I keep getting an internal server error message when I use the ootb search feature on a site. 

Have checked the site collection features for search webpart activation.  I have checked within CA for the services, Search Query and site settings service and SharePoint Server Search, being started on the 2 WFEs.  On my 2 Apps, the same.

Please help.  What are we missing?

Thanks

CS

We have two web front server and one application server and two instances for database server and we have to migrate complete farm from one data center to other data center with minimal downtime and end user impact.

Please provide your best input on this.

Thanks in advance.

Hi there, 

Does someone have a PowerShell script that can change logo URL for ALL site collections > subsites > sub-subsite > sub-sub-sub sites and so on. As many levels deep as there exist? That will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Hello SharePoint Fam,

I have been adding Best Bets with no problem for almost a year now and for some reason now I am getting error:

Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid.

Each time I try to create a new Best Bet/Keyword.  I am using all ootb functions and not sure where to look to resolvethis.  I downloaded the disposechecker tool but not really sure how to use this tool.  I am only seeing this error with new Best Bet keywords and no where else.  Not sure if error is coming from keywords.aspx, masterpage or if there is application pool issue.

Please Help somebody!!!!! Thanks N Advance :) 

Hi, I have an application pool that has been giving me trouble every few days @ a specific time, around 2am. At this time, the app pool seems to get corrupted or something like that and will prevent the associated web application from rendering content. Things to note:

- It's happening only on 1 of 3 WFEs out of a 5 server farm. The affected WFE has rotated, meaning if the app pool gets corrupted on WFE1 it won't happen on WFE3 and vice-versa.

- The affected application pool does not get shut down.

- Other web apps and application pools are not affected.

- This only happens to the application pool dedicated to My Sites.

- To fix the problem, recycling the application pool will resolve it.

- I have the application pool set to auto-recycle about 15 mins prior to it becoming corrupted.

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Digging through the diagnostic logs, I've made a correlation to these entries but haven't been able to figure out what's happening:

05/02/2012 02:01:45.36 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x25C8) 0x2668 SharePoint Foundation Topology 2q0k Medium Disposing of an SPConfigurationDatabase reference from:  

05/02/2012 02:01:45.36 w3wp.exe (0x0ED4) 0x17E4 SharePoint Foundation Database 8u1d High Flushing connection pool 'Data Source=SPDB;Initial

05/02/2012 02:01:45.36 w3wp.exe (0x0ED4) 0x17E4 SharePoint Foundation Topology 2myf Medium Enabling the configuration filesystem and memory caches.  Catalog=SPP_ConfigDB;Integrated Security=True;Enlist=False;Connect Timeout=15'  

05/02/2012 02:01:45.36 w3wp.exe (0x0ED4) 0x17E4 SharePoint Foundation Topology 2myc High Creating a new filesystem watcher for the configuration cache.  

05/02/2012 02:01:45.36 stsadm.exe (0x1258) 0x24CC SharePoint Foundation Topology 8xqz Medium Updating SPPersistedObject SPFarm Name=SPP_ConfigDB. Version: 2500101 Ensure: False, HashCode: 7715150, Id: bec3ef52-3d8b-4020-b243-2c63ff843360, Stack:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.BaseUpdate()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Update()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPBackwardCompatibilityPropertyMapper.SetClusterProperty(SPAdministrationWebApplication app, String key, String value)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPBackwardCompatibilityPropertyMapper.UpdateClusterProperties(SPAdministrationWebApplication application, StringDictionary sd)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPClusterPropertyBagger.UpdateProperties(StringDictionary data)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin.SPSetProperty.Run(StringDictionary keyValues)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin.SPStsAdmin.RunOperation(SPGlobalAdmin globalAdmin, String strOperation, StringDictionary keyValues, SPParamCollection pars)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin.SPStsAdmin.Main(String[] args)  

05/02/2012 02:01:45.37 w3wp.exe (0x0B9C) 0x26F8 SharePoint Foundation Database 8u1d High Flushing connection pool 'Data Source=SPDB;Initial Catalog=SPP_ConfigDB;Integrated Security=True;Enlist=False;Connect Timeout=15'  

05/02/2012 02:01:45.37 w3wp.exe (0x0B9C) 0x26F8 SharePoint Foundation Topology 2myf Medium Enabling the configuration filesystem and memory caches. 

