In search topology we are cross mark for content processing .

In ULS

Failed to connect to Host controller in Server : xxxxxxxx. Exception : System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: There was no endpoint listening

at net.tcp://xxxxxxx/ceres/hostcontroller/nettcp that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details. Server stack trace:

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionUpgradeHelper.DecodeFramingFault(ClientFramingDecoder decoder, IConnection connection, Uri via, String contentType, TimeoutHelper& timeoutHelper)

We were not able to start the Host Controller on Issue server from CA.

When we tried starting it from windows services it failed again.

In events we were getting

Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          2013-10-02 1:34:49 PM
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Description:
Application: hostcontrollerservice.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: Microsoft.Ceres.HostController.Controller.HostControllerException
Stack:
   at Microsoft.Ceres.HostController.WcfServer.WcfService.StartService()
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

This is what we found. 
  
We found that Node.ini file at path c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Server\15.0\Data\Office Server\Applications\Search\Nodes\[6digitSequence]\ContentProcessingComponent1\Configuration\Local on issue server is 0 KB
Node.ini from content processiong component 2 on server working server is  3 kb.

This is what I did to fix issue.

Copied node.ini file from working to non working server.
Then started start Host Controller on issue server via Central admin.
Every thing was back to normal.

Happy SharePointing

Solution :-

§ Setup new web application https://servername :port

§ Use OOB windows claims

§ Extend the application and configure of 3rd party provider

§ Create a new content source and crawl the default url

Reason :

SharePoint is currently configured to block intranet calls

Solution  :

$farm.Properties.DisableIntranetCalls = $false
$farm.Properties.DisableIntranetCallsFromApps = $false
$farm.update()

While upgrading UPA from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 we got error in PowerShell.

New-SPProfileServiceApplication : Action 15.0.95.0 of
Microsoft.Office.Server.Upgrade.ProfileDatabaseSequence failed.
At line:1 char:8
+ $upa = New-SPProfileServiceApplication -Name 'User Profile Service
Application'  ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Offic...viceApplication:
   SPCmdletNewProfileServiceApplication) [New-SPProfileServiceApplication], S
  PUpgradeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PowerShell.
   SPCmdletNewProfileServiceApplication

03/04/2013 12:29:28.71 PowerShell.exe (0x1248) 0x128C SharePoint Foundation Upgrade ajywk Unexpected 03/04/2013 12:29:28.71 powershell (0x1248) 0x128C SharePoint Foundation Upgrade ProfileDatabaseSequence ajywk ERROR Action 15.0.95.0 of Microsoft.Office.Server.Upgrade.ProfileDatabaseSequence failed. xxxxxx-87ee-4328-b0a3-01ee9d97a3b2 c6d11cc1-87ee-4328-b0a3-01ee9d97a3b2
03/04/2013 12:29:28.71 PowerShell.exe (0x1248) 0x128C SharePoint Foundation Upgrade ajywk Unexpected 03/04/2013 12:29:28.71 powershell (0x1248) 0x128C SharePoint Foundation Upgrade ProfileDatabaseSequence ajywk ERROR Exception: Incorrect syntax near 'xxxx_MThumb'.  The label 'http' has already been declared. Label names must be unique within a query batch or stored procedure.  The label 'http' has already been declared. Label names must be unique within a query batch or stored procedure.  The label 'http' has already been declared. Label names must be unique within a query batch or stored procedure.  Unclosed quotation mark after the character string ' AND RecordID=1361;  '. c6d11cc1-87ee-4328-b0a3-01ee9d97a3b2 c6d11cc1-87ee-4328-b0a3-01ee9d97a3b2
03/04/2013 12:29:28.71 PowerShell.exe (0x1248) 0x128C SharePoint Foundation Upgrade ajywk Unexpected 03/04/2013 12:29:28.71 powershell (0x1248) 0x128C SharePoint Foundation Upgrade ProfileDatabaseSequence ajywk ERROR    at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)     at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose)     at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady)     at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async, Int32 timeout)     at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(TaskCompletionSource`1 completion, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe, Int32 timeout, Boolean asyncWrite)     at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.SqlSession.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand command)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Upgrade.RemoveQueryStringFromPictureUrls.ExecuteUpgradeQuery(String upgradeQuery)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Upgrade.RemoveQueryStringFromPictureUrls.Upgrade()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.Upgrade() c6d11cc1-87ee-4328-b0a3-01ee9d97a3b2 c6d11cc1-87ee-4328-b0a3-01ee9d97a3b2

Solution:-

• Run full profile import and make sure it is finished.
• Then run “Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -CreateThumbnailsForImportedPhotos 1 -MySiteHostLocation https://mysite” in SharePoint PowerShell
• Then backup all three databases and restore with different name
• Now try again to upgrade on 2013 environment

When we try to access subsite "https://testesite/xxxx/xxxxx/xxxxxx/" we get unexpected error

When we try to Stsadm –o Deactivatefeature   -name  navigation [-url] <URL name> sites loads fine.

