2,844 questions with SharePoint Server Management tags

Sort by: Updated
Updated Created Answers
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Failed to connect to the existing server farm located at the specified database server and database name. The database name is not a valid configuration.

I have a two server SharePoint 2016 farm. PROD1 which contain SharePoint and SQL1 which contain database. Now I am trying to join another SharePoint server called PROD2 to the farm. Both PROD1 and PROD2 are Windows 2019. Installation is done but when I…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,513 questions
SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-27T14:21:36.99+00:00
Frank Martin 451 Reputation points
accepted 2024-05-28T10:51:36.51+00:00
Frank Martin 451 Reputation points
0 answers

If client search for something in the wiki search box, they will not find the corresponding content

The search box in a wiki either doesn't search the content or searches the entire content. When the page is created, there is no publish button.

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
1,580 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-28T08:43:45.59+00:00
Zoey Liang 165 Reputation points
1 answer

Guest user cannot access a site.

Hello  Please i need your help on this issue. A guest cannot access a site.  It is happing for just one guest user when trying to access a site. This is the error message:

SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-17T09:51:47.3966667+00:00
IniobongNkanga-8038 266 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-28T08:34:30.37+00:00
Yanli Jiang - MSFT 22,036 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
3 answers

how to resolve "back and restore" error in SharePoint server 2019

I have SharePoint server 2019 in which I am trying to use "Backup and Restore" farm feature. I make the shared folder for backup in db Server and trying to start backup . but it is showiing below error. Directory \KHIHV19EPMDEV\backup does not…

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-20T09:56:37.0066667+00:00
Basim Alvi 41 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-28T08:32:43.01+00:00
Yanli Jiang - MSFT 22,036 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

Where to set the sharepoint email content style beautification template.

Where to set the sharepoint email content style beautification template. Hello: If you want to create a business email such as EDM in "Define Email Message", As shown in the picture below, after the administrator sets the basic HTML template,…

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
523 questions
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
1,580 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-22T02:04:50.0266667+00:00
Colleen Carol 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-28T08:29:30.73+00:00
Yanli Jiang - MSFT 22,036 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

Sharepoint sync issues

Hello    Please i need your help on this issue.   One if our user is experiencing issues with SharePoint sync. They can see folders on the web version, but they are not syncing to their laptop or Explorer. 

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-23T18:16:50.4366667+00:00
Iniobong Nkanga 1,686 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-28T08:25:51.7166667+00:00
Yanli Jiang - MSFT 22,036 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Why Parent pushing their own permissions to child with broken permissions

Scenario: Folder Structure: **Apparel** (broken inheritance) **Hie T1** (broken inheritance) **Hie T2** (broken inheritance) **Name.docx** (broken inheritance) ```1.…

SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-04-16T03:57:54.46+00:00
Hsaniba 100 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-28T07:55:28.5533333+00:00
Andy Holvoet 0 Reputation points
1 answer

sharepoint site settings

Hi All, I am new to SharePoint. I have a SharePoint site with 2 owners and 400 members. The group privacy of the site is set to private. Every day, the owner has to approve or decline various documents and is getting fed up with this task due to…

Microsoft Exchange Online
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Microsoft Exchange Online: A Microsoft email and calendaring hosted service.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
4,258 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-24T21:19:14.92+00:00
Roger Roger 4,961 Reputation points
answered 2024-05-28T07:45:25.3633333+00:00
Yanli Jiang - MSFT 22,036 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

How to restore deleted web application in SP2019 and also restore deleted site collection associated with it?

Hi Team, I have one concern, How to restore deleted web application in SP2019 and also restore deleted site collection associated with that web application? Please suggest.

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
1,580 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-27T13:38:30.2233333+00:00
Sunny Rastogi 106 Reputation points
answered 2024-05-28T01:45:16.9166667+00:00
AllenXu-MSFT 16,871 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

While get user’s list of followed sites, By calling GET /me/followedSites endpoint gives "access denied”

Hi team, I was trying to get user’s list of followed sites, But calling GET /me/followedSites endpoint gives "access denied” and not able to know the root cause for this issue. Please let us know the exact setting that needs to be changed to resolve…

Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph
A Microsoft programmability model that exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft 365 services.
10,870 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
523 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-27T11:59:59.05+00:00
Satyam Rinayat 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-27T17:49:43.9066667+00:00
Satyam Rinayat 0 Reputation points
1 answer

SharePoint Doc link broken

One of my users links a URL to a SharePoint site, but this link gets encoded incorrectly, resulting in a broken link that removes some filters. The encoding for '%3F' is being changed to '?', which removes the filters from the link. Please guide…