05/02/2012 02:01:45.37 w3wp.exe (0x0B9C) 0x26F8 SharePoint Foundation Topology 2myc High Creating a new filesystem watcher for the configuration cache.   

05/02/2012 02:01:45.37 w3wp.exe (0x0ED4) 0x17E4 SharePoint Foundation Topology 888a Monitorable Can not find farm object in configuration database  

05/02/2012 02:01:45.45 w3wp.exe (0x0ED4) 0x0E6C SharePoint Foundation Topology 888j Medium System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.SPFileSystemCacheWatcher.OnChanged(Object source, FileSystemEventArgs e)  

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In the event viewer, the entries that occur during the suspect time frame is related to the unloading/loading of Forefront Protection for SharePoint. Ex:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation
Date:          5/2/2012 2:02:12 AM
Event ID:      3
Task Category: General
Level:         Information
Keywords:     
User:          PROD\SVC-SPP-AppPool
Computer:      ALVPSPW03.prod.quest.corp
Description:
946235190: #96000f: Loading antivirus scanner...
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Any suggestions as to how I can go about tracking down the root cause for these app pool meltdowns? Thanks!

http://www.henryong.com

My understanding is that the DOC ID looks up the absolute URL and then attempts to open the document.

My question is, how often does the data "refresh". That is, if you change the name of the document, or change the location, in theory the DOC ID service should update the absolute URL from the old name to the new name. But on my SharePoint site it is not instantaneous and often takes overnight for the record relationship to update.

that is:

 http://sitecollection/web/_layouts/DocIdRedir.aspx?ID=2960-489 =http://sitecollection/site/SharedDocuments/DocumentV1.0.docx

so when I change the name of the DocumentV1.0 to DocumentV2.0

 http://sitecollection/web/_layouts/DocIdRedir.aspx?ID=2960-489 =http://sitecollection/site/SharedDocuments/DocumentV2.0.docx

 Yet when you click on http://sitecollection/web/_layouts/DocIdRedir.aspx?ID=2960-489 not long after changing the name (or location) I get a HTTP 404 error. Yet tomorrow I wont, so therefore the service has updated the static URL match.

How often does the DOC ID service refresh the data, and where is the setting to change it to more frequently on change of document name or location?

Thanks for any replies.

John

In my Servers in Farm I have

SHAREPOINT_DB   Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Database

SQLCL-SPOINT Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Database

SHAREPOINT_DB - is the alias configured on all the wfe's to point to the actual database server which used to be 

SQLCL-SPOINT\SHAREPOINT.   We have recently migrated all the databases off of db server to a different VM SQL-SPDBP  and updated all the cliconfg to point to the new server.   I am not really sure WHY SLQCL-SPOINT is showing up as a database server. All of the service applications with the exception of Usage app use the sharepoint_db alias.   The Usage app is the only one that has the sqlcl-spoint/sharepoint  hardcoded in the config.  I will be using powershell to update that pointer shortly.  That being said .. could that cause SQLCL-SPOINT to show up in servers in farm?  Is there a way to verify nothing else is looking at that server before I remove server from Central Admin?

Thank you for any replies!

10/29/2014 22:01:28.14 w3wp.exe (0x2020)                      0x15ACSharePoint Foundation         General                      8ncaVerbose Application error when access /_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx, Error=Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or the provided impersonation level is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070542)dfb98558-c705-4014-84cf-c1ce041aea42

Please help.

Ok, here is another strange item in my life of Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise.....

The certificate for my sharepoint expired.....no big deal, I made a new one, set it up in IIS  (bindings)

Life was all happy and jolly again.....until

Until I restart the server  (windows updates)

upon reboot, I try to go to sharepoint....instant fail   (Page cannot be displayed)  instant as in, it doesn't even try

no errors in ANY log, not even a (no, i dont wanna)

the fix:

Go to IIS, change the bindings to any other cert, click OK

edit bindings again, set it to the correct cert...... back to being happy and jolly.

