Audit PowerPivot and PerformancePoint - are they being used?
Hi, I am doing an audit of SP2013 environment. I can see the service applications and configuration for PowerPivot and PerfPoint are all set but I need to understand if they are being used at all. My understanding is that you can have data connections (e.g. from Excel) to external databases and display the results/dashboards in SharePoint. Is there a way to find if those services are being used? e.g. do I need to find specific files like data sources or data connections? what type of files would I need to look for? Any other tip welcomeWorkflow inconsistencies: Collect Feedback 2010 WF on SharePoint Server 2013
I am trying to troubleshoot inconsistencies on an out of the box 'Collect Feedback 2010' workflow running on SharePoint Server 2013. Task assignees mark their tasks as complete - sometimes this is reflected in the Workflow History but not in Task List, and sometimes in the Task List but not the History. The visual representation of the workflow doesn't always show the green check mark on users who have marked their tasks as complete either. The result being users getting 'overdue task' emails for items they've completed. Has anyone had this happen before? The WF is so simple, I'm wondering if it's a server issue. Not sure if this matters, but the WF tasks are being assigned to a Security Group that has other Groups nested inside. Thanks in advance for any ideas here.
Configure trust for search between two SharePoint Server farms
I am trying to setup a Federated Search between a SP2016 farm and SP2013 farm with the following setup as described here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn133749(v=office.16).aspx Details: Sending Farm: SP2013 farm running SSA Receiving Farm: SP2016 farm running Cloud SSA (SPO result source set as default result source) I run into issues executing the step: New-SPTrustedRootAuthority -Name "SendingFarm" -MetadataEndPoint https://<SendingFarm_web_application>/_layouts/15/metadata/json/1/rootcertificate PowerShell shows: System.InvalidOperationException: The security token service metadata document could not be parsed. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSecurityTokenServiceMetadataClient.Deserialize(String encodedMetadataDocument) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSecurityTokenServiceMetadataClient.DownloadMetadata(Uri metadataEndpointUri) at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.Util.SPSecurityTokenServiceMetadataCmdletUtil.ExtractRootCertificateFromMetadataEndPoint(Uri metadataEndPoint) at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletNewTrustedRootAuthority.CreateDataObject() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPNewCmdletBase`1.InternalProcessRecord() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdlet.ProcessRecord() From ULS: An error occurred while downloading and parsing the json metadata document. Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: The security token service metadata document could not be parsed. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSecurityTokenServiceMetadataClient.Deserialize(String encodedMetadataDocument) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSecurityTokenServiceMetadataClient.DownloadMetadata(Uri metadataEndpointUri) I have directly accessed the metadata endpoint "https://<SendingFarm_web_application>/_layouts/15/metadata/json/1/rootcertificate" and I can see the JSON payload as expected. Anybody have similar experience or can point to a possible cause what might be going wrong?
