Data base is Up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded

Data base is Up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded

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Product\patch installation or server upgrade required

                      

Issue: After Mount-SpcontentDatabase,having Database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded. On /_admin/DatabaseStatus.aspx. When I click on the /_admin/UpgradeStatus.aspx it shows me the status Succeeded

Resolution: First of all, to identify what site collection doesn't got upgraded.

         Run: stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > upgradestatus.txt

or

PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures  (Run from one of the WFE server)

In below as you see, there no site collection that need upgrade.
If you have any, you can identify them by searching by word "Needs upgrade" in this file.                   

Secondly, run the command in the Power Shell:

For resuming the upgrade, you’ll need the ID for the database :

Get-SPContentDatabase -Identity <your content database name>

When you got the GUID for the database you can then resume the upgrade

         upgrade-spcontentdatabase -id <database GUID>

Finally, check the upgrade status by running stsadm again:

   stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > upgradestatus.txt

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How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

            

Many times SharePoint administrators face an issue that they need to change the root site template once created. For Example, Root site is created with 

search Template and they want to change it to Team site template, How?

Solution: Follow the below steps to make it possible.

·        Login with your Administrator credential on the root site that you want to change

·        Go to Site Settings --> Site Action --> Delete this site             

·        Click on OK

·        Login with your Administrator credential on Central Administration

·        Go to Application Management --> Create Site Collection

·        You can find the new "/" on Web Site Address

·        create the site with desired template

Note: There is no issue If any packages are already deployed under Root site

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Service Applications in SharePoint

Service Applications in SharePoint

I am trying to explain the service applications definitions in this article. Please make a comment if you feel any incorrect.

Access Services — This service application enables you to create, view, edit, and interact using either the access 2013 office client or in the browser.

Access Services 2010 — This service application enables continued maintenance of SharePoint 2010 Access service applications by using Access 2010 and 2013 Office clients. It does not enable users to create new applications.

App Management Service — The App Management Service enables you to install apps from the internal App Catalog or the public SharePoint store.

Business Data Connectivity Service — The Business Connectivity Service (BCS) enables you to upload data (BDC) models that define interfaces of other enterprise line-of-business (LOB) systems and enables connectivity to those systems.

Excel Services — This service application enables viewing and interacting with Excel files from within the browser.

Machine Translation Services — This service provides automatic machine translation of files and sites.

Managed Metadata Service — This service application enables you to manage taxonomy hierarchies, keywords, and social tagging features of SharePoint 2013. This service application also handles content-type publishing across site collections.

Performance Point — This service application supports configuration and monitoring of Performance Point as a business intelligence (BI) product integrated with the Enterprise edition of SharePoint 2013.

PowerPoint Automation Service — This service application enables server-side presentation conversions to and from a variety of file formats.

 Search Service — As its name implies, this service application (which comes with its own topology management configuration) is used to index content and serves search queries performed by users or custom code.

Secure Store Service — This is a credential mapping service to access other enterprise-level service applications or back-end enterprise systems.

State Service — The State Service provides temporary storage of any data that deals with a user session.

 Usage and Health Data Collection — This service application provides storage usage and health information at the farm level, and provides various reporting functionality on such data.

User Profile — This user profile service application is one of the core service applications in SharePoint 2013. This service application supports features such as My Sites, My links, Colleague tracker, profile pages, personal tags and notes, and other social features.

Visio Graphics Service — This service application enables viewing, interacting, and refreshing of Visio diagrams within a browser.

Word Automation Services — This service application enables you to view and edit Word documents in a web browser. It can also be used for document conversions.

Work Management Service — This Work Management Service enables key user-related information to be aggregated to a central location. The service supports a provider model to enable other systems to leverage this service.

Subscription Setting Service — This is the key enabling component of the Multitenancy features provided by the SharePoint 2013 platform

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WHAT’S NEW In SharePoint 2013

WHAT’S NEW In SharePoint 2013

SQL improvements and shredded storage — A number of improvements have been made at the database layer to reduce the impact of scenarios that might invoke full table scans, improve usage of advanced indexing features in SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012,and incorporate a new feature called shredded storage that changes the way SharePoint stores and updates files in SQL. Files are now shredded, and only the changed pieces are updated at the database layer. This reduces the impact caused by document updates.

Distributed cache service — A new cache service, based on Windows Server AppFabricDistributed Caching, has been implemented in SharePoint 2013. By default it is enabled on all web front ends and application servers. It improves performance by caching information

such as social data authentication tokens.

Unified search architecture — SharePoint 2013 unifies the search offerings available in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2013 search provides numerous improvements to content crawling, content processing, analytics processing, indexing, query processing, and search administration components.

 Integrated Request Management (RM) — Request Management provides SharePoint more knowledge and control over incoming requests. This includes throttling and routing requests to appropriate web front ends, prioritization and filtering of requests, and load balancing based on weighting schemes.

New service applications — New service applications include the App Management Service to support and manage apps in SharePoint 2013, the Machine Translation Service that supports automated language translation of files, and the Work Management Service that provides task aggregation functionality.

 Office Web Applications is now a separate product — Office Web Applications have been split into a dedicated product to provide a uniform application for viewing and editing files, including files not necessarily in SharePoint. The Office Web Apps Server supports the Web application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) that SharePoint implements to support office files hosted in SharePoint.

 Web analytics platform — The web analytics platform replaces the web analytics service application that was in SharePoint 2010. It has been completely redesigned and integrated into the search service application of SharePoint 2013.

 Windows Azure — Windows Azure Workflow are now supported for on-premise and hosted deployments in SharePoint 2013.

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Error while deploying solutions in Multi server farm

Error while deploying solutions in Multi server farm

Background: Farm consists of 8-10 servers for Example and doing Installation of Solutions by using the script. In All the servers Solution deployed successfully Except one server, when we check in Manage farm Solutions under system settings showing error.

Error: deployed successfully Except one server. Error shows, Its already deployed in server, You should force to deploy again.

Central admin->system settings->manage farm solutions->specific WSP(shows error)

Solution: Go to the specific server that shows error in manage farm solutions  And run the below command in SharePoint management shell to install solution on specific server.

      Install-spsolution –gacdeployment -force

                        

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