Any ideas on that one??

(yes, i even waited a good 10 to 15 min after reboot)

but when I do the quick cert swap back and forth, it works just fine and dandy

I am trying to create an audience with a rule that compares values from a managed metadata user property but when i compile the rules it cant find any member to the rules. ("Number of members:0"). Every other values in the user property works but no property that is using managed metadata.Isnt this supported in SharePoint 2013???

Thanks

Stefan

i have a Team Site has sheet protection turned on which means that Excel Web App cannot open the file. Clicking on the file entry means a message is correctly displayed confirming this but the option to 'Open in Excel' is greyed out.

Hi,

Recently, we needed to add a new server in our farm. The SharePoint Wizard asks us a passphrase that we didn't have... So we change it with PowerShell. After this operation, we could integrate the new server in the farm and everything seems to be OK.

Unfortunately, the SharePoint 2010 Timer Service was in error on one of our server in the farm. The Master Passphrase Deployment job has not run on this server and now, he didn't have the last PassPhrase. Solution deployment failed on this server and some operations are not available.

We try to fix this problem by running the Set-SPPassPhrase with -LocalServerOnly parameter on this server but we have an error message:

$passphrase=ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $passphrase -LocalServerOnly
Set-SPPassPhrase : Error during decryption. Ensure the passphrase is correct.

In the ULS Logs we found this error:

Decryption failed with error: 0  at     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCredentialManager.DecryptWithKey(Byte[] rgbEncryptedPassphrase, Byte[] rgbKey)      at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCredentialManager.set_MasterKey(Byte[] value)      at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCredentialManager.CreateMasterKey(Boolean generateKeyIfNeeded, SecureString sstrPassphrase, Boolean localOnly)      at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletSetPassPhrase.InternalProcessRecord()      at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdlet.ProcessRecord()      at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()     at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoExecute()

We also tried to change the passphrase on the entire farm again but when the replication job run on this server, we have this message in the Event Viewer:

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPMasterPassphraseDeploymentJobDefinition (ID 072bcb57-fabb-4136-83cc-3c5607c56d5d) threw an exception. More information is included below.
Error during decryption. System error code 0.

And we have this ULS message:

Decryption failed with error: 0 at at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCredentialManager.DecryptWithKey(Byte[] rgbEncryptedPassphrase, Byte[] rgbKey)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPMasterPassphraseDeploymentJobDefinition.Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvokeInternal.Invoke(SPJobDefinition jd, Guid targetInstanceId, Boolean isTimerService, Int32& result)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvoke.Invoke(TimerJobExecuteData& data, Int32& result)         0cce58bf-a725-406a-b232-9cdf14fc1fde

Any Ideas ? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,

short question on sharepoint, sure, very easy for you.

We are currently building a sharepoint with the following characteristics:

Folder structure:
Hierarchical folder structure, i.e. any folder can have multiple subfolders.

Access rights:
Access rights shall be provided for user groups to all folders. Any user group that has access to a folder, shall always have also access to the folder's subfolders. However, any user group having access to a subfolder shall not have access to the folders above. (i.e. top guys see everything, lower level people only see there stuff)

Implementation via inheritance:
As far as I now understood, inheritance is a very good means to set up the proposed structure of folders and access rights. The step-wise approach would look the following way:
1. Create folders
2. Create user groups
3. Add user groups to folders (i.e. start at top, add user groups to top level, break inheritance to subfolders, add user groups to subfolders, break inheritance to next level ... and so on)

Issue:
If I would like to add one further user group at the top level of the folder structure, I would have to add it either to each folder individually (in our case we will have 100s of different folders with different access rights) or we would have to start step 3 from above all over again.

