Ahmed Amin
Fix your SharePoint issues as I did!
SharePoint Performance Issue
Daily we are receiving dozens of cases about SharePoint performance being slow. Honestly, some of...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 11/17/2017
Requested Registry Access Is Not Allowed
Issue The problem was reported that no one is able to use InfoPath forms on the SharePoint sites;...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 10/15/2017
clientAppDisplayName needs permission to access resources in your organization that only an admin can grant. Please ask an admin to grant permission to this app before you can use it
Issue You created your own Single Page Applications (SPA) using ADAL.js to connect to SharePoint...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 10/08/2017
New-OfficeWebAppsFarm : The Office Online service failed to start. See the Windows Application Event Log for more details
Issue While building your Office Online Server farm by running the command "New-OfficeWebAppsFarm",...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 10/05/2017
SharePoint Workflow Auto Cleanup
I am not sure if this blog is really needed/helpful for someone or not, but we keep getting cases...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 10/01/2017
Change SharePoint Service Account
Normally, changing the SharePoint service accounts should not be a big deal. However, in our case we...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 10/01/2017
The permissions granted to user 'domain\user' are insufficient for performing this operation. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.AccessDeniedException: The permissions granted to user 'domain\user' are insufficient for performing this operation
While using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with SharePoint, there are plenty of steps to be...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 09/20/2017
SharePoint People Picker is Not Resolving Users in One-Way Trust
Scenario: You have your SharePoint farm in a domain, e.g. ahmedamin.local, and you have one-way...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 09/18/2017
Is my SharePoint version fully supported by Microsoft?
In Microsoft while getting a SharePoint support case, the first thing that we have to check is the...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 09/14/2017
SharePoint Service Application is Stuck on Starting
Honestly, I've never experienced this issue in any preceding SharePoint versions, but only on the...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 09/14/2017
Change SharePoint Servers Domain Name
One of the situations that you may end up at is changing your SharePoint servers domains. For...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 09/14/2017
High CPU Utilization by Security Token Service on SharePoint Server 2013
Issue You have a high CPU utilization, in my case it was almost 100% for several hours, and mostly...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 08/29/2017
The Topology Service Is Not Available in The Farm
While playing around with my SharePoint 2016 farm, I was creating the managed metadata service...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 08/13/2017
SharePoint Custom Claims Provider for People Picker Loads on All Web Applications
If you have decided to use the SAML token-based authentication (Trusted Identity Provider) for your...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 08/10/2017
Shrink SharePoint Database
Today I ran out of free space on my lab, and surprisingly my configuration database was consuming...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 08/10/2017
Bulk Delete SharePoint Items in a Large List Using PowerShell
While dealing with SharePoint lists/libraries which have huge number of items (more than 5,000...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 08/03/2017
Set SharePoint Log Category Level using PowerShell
Recently, when I was working with one of our customers, I wanted to ask him to enable Verbose...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 08/01/2017
Expanding a SharePoint term group is throwing the error 'There was an error processing the request'
One of our customers was experiencing a very complex issue; whereas, when they expand a managed...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 07/31/2017
How to Configure SharePoint On Premise to Be Accessed by Online Users?
Simply, follow this link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn635311.aspx
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 07/30/2017
Error while executing web part: System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Boolean Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ParsedCamlQuery.HasMultipleLookupIdInClauses()'
Yesterday we got a very strange behavior in one of our customers' SharePoint (SharePoint Server...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 07/20/2017
Lync/Skype presence status on SharePoint is not showing or not correct!
One of our customers was having a problem with his Skype/Lync presence status on SharePoint not...
Author: Ahmed.Amin Date: 07/17/2017