03/18/2013 15:47:12.28 w3wp.exe (0x15D0) 0x21E0 Web Content Management Publishing 8vzf High PortalSiteMapProvider was unable to fetch children for node at URL: /sites/########/######, message: Thread was being aborted., stack trace:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.MoveNavigationNode(String bstrUrl, Int32 lNodeId, DateTime dateParented, Int32 lParentId, Int32 lPreviousSiblingId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.MoveNavigationNode(String bstrUrl, Int32 lNodeId, DateTime dateParented, Int32 lParentId, Int32 lPreviousSiblingId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode.MoveInternal(SPNavigationNodeCollection collection, Int32 iPreviousNodeId)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.SPNavigationSiteMapNode.UpdateSPNavigationNode(SPNavigationNode node, SPNavigationNode previous, String name, String url, String description, String target, String audience, Boolean forceCreate)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.SPNavigationSiteMapNode.UpgradeDraftSPNavigationNode(SPNavigationNode draftNode, SPNavigationNode previous)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalWebSiteMapNode.<>c__DisplayClass3.<UpdateNavigationNodes>b__1()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.Security.SecurityUtilities.RunWithAllowUnsafeUpdates(SPWeb web, Action secureCode)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalWebSiteMapNode.PopulateNavigationChildrenInner(NodeTypes includedTypes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalWebSiteMapNode.PopulateNavigationChildren(NodeTypes includedTypes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapNode.GetNavigationChildren(NodeTypes includedTypes, NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes, Boolean trimmingEnabled, OrderingMethod ordering, AutomaticSortingMethod method, Boolean ascending, Int32 lcid)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapNode.GetNavigationChildren(NodeTypes includedTypes, NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes, OrderingMethod ordering, AutomaticSortingMethod method, Boolean ascending, Int32 lcid)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapNode.GetNavigationChildren(NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapProvider.GetChildNodes(PortalSiteMapNode node, NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes) 5a13099c-b15e-d07b-31a8-15db5146af27

03/18/2013 15:47:12.28 w3wp.exe (0x15D0) 0x21E0 SharePoint Foundation Stack Trace Collection 0000 Verbose Returning hr=0x8107140D: owssvr.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000000DA765) at 0x000007FEEB33A765 Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000000108B37) at 0x000007FEEC5D8B37 5a13099c-b15e-d07b-31a8-15db5146af27

03/18/2013 15:47:12.28 w3wp.exe (0x15D0) 0x21E0 SharePoint Foundation General 8kh7 High An unexpected error occurred while manipulating the navigational structure of this Web. 5a13099c-b15e-d07b-31a8-15db5146af27

Ran following PowerShell script.

param

(

   $url = $(Read-Host -Prompt "SiteCollection Url")

)

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$Logfile = "duplicates_log.txt"

Function LogWrite

{

  Param ([string]$logstring)

  Add-content $Logfile -value $logstring

}

function tryDeleteNode

{

   param

   (

       $node,$dictionary,$nodeCollection

   )

   $title = $node.Title

                   if(!$dictionary.ContainsKey($title))

                   {

                       $dictionary.Add($node.Title,$node.Url)

                   }

                   else

                   {

                       if($dictionary[$title] -eq $node.Url)

                       {

                           if($node.Children.Count -eq 0)

                           {

                               echo "       -> Deleting Duplicate Node: $title"

                               $nodeCollection.Delete($node)

                               $global:didDelete= $true

                                              $temp = (get-date).ToString() +";"+ ($site.Url) +";"+ ($title)

                                              echo "$temp"

                                              LogWrite $($temp)

                           }

                           else

                           {

                               echo "       -> Dupe Node $title has children, Skipping..."

                           }

                       }

               else

                       {

                   echo "       -> Duplicate title $title found, but mismatched link, Skipping..."

                       }

                   }

}

function deleteNodesRecurse

{

   $nodes = @{}

   foreach($node in $quickLaunch)

   {

       $childNodes = @{}

       foreach($child in $node.Children)

       {

           tryDeleteNode -node $child -dictionary $childNodes -nodeCollection $node.Children

       }

       tryDeleteNode -node $node -dictionary $nodes -nodeCollection $quickLaunch

   }

}

function deleteGlobalNodesRecurse

{

   $nodes = @{}

   foreach($node in $gnavNodes)

   {

       $childNodes = @{}

       foreach($child in $node.Children)

       {

           tryDeleteNode -node $child -dictionary $childNodes -nodeCollection $node.Children

       }

       tryDeleteNode -node $node -dictionary $nodes -nodeCollection $gnavNodes

   }

}

$sitecoll = Get-SPSite $url

write-host "SiteCollection: " $sitecoll.URL

foreach ($site in $sitecoll.AllWebs)

{

       write-host " -> Site: " $site.URL

               do

               {

                              $quickLaunch = $site.Navigation.QuickLaunch

                              $global:didDelete = $false

                              deleteNodesRecurse

                              $pub= [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($site)

                              $gnavNodes = $pub.Navigation.GlobalNavigationNodes;

                              deleteGlobalNodesRecurse

               }

               while($global:didDelete)

               $site.Dispose()

}

$sitecoll.Dispose()

We had issue with Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013

In ULS and event we were getting lots of errors related to Distributed cache.