Both solutions seem very work intensive and I wonder, whether there is another solution?
I would expect some kind of function in sharepoint where I can inherit user rights from the top without deleting individual user rights in the subfolders (i.e. a function that checks whether there is any user group that has access to a folder, but not to its subfolders despite having inheritance; but at the same time not delete groups that shall only have access to the subfolders, but not to the folder above).

I would highly appreciate any advice on how to solve this issue without using the above mentioned work-intensive options.

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
Benjamin

We use a Web Part to show a list item in the boxed style. We have modified this Web Part with SharePoint Designer to remove the header columns. The result looks like this:

After installing the latest patch KB2844286 we’ve got the following error message:

Here are the SharePoint logs entries corresponding to the Correlation ID:

Line 2759: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.53 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	Logging Correlation Data      	xmnv	Medium  	Name=Request (GET:http://server01:80/sites/home/project/PJ-000092/SitePages/Home.aspx)	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2760: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.54 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	Logging Correlation Data      	xmnv	Medium  	Site=/sites/home	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2761: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.54 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	Monitoring                    	b4ly	High    	Leaving Monitored Scope (PostResolveRequestCacheHandler). Execution Time=13.5386987057768	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2762: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.56 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	Web Content Management        	Publishing                    	7fz3	Medium  	Setting [Display] as the FormContext.FormMode for the current page	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2763: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.63 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	Web Parts                     	89a1	High    	Error while executing web part: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.     at System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.Load(MethodInfo executeMethod, Byte[] queryData, Type[] earlyBoundTypes)     at Microsoft.Xslt.STransform.GetCompiledTransform()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.BaseXsltListWebPart.LoadXslCompiledTransform(WSSXmlUrlResolver someXmlResolver)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPart.GetXslCompiledTransform()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPart.PrepareAndPerformTransform(Boolean bDeferExecuteTransform)	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2764: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.68 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	General                       	b9y3	High    	Failed to open the file 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Resources\core.en-GB.resx'.	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2765: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.68 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	General                       	b9y4	High    	#20015: Cannot open "": no such file or folder.	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2766: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.68 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	General                       	b9y4	High    	(#2: Cannot open "": no such file or folder.)	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2767: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.68 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	General                       	b9y9	High    	Failed to read resource file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Resources\core.en-GB.resx" from feature id "(null)".	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2768: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.68 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	General                       	8e26	Medium  	Failed to open the language resource keyfile core.	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406
Line 2769: 07/11/2013 10:04:21.70 	w3wp.exe (0x1EA4)                       	0x03A4	SharePoint Foundation         	Monitoring                    	b4ly	Medium  	Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://server01:80/sites/home/project/PJ-000092/SitePages/Home.aspx)). Execution Time=169.668938358136	8356852e-0df2-4b5a-9473-b50153e73406

After deinstalling the patch the Web Part is displayed correctly again.

Our SharePoint Server has the Feb. 2013 CU installed.

This also happens to other Web Parts we manually updated via SharePoint Designer.

Any suggestion what’s going wrong?

Hello,

I am working on building a sharepoint 2010 architecture consisting of 4 servers (SQL, admin running central admin, WFE1, WFE2). All the servers are inside the network but WFE2 is the DMZ. I have successfully built SQL, Admin and joined WFE1 to the farm. But when I am trying to join WFE2 I am facing issues. I have copied couple of errors from the log generated after I ran configuration wizard.  

I have verified that all the features and service pack updates are same on WFE1 and WFE2

I would appreciate any suggestions

Thank you

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Trying to access the server farm connection

string
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF          Entering

function

TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion4ConnectionStringExi

sts
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF            Entering

function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF              The

RegistryHelper has the key name as Software

\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions

\14.0\Secure\ConfigDB and the registry hive as

LocalMachine
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF            Leaving

function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF           

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 registry

key Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server

Extensions\14.0\Secure\ConfigDB for the

connection string does not exist
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF            Unable

to get the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

connection string
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF          Leaving

function

TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion4ConnectionStringExi

sts
10/29/2014 15:45:57  1  INF          DID NOT

discover a v4 connection string and

SPFarm.Local indicates that this machine is not

joined.

