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Application Server Administration job failed

Problem CPU 99%. User Profile Synchronization is stuck on Running. SharePoint Timer Service is eating up the whole CPU and the event viewer says: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance Reason: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by xxxxxxxx, in the OWSTIMER process, on machine xxxxxxx.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict. Technical Support Details: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by xxxxxxxx, in the OWSTIMER process, on machine xxxxxxx. View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()    at Micro...

Assign a task action in SharePoint 2013 Workflow generates a KeyNotFoundException

Problem You have added an "assigned a task" action to your SharePoint 2013 Workflow. The associated workflow task list has broken inheritance with custom permissions. When you start your workflow and the task is assigned and you get a  KeyNotFoundException. Fix the problem Don't break the inherit of permission on the associated workflow task list.

No effect when adding a domain name to an existing SAN certificate

You have an existing SAN certificat installed in yor IIS and you want to add a domain name to the certificate. Problem When you install the updated certificate in the IIS the new domain name doesn't appear in the certificate when you are viewing the certificate from the Security report (the lock) next to the address bar in the browser. Fix the problem Check if the "Print Spooler" and "Windows Remote Management" Services are started or not. Delete the old certificate from the IIS Import the new certificate to the IIS Run IISRESET /stop Run net stop http Run net start http Run IISRESET /start Verify that the "Print Spooler" and "Windows Remote Management" Services are started or stoped depending on the result in step 1.

Error when running Register-SPAppPrincipal

Problem You get the error, "Cannot find an SPWeb object with Id or Url" , when trying to get the RootWeb of the SPSite object when you register a new app with the Register-SPAppPrincipal PowerShell cmdl. Register-SPAppPrincipal -NameIdentifier $appPrincipalIdentifier -Site $site.RootWeb -DisplayName 'ProviderHostedApp' The cause could be The user who is running the script is NOT a farm administrator. Fix the problem Add the user to the farm administrator group

Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site

In order to publish a SharePoint App (Provider Hosted in my case) to a sitecollection it must be based on a developer site template or an App Catalog site template. If you run into "Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site" error when trying to publish the app the Developer feature is most likely not activated. The Developer feature is hidden so you have to activate it throug PowerShell. Run the following script to activate the feature. Enable-SPFeature e374875e-06b6-11e0-b0fa-57f5dfd72085 –url http://sharepoint.contoso.com