Event ID:      6398
Task Category: Timer
Level:         Critical
Keywords:     
User:          xxxxxxxxxxx
Computer:      xxxxxxxxx
Description:
The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob (ID ba320718-0e80-4295-a3f8-a4badea59f0d) threw an exception. More information is included below.

Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded: Cache cluster is down, restart the cache cluster and Retry.

We ran following commands to fix the cache issue

Remove-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance

$SPFarm = Get-SPFarm
$cacheClusterName = "SPDistributedCacheCluster_" + $SPFarm.Id.ToString()
$cacheClusterManager = [Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities.SPDistributedCacheClusterInfoManager]::Local
$cacheClusterInfo = $cacheClusterManager.GetSPDistributedCacheClusterInfo($cacheClusterName);
$instanceName ="SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService"
$serviceInstance = Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {($_.Service.Tostring()) -eq $instanceName -and ($_.Server.Name) -eq $env:computername}
if([System.String]::IsNullOrEmpty($cacheClusterInfo.CacheHostsInfoCollection))
{
$serviceInstance.Delete()
}

After this we ran following command

$SPFarm = Get-SPFarm
$cacheClusterName = "SPDistributedCacheCluster_" + $SPFarm.Id.ToString()
$cacheClusterManager = [Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities.SPDistributedCacheClusterInfoManager]::Local
$cacheClusterInfo = $cacheClusterManager.GetSPDistributedCacheClusterInfo($cacheClusterName);
$instanceName ="SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService"
$serviceInstance = Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {($_.Service.Tostring()) -eq $instanceName -and ($_.Server.Name) -eq $env:computername}
if([System.String]::IsNullOrEmpty($cacheClusterInfo.CacheHostsInfoCollection))
{

Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance
$cacheClusterInfo.CacheHostsInfoCollection
}

We ran Get-CacheHost and it shows the service is up

Made sure service is showing as started on the server

While running aspnet_regiis –i we got error

We found  .Net 4.0 installed we removed .Net 4.0.

Uninstalled .Net 2.0 and reinstalled .Net 2.0

• Then on web we added iSAP  for v2 C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_filter.dll

While opening InfoPath form at https://mysite.com/xxxx/formstest name newfrom we getting error.
An error occurred while trying to conned to a Web service, An entry has been added to the Windows event log of the server. Log ID:5566 Correlation ID:ed55029c-xxxx-703b-xxxxx-5balBl xxxxxx

In ULs we can see

Solution for the issue is.

1) Install hotfix https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516485 on all WFEs. This is necessary so that the “userName()” function in InfoPath will return a result in domain\username format, instead of just username.

2) In SharePoint Central Administration, create a new “Group” Secure Store App, assign “All Authenticated Users” as the membership condition, and set the credentials to a user with permissions to access user information for all site users (i.e. a site admin).

3) In the UDCX file for the data connection calling the “GetUserProfileByName” web service method, add the Secure Store App information and reapprove:

<udc:Authentication>

<udc:SSO AppId="GetUserProfileByNameSSA" CredentialType="NTLM" />

</udc:Authentication>

4) In the form template, in design mode, modify the “GetUserProfileByName” data connection so it does not initialize on load.

5) In the “Form Load” rule, add actions to set the “AccountName” query field of the “GetUserProfileByName” data connection to the “userName()” function, and then query the data connection.

We were trying to install SharePoint 2013 (Foundation) on server 2012 and getting error during prerequisite installation.

We collection data from temp directory. In logs we can clearly see that it throws error while enabling ASP.NET v4.0.30319

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe" -i

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Install process returned (0)

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - [In HRESULT format] (0)

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - "C:\Windows\system32\cscript.exe" "C:\Windows\system32\iisext.vbs" /enext "ASP.NET v4.0.30319"

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Install process returned (1)

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - [In HRESULT format] (-2147024895)

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Error when enabling ASP.NET v4.0.30319

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Last return code (1)

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Reading the following DWORD value/name...

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Flags

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - from the following registry location...

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\UpdateExeVolatile

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Reading the following string value/name...

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - PendingFileRenameOperations

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - from the following registry location...

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Reading the following registry location...

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\RebootRequired

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Error: The tool was unable to install Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role.

2013-02-19 13:16:28 - Last return code (1)

We manually added support for ASP.NET 4.5 on IIS 8 for that we followed following article.

https://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/iis-80-using-aspnet-35-and-aspnet-45

During a ESP 5.3 multi node installation we were getting error.

The required C/C++ runtime libraries are not installed on host 'RSEARCH04.dev.nordstrom.com'. Please install the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package' (SP1 or newer) available from https://www.microsoft.com/downloads

When we checked machine we found that its already installed

On sever 2008 we had C++ 2008 (Version 9) was installed but our requirements states we need version 8 of the Visual C++ runtime libraries so we installed C++ 2005

After that installation went fine.