I was investigating an issue in SharePoint 2013 where we got an error while using #hashtags in our Newsfeed textarea. The tagging service is currently unvailable. Please try again later. Scenario We have three web applications and two managed metadata service...
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Month: November 2013Publish IIS site with TMG pre-authentication
We wanted to enable Forms Based Authentication with AD for a SharePoint site and a standard IIS site with Forefront Threat Management Gateway. We had the issue that we already created the rule with no authentication and we did not receive a login screen for the...
The Specified user or domain group was not found
I got this error today when someone wanted to create a document set in SharePoint 2013. This small post shows a possible solution to this issue. Scenario A user wants to create a document set in a standard document library but faces the below error. The specified user...
Renaming an AD group in SharePoint 2013
This post is part 3 of the guide to move Active Directory Groups in SharePoint 2013. We have gotten the identity claim in part 1 and migrated the AD group in part 2 but now we want to change the name for the SharePoint User Information List. We have seen that the Name...
Migrating AD groups in SharePoint 2013
This post is part 2 of the guide to move Active Directory groups in SharePoint 2013. Microsoft added the PowerShell command move-spuser to migrate a user account in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. We can leverage this command to migrate AD groups in SharePoint....
Get identity claim for AD groups in SharePoint 2013
This post will show a couple ways to get the identity claim for Active Directory groups that are being used in SharePoint 2013. We are going to need this identity claim for migrating Active Directory groups in SharePoint 2013. This makes it easy to migrate the...