December 9, 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server
2013 package
Description of the Office updates: December 9, 2014
Office 2013 cumulative update for December 2014
Applies
to:
SharePoint server 2013.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Outlook continuously prompting for password while connecting to Office 365? Solution is here.
Issue: Outlook continuously
prompting for password while connecting to Office 365 Find out the solution.
Background:
When attempting to
create an Outlook profile or connecting to an Office 365 mailbox, you are
sometimes continuously prompted for credentials. The client displays the message
"trying to connect...”." If you cancel the credentials prompt, you
receive the following error:
Error: The connection to Microsoft
Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this
action.
Resolution:
Change the Logon network security
setting to Anonymous Authentication.
Mandatory Checks:
If you can’t find “Anonymous Authentication” under Logon network
security drop down, you will have to download Service Pack 2 , which is
mandatory for Outlook 2010. Open attached PDF to download the Service Pack 2.
Launch Control Panel.
In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Swipe in from the right to open the charms, tap or click Search , and then type control panel in the search box. Or, type control panel at the Start screen.
In Windows 7
Click
Start, type Control Panel in the Start Search box, and
then press Enter.
3.
In Control Panel, locate and double-click Mail.
4.
Click Show Profiles, select your Outlook profile, and click Properties.
5.
Click E-mail Accounts, select Account Settings and on the
E-mail tab, click Change.
6.
In the Change Account dialog, click More Settings.
7.
In the Microsoft Exchange dialog, select the Security tab.
8.
From the Login network security dropdown, select Anonymous
Authentication and click OK.
9.
Click Next and click Finish, and then click Close on the
Account Settings dialog.
10.
Click Close on the Mail Setup dialog, and click OK to
close the Mail control panel.
Why does it happen?
This issue can occur if Logon
network security under More Settings on the Microsoft Exchange Security
tab is set to a value other than Anonymous Authentication.
Applies to: Outlook 2013, Office 365.
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Friday, January 9, 2015
NoILMUsed UserProfileApplication class property should not use: SharePoint 2013
While reading some
articles on internet, I bumped in very interesting article shared by MS back in
2013.
A property name NoIMLUsed
was elaborated an MS suggest this property should not be altered else can
damage you are working User Profile service.
They have given a PowerShell
Snippet below to be used to correct this.
$upa =
Get-SPServiceApplication | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile *'}
if ($upa -eq $null)
{
Write-Host "No User Profile service application is found."
Return
}
if ($upa.noILMUsed -eq $true)
{
Write-Host "Reverting back the NoILMUsed flag to false..."
$upa.noILMUsed = $false
try
{
$upa.Update()
}
catch
{
Write-Host "Failed updating UPA once. Try it again..."
$upa = Get-SPServiceApplication | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile *'}
$upa.noILMUsed = $false
$upa.Update()
}
# check the flag after update
$upa = Get-SPServiceApplication | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile *'}
if ($upa.noILMUsed -eq $false)
{
Write-Host "Successfully reverted back the NoILMUsed flag to false."
}
else
{
Write-Host "Failed to revert back the flag. Please try running the script again."
Return;
}
}
else
{
Write-Host "The NOILMUsed flag is already set to false. "
}
# check sync service status
$syncServices = @(Get-SPServiceinstance | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile Synchronization *'})
$flag = $false
foreach ($service in $syncServices)
{
if ($service.status -eq 'Online')
{
$flag = $true
break
}
}
if ($flag -eq $false)
{
Write-Host "The User Profile Synchronization service is not started in this farm. Please proceed with restarting the profile sync service when in need."
}
else
{
Write-Host "All appears to be good."
}
if ($upa -eq $null)
{
Write-Host "No User Profile service application is found."
Return
}
if ($upa.noILMUsed -eq $true)
{
Write-Host "Reverting back the NoILMUsed flag to false..."
$upa.noILMUsed = $false
try
{
$upa.Update()
}
catch
{
Write-Host "Failed updating UPA once. Try it again..."
$upa = Get-SPServiceApplication | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile *'}
$upa.noILMUsed = $false
$upa.Update()
}
# check the flag after update
$upa = Get-SPServiceApplication | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile *'}
if ($upa.noILMUsed -eq $false)
{
Write-Host "Successfully reverted back the NoILMUsed flag to false."
}
else
{
Write-Host "Failed to revert back the flag. Please try running the script again."
Return;
}
}
else
{
Write-Host "The NOILMUsed flag is already set to false. "
}
# check sync service status
$syncServices = @(Get-SPServiceinstance | ? {$_.typename -like 'User Profile Synchronization *'})
$flag = $false
foreach ($service in $syncServices)
{
if ($service.status -eq 'Online')
{
$flag = $true
break
}
}
if ($flag -eq $false)
{
Write-Host "The User Profile Synchronization service is not started in this farm. Please proceed with restarting the profile sync service when in need."