=========================================================
    Trying to access the server farm connection

string
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF          Entering

function

TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion4ConnectionStringExi

sts
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF            Entering

function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF              The

RegistryHelper has the key name as Software

\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions

\14.0\Secure\ConfigDB and the registry hive as

LocalMachine
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF            Leaving

function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF           

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 registry

key Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server

Extensions\14.0\Secure\ConfigDB for the

connection string does not exist
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF            Unable

to get the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

connection string
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF          Leaving

function

TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion4ConnectionStringExi

sts
10/29/2014 15:45:59  1  INF          DID NOT

discover a v4 connection string and

SPFarm.Local indicates that this machine is not

joined.
========================================
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                      Trying to access the server farm connection string
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                      Entering function TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion4ConnectionStringExists
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                        Entering function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                          The RegistryHelper has the key name as Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\Secure\ConfigDB and the registry hive as LocalMachine
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                        Leaving function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                        Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 registry key Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\Secure\ConfigDB for the connection string does not exist
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                        Unable to get the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 connection string
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                      Leaving function TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion4ConnectionStringExists
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                      DID NOT discover a v4 connection string and SPFarm.Local indicates that this machine is not joined.
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                      Entering function Farm.Clear
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                        Entering function CentralAdminServiceInstance.Reset
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                        Leaving function CentralAdminServiceInstance.Reset
10/29/2014 15:48:30  1  INF                      Leaving function Farm.Clear

@R

I have found one more error when scrolled through the log file

 Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception
10/29/2014 15:50:43  11  ERR                                Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: The current server cannot be joined to this farm because the set of installed products does not match the products installed in the farm.

The license state for the current server doesn't match the farm's license state.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Join()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.CreateOrConnectConfigDb()

Hi all,

If I select All Domain Users - will it grant access to users from both domains? Or will I have to take additional steps for this?

Thank you.

This is the exact same issue as this 365 thread: http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/148/p/175906/528698.aspx?PageIndex=3 but when I asked for support to give me the resolution on their end they told me to open a ticket.

This user can visit other site collections without an issue but when they visit this one specific collection they are redirected to usersettingserror.aspx and they receive a message they says "Edit User Settings".  They can not view the pages in this site collection they only receive this error page.

This happens after the upgrade to 2013. In 2010 they are able to visit without issue. 2010 is non-claims and 2013 is claims.

Hi

We currently have a SharePoint 2010 SP1 setup in our environments and are having a problem in removing a couple of site columns that were added in by a third party product. Despite best efforts this has not been possible and we are hoping to get some advice around this.

Here's a brief overview of the issue:

1. We have two Site level columns that we are trying to delete, at the root site level. But when we try to delete them, we get the message (“Site columns which are included in content types cannot be deleted. Remove all references to this site column prior to deleting it”).
2. We have run powershell scripts to ensure that these columns are not part of any List, Web or Content Type in the entire site structure and have also cleaned out the recycle bin (site and admin bin) to try and remove any existing references. We have also ensured that these columns are not marked as hidden, read-only, or sealed.
3. We have also tried deleting this through SharePoint Manager but get the same result.
4. The only possible explanation seems to be that there must be orphaned references in the database. (we have seen references to similar cases elsewhere and indeed we are seeing some entries in the DB for these fields, that are not visible in the UI or when querying through PowerShell). However for obvious reasons, we do not want to modify the SP database !

Any advice on how to track such missing references, or what can be done to delete a column in such a case, would be much appreciated !

Do let me know if you need any further details.

Thanks
Rob

Hi all

I have a strange issue I can't find the answer to. When I access CA, I get the top menu but nothing else. It shows only 1 item in the vertical navigation bar on the left which is Central Administration and the right side shows Resources with a + sign to add new items. The rest of the screen, specially the middle, is empty. I migrated from 3.0 to 2010 SP2. Everything else seems to load ok, except for CA. I checked the authentication method and Windows Auth is enabled, the rest are disabled.

Any ideas?

PD