Which URLs must be configured on a firewall/ proxy in order to run a diagnostic package?

30/06/2015 Leave a comment

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2598970

The following URLs are accessed when you run a diagnostic package:

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News About Migration into SPO and CSOM Throttlings

27/06/2015 Leave a comment

The new APIs that are available to help with migrations moving forward

We have great documentation that talks through what it means to be blocked, how to look for it (HTTP 429s), and how to avoid it at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn889829.aspx.

SPO Migration PowerShell cmdlets are designed to move on-premises content from file shares and SharePoint Server libraries and One Drive to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Requiring minimal CSOM calls, it leverages Azure temporary BLOB storage to scale to the demand of large migration of data content.

SPO Migration User Guide: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt203923.aspx

Video of the new API : https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3153

CreateMigrationJob:       https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/microsoft.sharepoint.client.site.createmigrationjob.aspx

DeleteMigrationJob:       https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/microsoft.sharepoint.client.site.deletemigrationjob.aspx

GetMigrationJobStatus:  https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/microsoft.sharepoint.client.site.getmigrationjobstatus.aspx

Doc for the PowerShell Commands : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt143608.aspx

(Special thanks for my colleague Dustin)

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About UserNotFoundException when SharePoint AD LDS (LDIF) sync operation

24/06/2015 Leave a comment

You are trying to Configure profile synchronization using a Lightweight Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) file in SharePoint 2013 Using the following article : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff959234.aspx. You have successfully used this method in your SharePoint 2010 farm, however when you try to configure it in SharePoint 2013 and attempt a synchronization, you an ma-extension-error.

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. —> Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserNotFoundException: A user with the specified SID could not be found in the domain.  Check the spelling of the account name ‘johnd@contoso.com’ and try again. —> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.Win32.AdvApi.LookupAccountName(String lpSystemName, String lpAccountName, IntPtr Sid, Int32& cbSid, StringBuilder ReferencedDomainName, Int32& cchReferencedDomainName, SID_NAME_USE& peUse)

Reason for this error

The objectSid attribute was not included in the LDIF file.  The objectSid is required in SharePoint 2013 to process the accounts listed in the LDIF file.

For resolution :

1. Go to the LDIF MA, right click and select properties
2. Select Configure Attributes
3. Select New
a. Name: objectSid
b. Type: Binary
c. Select Ok
4. Go to the LDIF MA, right click and select properties
5. Now Select “Define Object Type”
6. From the Object types: select user and click Edit
7. Select objectSid and put it into the May have attributes:
8. Select OK
9. Select Configure Attribute Flow
10. Expand the user object
11. From the Data source attribute, select objectSid
12. From the Metaverse attribute, select objectSid
13. Mapping Type is Direct
14. Flow Direction is Import
15. Select New
16. objectSid displays in the Configure Attribute Flow
17. Select OK
18. Right click the MOSS MA and select properties
19. Select Configure Attribute Flow
20. Verify that the SID to objectSid attribute flow exists
21. Select OK
22. Open your LDIF file for edit
23. Add the objectSid to your accounts
24. Save the file
25. Run a Full Sync

An example from my test LDIF file

dn: CN=John Doe,CN=Roles,CN=Partition,DC=Contoso,DC=COM
changetype: add
displayName: John Doe
userPrincipalName: johnd@contoso.com
sn: Doe
mail: johnd@contoso.com
givenName: John
objectClass: user
objectSid:: AQUAABTfkXMrX0BU0ChCzd4FhEeWw8XrYl1T+Q==

-How you find the correct sid ? You need to extract correct sid from AD LDS.
ldifde -f “c:\import.ldif” -s “localhost:389″ -d “CN=partition,dc=contoso,dc=com” -r “(objectClass=user)” -l “dn,changetype,displayName,userPrincipalName,mail,givenName,sn,objectSid”

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Technet Distributed Cache Articles are updated !

12/06/2015 Leave a comment

Heads up , Technet Distributed Cache Articles are updated !

Plan for feeds and the Distributed Cache service in SharePoint Server 2013
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219572.aspx

Microsoft has updated the following sections:

• Capacity planning for the Distributed Cache service
• Memory allocation

The memory issues have been noted here. Now we are requiring at least 34GB of memory for 16Gb Cache Servers. If more than 16GB’s are required, we now require at least 2 cache servers

Manage the Distributed Cache service in SharePoint Server 2013
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219613.aspx

Microsoft has updated the following section:

*Fine-tune the Distributed Cache service by using a Windows PowerShell script
*Changed the Graceful Shutdown procedure

In the “Fine-tune the Distributed Cache” section we called out the MaxConnectionsToServer issue and have a script to tune these settings. We are also tuning the “DistributedLogonTokenCache” and “DistributedViewStateCache” as the defaults are too small.

This should eventually eliminate many support cases that occur after customers follow bad advice from random Blogs and utilize default settings.

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