SharePoint Subscription Edition/BDC - The Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store unavailable
Hey Community, today I encountered a problem with a customers SharePoint Server (running Subscription Edition). The customer uses five WebApplications with one of them for MySite, and the other four as collaboration applications for projects, service management and such. The customers wants to use the Business Data Connectivity Service Application to link a SQL datatabase to one of his sharepoints list via external content types. If the customer uses SharePoint Designer 2013 and navigates to External Content Types the error "Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store is currently unavailable". If the customer then tries to add a new External Content Type the error "This could be due to the fact that the server certificate is not configured properly with HTTP.SYS in the HTTPS case. This could also be caused by a mismatch of the security binding between the client and the server." pops up. So i began checking if the BDC service is associated with the webapplication that he's trying to add a new connection to - service application associations are correct. Next thing is i checked on permissions with the BDC, everything seems to be set up correct. After that I tried accessing the _vti_bin/BDC.svc - with no problems I comes up in browser right away, no errors with the certificate. So I dug out a couple of registry entries to see if SchUseStrongCrypto is set, so it uses TLS1.2 and 1.3 instead of the unsecure old stuff, and everything seems to be set up correctly aswell. From there I went to Managed Metadata Service and Secure Store Service, checking on permission, BDC-Service-Account has the permissions to access that services aswell, and they're working properly. Finally I set up a new web application listening on non-ssl (http://bdc.companyname.com/) and with NTLM auth instead of Kerberos. Then created a fresh site collection for testing BDC without HTTPS, Kerberos and certificates. Launched the SharePoint Designer 2013 and could access the External Content Types tab without any problem. So I then put the wildcard-certificate for all the other webapps in place for my new webapplication bdc.companyname.com and set the listening port to 443. After that the External Content Types stopped working with the same error as mentioned above, no connection to the bdc-service whatsoever. The certificate is from a companywide certificate authority and is trusted on all clients and servers accessing sharepoint and its services. Is there something wrong with the setup of that certificate? ULS-Logs throws a 401 on https://a.companyname.com/sites/{site}/_vti_bin/BDC.svc when I try to launch the External Content Types in SharePoint Designer 2013. If anyone has encountered this phenomenon before, please hit me up 😉 Facts again: Autentication: Negotiate (Kerberos) Product: Microsoft SharePoint Subscription Edition Farm-Type: Single Server (Custom) Service not working properly: Business Data Connectivity Service Webapplication: SSL-secured with a wildcard-certificate (*.companyname.com) RSA 4096 SHA-256
Licensing question: Exchange Server SE for CSP M365 E3/E5 customers without Extended Use Rights
Does anyone have any information on licensing the new Exchange Server SE for customers who have M365/O365 E3/E5 purchased via CSP but do not have Extended Use Rights (i.e., no EA/EAS -> no on-prem Office server licenses included)? Specifically: Is it enough to license Exchange Server SE per node only, or Do customers also need to purchase Exchange Server CALs per user (even if they already have M365 E3/E5)? I’ve spoken with multiple licensing distributors and a Microsoft partner contact, but I still haven’t been able to get a definitive answer. According to a comment from Jeremy Carlson and Microsoft’s licensing documentation, certain licenses appear to include "CAL-equivalency rights". Can anyone here confirm whether these CAL-equivalency rights cover access to Exchange Server SE in the CSP E3/E5 (no Extended Use Rights) scenario? licensing reference: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/CALandMLEquivalencyLicenses/MCA#clause-2165-h3-1
Migration Exchange 2016 to 2019 then SE
Hello, we replaced our old Exchange 2016 Server, to Exchange SE. After the update users notified me, that the search is taking long. We also have a lot of Errors in the Eventlog 3056 Scenario: UpdateMasterTable. The app master table could not be saved due to a conflict. Mailbox: x Error: Property conflict: DisplayName: 'BigFunnelPoiNotNeededReason', Resolvable: 'True', OriginalValue: 'Object is null', ClientValue: '2', ServerValue: '2' Property conflict: DisplayName: 'BigFunnelCorrelationId', Resolvable: 'True', OriginalValue: 'Object is null', ClientValue: 'Property: [{0b63e350-9ccc-11d0-bcdb-00805fccce04}:'BigFunnelCorrelationId'] BigFunnelCorrelationId, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .', ServerValue: 'Property: [{0b63e350-9ccc-11d0-bcdb-00805fccce04}:'BigFunnelCorrelationId'] BigFunnelCorrelationId, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .' Property conflict: DisplayName: 'BigFunnelIndexingStart', Resolvable: 'True', OriginalValue: 'Object is null', ClientValue: 'Property: [{0b63e350-9ccc-11d0-bcdb-00805fccce04}:'BigFunnelIndexingStart'] BigFunnelIndexingStart, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .', ServerValue: 'Property: [{0b63e350-9ccc-11d0-bcdb-00805fccce04}:'BigFunnelIndexingStart'] BigFunnelIndexingStart, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .' Property conflict: DisplayName: 'BigFunnelMessageUncompressedPOIVersion', Resolvable: 'True', OriginalValue: 'Object is null', ClientValue: 'Property: [0x36660003] BigFunnelMessageUncompressedPOIVersion, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .', ServerValue: 'Property: [0x36660003] BigFunnelMessageUncompressedPOIVersion, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .' Property conflict: DisplayName: 'BigFunnelPOIContentFlags', Resolvable: 'True', OriginalValue: 'Object is null', ClientValue: 'Property: [0x36630003] BigFunnelPOIContentFlags, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .', ServerValue: 'Property: [0x36630003] BigFunnelPOIContentFlags, PropertyErrorCode: NotFound, PropertyErrorDescription: .' Property conflict: DisplayName: 'BigFunnelPOIUncompressed' Does somebody know how we can fix this problem? We find already that article that is similar but the workaround for the search (not the mirgration) doesnt work for us. We need Outlook cached. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5508363/outlook-search-not-working-reliably-after-exchange