}
else
{
Write-Host "All appears to be good."
}
Reference KB can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2624198
I hope this information
is useful for you.
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Version comment is blank in a document library: SharePoint 2013.
Issue: When
you check-in back a document and enter comment in the version history you see
you comments are not saved.
Error: There is no error message,
it’s just version comments are missing.
Background: on
some of the site when version is enabled and require check-out before you edit
a document is enabled you see that when you write comments in version and
reading versions history versions are there but their associated comments are
not there.
Troubleshooting:
We check-out on other document libraries and this problem
was across.
We disabled version on a particular library and saw not
difference.
We disabled require document to be checkout and saw no
difference.
Set-up another document library with same features enabled
and problem was there.
I noticed this is wider problem them expected.
Resolutions:
Found a hotfix published by MS on October,
2013 has listed about the issue.
This hotfix also does talks about many other related issue.
Alternatively installing cumulative update this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2825647
could also resolve the problem.
Prerequisites for the above KB is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2767999
Applies
to:
SharePoint Server 2013.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Installing IIS 8 on Windows 8.1
I have seen many developers who don’t have access to
Servers and wanted to explore features of a tools and test some functionality,
they often has the alternative to install the Software’s on their
machines.
One such component is IIS 8 on a machine which runs
Windows 8.1. Let’s have a look at the options how do we install IIS 8 on a
client machine such as windows 8.1.
To learn how to enable IIS and the required
IIS components on Windows 8/8.1, see the instructions below.
1.
Open Control Panel and click Programs and Features > Turn Windows
features on or off.
Note: you can also open Control Panel by
pressing windows + run and type appwiz.cpl to access control panel.
2.
Enable Internet Information Services.
3.
Expand the Internet Information Services feature and verify
that the web server components listed below are enabled.
If you wanted to host
FTP service on your machine to have it accessed as FTP Server by mapping to an
external IP, you can install FTP option from here as well.
4.
Click OK.
5.
Windows will apply
changes and will install all necessary configuration files and will ask for the
reboot.
If you visit Control
Panel, Administration tools is not yet available unless you will restart your
PC.
6. Click Restart Now, now if
you visit the visit Control Panel, Administration tools and Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager then you can open IIS 8.
7. Accessing your default site will look like
below.
If you have any issues following the above steps please drop comments
in the comment section I will try to help with every possible way.
Applies to: Windows 8.1, IIS 8.
Monday, January 5, 2015
We can't sync this section because you don't have write permissions: OneNote.
Issue:
While upgrading from our trail version of SharePoint 2013 POC to a usable
set-up SharePoint 2013. We have seen an issue reported where syncing your OneNote
with SharePoint resulted in an issue and get the following error.
Error: We're sorry. We
can't sync this section because you don't have write permissions. Talk to your
administrator to resolve the issue. (Error code: 0xE4010071)"
Troubleshooting:
We tried to download the OneNote from the
site and opened it, it worked fine.
Locally there was no issue, all the updated changes
were saved.
Saving or synchronizing them with SharePoint
was having issue.
Opening one note book
from SharePoint site was opening as read-only, despite of user having
permissions.
As a part of SharePoint
2010 upgrade while working with previous clients I remember that when a site
being upgraded it temporary locks for editions.
Resolution:
Thinking of the same
ground, I found the MS evidence http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2777002,
which talks about the same behavior.
There is workaround to
this issue:
1.
Open the SharePoint
site, and then open the library that contains the notebook.
2.
In the Connect
& Export area on the LIBRARY tab, click Open
with Explorer.
Expand this image
3.
Copy the notebook
folder that contains the section files to the local computer, and then open the
section files by using OneNote.
4.
And then update your
information.
Once SharePoint is online
you can again synchronize your updates.
If you have any
issues, do let me know. I would be happier to answer those.
Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_rasmussen/archive/2007/12/10/onenote-shared-notebooks-options-and-troubleshooting-part-1-windows-file-shares.aspx
Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_rasmussen/archive/2007/12/10/onenote-shared-notebooks-options-and-troubleshooting-part-1-windows-file-shares.aspx
Product Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013, One Note 2013.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Decrypt your files damaged by CTB Locker Virus.
Issue:
Decrypt your files damaged by CTB Locker Virus.
Background:
As discussed in the last post of SharePoint
Server 2013 client machine is infected with CTB locker virus, today I did
more research on the finding a way to recover your file which were decrypted by
CTB locker Virus.