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Microsoft Exchange Online: A Microsoft email and calendaring hosted service.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
4,258 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-25T15:55:48.32+00:00
Roger Roger 4,961 Reputation points
answered 2024-05-27T10:37:50.6833333+00:00
Emily Du-MSFT 42,596 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

sharepoint 2013 extremly slow

I've been utilizing SharePoint 2013 on-premise, and it had been functioning smoothly until recently when its performance significantly declined. Within the setup, I've configured workflows for task generation and forwarding. Incremental crawling is…

SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-20T11:30:03.45+00:00
Muhammad Akram 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-27T06:42:03.6+00:00
AllenXu-MSFT 16,871 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

While get user’s list of followed sites (using application permissions). By calling GET /me/followedSites endpoint gives "access denied”

Hi team, I was trying to get user’s list of followed sites (using application permissions). But calling GET /me/followedSites endpoint gives "access denied” and not able to know the root cause for this issue. Is this endpoint is not working, is…

Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph
A Microsoft programmability model that exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft 365 services.
10,870 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
523 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-24T05:16:10.9733333+00:00
Tanvi Mittal 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-05-27T05:40:05.1366667+00:00
Tanvi Mittal 0 Reputation points
1 answer

How to find externally shared SharePoint item links and their users?

Hi guys,  I want to gather two information from you.  Getting all shared links externally for an item, which may have share link type of Edit, View, Review and can't download.  Getting all specific 'people I choose' from the shared link. …

SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-18T03:12:14.15+00:00
Hsaniba 100 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-24T08:56:28.22+00:00
Haoyan Xue_MSFT 20,906 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

While installing Sharepoint Onpremises on my Application server I am facing a configuration failed message at last step

Hi Team, I am facing an SharePoint on-premises installation issue. Firstly, we are installing it on our application server by running the setup file provided in website by Microsoft. so, while installing when we fill out all the details which…

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-21T09:31:11.7133333+00:00
Kishan Belel 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-24T08:41:45.6333333+00:00
Haoyan Xue_MSFT 20,906 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
0 answers

New-OfficeWebAppsMachine : An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to http://owap.example.com:809/farmstatemanager/FarmStateManager.svc.

Hi I'm setting up office web apps multi farm server with https. Master machine is in Local zone and other machine will be in DMZ zone. While adding machine to farm getting this error. New-OfficeWebAppsMachine : An error occurred while receiving the HTTP…

Microsoft Office Online Server
Microsoft Office Online Server
Microsoft on-premises server product that runs Office Online. Previously known as Office Web Apps Server.
599 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-23T13:28:31.73+00:00
Muhammad Tayyab Butt 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-24T07:24:33.9533333+00:00
Muhammad Tayyab Butt 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

About Sharepoint sharing

I have share file from sharepoint to external user and that external user became guest user automatically so I performed the vice versa method this time I share file from the guest tenant to my tenant but no guest user created at my end like previous one…

SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Development
SharePoint Development
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
2,722 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-14T05:31:28.1+00:00
Kuronuma 160 Reputation points
accepted 2024-05-24T02:01:51.5+00:00
Kuronuma 160 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Restrict SharePoint site.

Hi All, I have an Office 365 unified group with an associated SharePoint site. This unified group consists of 10 owners and 700 members. The SharePoint site contains 30TB of data, and one of the owners of the SharePoint site wants to clean up some data…

Microsoft Exchange Online
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Microsoft Exchange Online: A Microsoft email and calendaring hosted service.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
4,258 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-10T22:06:50.07+00:00
Glenn Maxwell 10,326 Reputation points
accepted 2024-05-23T12:23:01.5933333+00:00
Glenn Maxwell 10,326 Reputation points
1 answer

Migrating SharePoint 2010 workflow from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016

Currently SharePoint 2010 style workflows are running on SharePoint 2013 farm on Domain1. I want to migrate site collection to SharePoint 2016 on Domain2 using database attach method. My questions are: Will workflows continue from where they were…

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server Development
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
1,580 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2022-12-26T15:01:21.967+00:00
Frank Martin 451 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-05-23T11:49:23.04+00:00
Bernadette Velarde 0 Reputation points
1 answer

How to find externally shared SharePoint item links and their users?

I am trying to find two pieces of information: All externally shared item links with share link types of Edit, View, Review, and Can't download. All users who have access to the specific 'People I choose' shared link. I have tried using a script…

SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server
A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.
2,254 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
9,884 questions
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server Management
SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,844 questions
asked 2024-05-17T10:33:44.5533333+00:00
Roy_Jaze 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-05-23T09:26:40.07+00:00
AllenXu-MSFT 16,871 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor