SharePoint 2013 On-Premises

SharePoint Automatic Updates, Yes or No?

It was recently announced that SharePoint updates will now be released with Windows updates for automatic deployment.  SharePoint Admins everywhere are shaking their heads!  What is Microsoft thinking this time?!  While this seems to be more convenient than having to go out and download those updates manually, there are definitely some considerations all SharePoint admins and server administrators should […]

Microsoft Office does not prompt to check in document

If check-in/out is enabled, or the user has checked out a document from SharePoint 2013 voluntarily, there is an automated feature with Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 that asks the user “Would you like to check in this document?” when attempting to close the Office application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). In this instance I ran […]

Cannot Open in Explorer View

You may get an error when attempting to use Open with Explorer view in SharePoint: “We’re having a problem opening this location in File Explorer.  Add this web site to your Trusted Sites list and try again.” This particular error can be for several reasons. The most common is typically that you haven’t installed Desktop […]

Feed Cache Repopulation Job failure and Distributed Cache Configuration

If you are seeing timer job failures for CD User Profile Service – Feed Cache Repopulation Job and/or errors in your server event log when you run a user profile sync Error 6398  The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob threw an exception.  More information is included below. Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded:Unable to create a […]