    Successful execution will ensure that desired user is Shell Admin and can execute commands. 

                            http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607596.aspx 

Solution  3:

As you can see it is Power Shell Version 3.0 which doesn’t support SharePoint 2010

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ronalg/archive/2013/07/29/10382902.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

to resolve the issue, change Power Shell start menu short cut path and added –version 2.0 switch parameter, below is the complete path with –version 2.0 switch.

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WINDOWSPOWERSHELL\V1.0\PowerShell.exe -version 2.0 -NoExit " & ' C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\POWERSHELL\Registration\\sharepoint.ps1' "

Add –version 2.0 switch;

By doing this  could run Power Shell 2.0 which support SharePoint 2010 commands

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23151.sharepoint-2010-cmdlets-with-featuredependencyid-are-not-registered.aspx

  

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The term is not recognized as the name of a CMDLET

The term is not recognized as the name of a CMDLET

     

The issue occurs some times while we run the CMDLETS on windows power shell or SharePoint management shell. Its due to the path issue, we can’t simply type the name of a script file in order to run it. Even with the execution policy configured to permit scripts, must precede the script filename with a path. you’ll see the” .\ “path in use, which refers to the current directory. You could also provide any other absolute or relative path in order to run a script—but you must provide a path of some kind. 

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SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)

SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)                  

I am giving my personal views as per my experience on up gradation of SharePoint. If anyone has any concerns please make a comment.

Initially, we cannot directly Upgrade from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013.we must follow the 2 stage Upgrade process here. which means, we must upgrade MOSS 2007->SharePoint 2010 first and then SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 only.

we must consider so many factors for upgrade. From SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 it must be through data base attach method only. The In place upgrade method is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.We must build a new SharePoint 2013 farm for Upgrade from SharePoint 2010.providing the steps below for a single web application as in brief. We need to follow the same steps for other web applications as well to perform the upgrade.

We must take care of below before doing the up gradation.

Site templates, web parts, site themes, workflows, web templates, site definitions….

We can only do upgrade in below order only. we can’t do upgrade directly from different versions of SharePoint.

SharePoint foundation 2010 -> SharePoint foundation 2013

SharePoint server 2010-> SharePoint server 2013

SharePoint enterprise 2010-> SharePoint enterprise 2013

SharePoint, project server enterprise 2010-> SharePoint, project server enterprise 2013

There is another issue also while we upgrade the site from SP 2010->SP 2013,It should be authentication issue. Classic authentication method is deprecated in SP 2013. So to upgrade site from SP 2010->SP2013 which is created with Classic authentication in SP2010, first need to change the authentication from Classic->Claims and then upgrade in SP 2013.

1.   Build a new SharePoint 2013 farm first

2.   Go to SQL Server and take backup of the content database and restore it into your new SQL server.

3.   Create new web application and site collection in SP2013.

4.   Now remove the content database for the newly created  web application in SharePoint 2013.Follow below to do

·        Go to central Administrator

·        Click on Application Management and then

·        click on content database => Manage Content database

·        Then select the newly created web application URL in sp 2013

·        Click on the database which is on the left side.

·        Then go to remove content database part and check the checkbox then it will prompt you popup there click on then again ok button.

5.   Now test whether the web application still having relation with the content database by using the following command.

Test-SPContentDatabase-Name "name of content database"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".

6.   Now go to SQL server and delete the database related to SP 2013 manually

7.   Now restore the 2010 content data base manually.

8.   Now we need to attach the restored content database  by using following command.

Mount-SpContentDatabase-Name "Database name"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".

9.   Now we can get following error like “Upgrade completed with following errors".

10.           Finally Migration has been completed successfully

For Service Applications: we only can upgrade below 6 service applications from SP 2010->SP 2013

·        User profile

·        Managed meta data

·        BDC

·        Search

·        Performance point

·        Secure store

There is another process to upgrade service applications. We should run by power shell. 

2007 needs to be patched at SP3 to upgrade to 2010.

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Item was not crawled because of a password change. Update password and retry crawling

Item was not crawled because of a password change. Update password and retry crawling            

                  

The issue is due to the password change for the Content access account, The password is not updated for account in search.

To resolve the issues follow the below steps.

·        Open the central administration page

·        Go to Application management->Manage Service applications

·        Click on Search service Application

·        Check for the Default content access account                      

                 

·        Click on the account and update the new password

                       

·        Once done, Run the crawl again and check for the results.

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