Analysis by Symantec Connect- Security:
Decryption without the key
from your attackers is not feasible, but that does not mean
that a Trojan.CryptoLocker threat must seriously disrupt your
business. A scan with new AntiVirus definitions will be able to detect and remove
the executable file and prevent any further damage, then
simply delete all the encrypted files and
restore them from their last known-good backup.
With some variants of
Trojan.Cryptolocker, it is possible to use Windows Powershell to generate a
list of files that have been encrypted by ransomlock. You can dump the
list of files in the CryptoLocker registry key using the following command:
(Get-Item
HKCU:\Software\CryptoLocker\Files).GetValueNames().Replace("?","\")
| Out-File CryptoLockerFiles.txt -Encoding Unicode
Note that more recent
variants seem to have changed their code to prevent the generation of such
a list. It will be necessary to identify the corrupted files
manually.
Microsoft Built-In Tools:
Windows Backup
Windows comes with a
built-in backup and restore utility. Windows Backup is a freebie that
can restore encrypted files (or
files otherwise damaged by any threat), providing that you have made a backup
of them prior to the damage. Microsoft have released a video on how to
use the built-in backup and restore tool to back up your important files.
Watching this simple how-to will enable you to schedule a known-good backup of
your selected data, and will only cost a minute of your life. Definitely
recommended!
Back up your files
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows7/back-up-your-files
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows7/back-up-your-files
This Windows Backup tool
also has the ability to create a system image- this is an exact image
of the entire drive: system settings, programs, files,
everything. If this system image is restored, it will not only replace
all the corrupted files that Trojan.CryptoLocker has damaged- it will overwrite
everything! Use system
image restoration with caution.
Use a Previous Version
An alternative, if it is
a technology in use in your organization, is to restore
from a Previous Version. Previous versions are copies of
files and folders that Windows automatically saved as part of system
protection. This feature is fantastic at rescuing files that were
damaged by malware. Here's another Microsoft article with all the details:
Previous versions of files: frequently asked
questions
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows7/previous-versions-of-files-frequently-asked-questions
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows7/previous-versions-of-files-frequently-asked-questions
If system protection is
enabled, Windows automatically creates previous versions of files and folders
that have been modified since the last restore point was made.
As an example: let's say
that Trojan.CryptoLocker has turned the important MS Word document
"Network and Telco.doc" into gibberish. From
Windows Explorer, just right-click it, "Restore previous versions" highlight the version from last week
(before the damage was done) and click Restore.
One the File Server:
Volume Shadow Copies
If Trojan.CryptoLocker
has damaged files that reside in a mapped directory on a corporate file server,
there's a slightly different method for restoring them. If Volume
Shadow Copies are
enabled on the server, recovery should be easy. More details and a
mention of gourmet snacks can be found in this Technet article:
Rapid Recovery
with the Volume Shadow Copy Service
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/magazine/2006.01.rapidrecovery(en-us).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/magazine/2006.01.rapidrecovery(en-us).aspx
My resolution:
Please try with this site to decrypt your files that has been
encryped by ransomware http://ecryptcryptolocker.com
This are the top
ransomewares that has been reported.any one of this may be infected your system
- Ransom:JS/Krypterade.A
- Ransom:Win32/Nymaim.F
- Ransom:Win32/Reveton!lnk
- Ransom:Win32/Crowti
- Ransom:Win32/Critroni
- Ransom:Win32/Reveton
- Ransom:Win32/Reveton.V
- Ransom:Win32/Urausy.E
- Ransom:Win32/Critroni.A
- Ransom:Win32/Crowti.A
How to remove the ransomware depends on what type it is.
If your web
browser is locked
You can try to unlock your browser by using Task Manager to stop
the web browser's process:
1. Open Task Manager. There
are a number of ways you can do this:
o
Right-click on an empty space on the
taskbar and click Task Manager orStart Task Manager.
o
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
o
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
2. In the list of Applications or Processes, click on
the name of your web browser.
3. Click End
task. If you are asked if you want to wait for the program to
respond, click Close the program.
4. In some workplaces,
access to Task Manager may be restricted by your network administrator. Contact
your IT department for help.
When you open your web browser again, you may be asked to restore
your session. Do not restore your session or you may end up loading the
ransomware again.
How to remove rasnomewar :
Mcafee provides a tool called stinger to
remove ransomewares,malwares,trojans,etc
Run this tool it will remove the
ransomewares.
Only few tools can remove ransomewares fully
some of them i have mentioned
Microsoftsecurity essentials
Windows defender
Malwarebytes
McafeeStinger
The first Three are Microsoft products and can
completely remove. Windows defender will be present in all Microsoft operating
system by default .it will be turned off.
Please share your experience
in the comments below.
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013 and Windows 8.1.
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