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“Some or all identity references could not be translated” error when creating SharePoint 2010 web application.

Posted by lukecostin on April 26, 2012

I ran into a small but annoying issue yesterday while setting up a web application for one of our SharePoint 2010 environments.
The issue in question stated “Some or all identity references could not be translated” when it attempted to set up a web application using the AutoSPinstaller scripts as shown below.

Identity error

The issue can also occur when you attempt to register an account in the “Managed Account” Central Administration page.
After some investigation, I found that the reason for the issue was that the account name (along with it domain prefix) was exceeding 20 characters, which is the limit for all managed accounts.

If you change the managed account you are using to one below 20 characters (For example, changing the managed account from Domain\ServiceAccount15 to Domain\Servacct15) you should not experience this issue anymore.

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Enrolment for Education Solutions (EES) Licensing

Posted by tomshaw94 on December 16, 2011

The Enrolment for Education Solutions License, or EES, became available to schools within the UK from the 1st of March 2011. This agreement can license a single school, a number of schools or an entire local education authority. The agreement is a contract type enrolment via an open value subscription. The subscription is a flexible volume licensing offer lasting for 3 years. After the 3 years there are a number of options to consider. Your first option is to extend your subscription under a one year licensing period. A second option to consider is submitting a new subscription enrolment under the three-year licensed period. A further option is that you allow the subscription to run out and then stop using the software. If you wish to buy your software you can convert to a perpetual license which is done through buy-out licenses. It should be noted that the costs of this can be significant and should be considered as part of the decision to choose this type of licensing.

To qualify for this license you must have a minimum of 5 FTE’s or more. FTE’s are staff that work more than 200 hours per year in school. The FTE’s get counted once every year which means that you don’t have to track every computer in the organisation.

Key Benefits:

  • Counting FTE staff once a year covers all staff and shared PCs
  • One annual payment at academic prices.
  • Access to the most up to date version of the licensed software
  • Access to software assurance benefits.
  • Working at home for staff users counted within the FTE count.
  • Licensed to run any version of the product includes product upgrades during the designated agreement.
  • Broad product selection available

There is a wide selection of Microsoft products available through the EES type of License.

The Education Desktop Platform package includes:

  • Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade.
  • Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010
  • Microsoft Core CAL Suite

The Enterprise Desktop Platform package includes all of the above plus an Enterprise CAL Suite.

There are also a number of additional products and services available through your EES License.  These additional products and services can be licensed in any quantity, ranging from a single license to organisation wide.  Examples of Additional products available include Windows Server, Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Project and additional CALs or Microsoft Online Services.

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SharePoint Error after moving databases

Posted by Gary Powell-Jones on September 12, 2011

A lot of people have experienced issues after moving databases (especially the configuration database)

The typical message when trying to run an stsadm command, or some Central Administration pages is…

“System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.Parameter name: str at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.HasIllegalCharacters(String[] str)”

 

One cause for this could be that the timer service has not reconnected to the Configuration Database.

The timer service has a local cache of all jobs stored in %systemdrive%\documents and settings\all users\application data\microsoft\sharepoint\config, in a folder with a GUID name. (on SharePoint 2010 it is $systemdrive%\users\all users\application data\microsoft\sharepoint\config. Note that this is a hidden folder

This folder will contain a file called cache.ini and many XML files.

First possible issue..

As noted in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc561004(office.12).aspx the SharePoint application groups may have ‘lost’ permissions (although the article has the wrong path). TheWSS_ADMIN_WPG and WSS_RESTRICTED_WPG require write permissions to this folder. Stop the SharePoint Timer service and Administration service, grant the permissions and re-start the services.

Second possible issue..

We have seen this once. The server registry lost the record of the configuration database ID. This is stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Service Extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDB (or 14.0 for 2010). There should be a REG_SZ key called Id. The value of this key should match the name of the folder in the %systemdrive%\documents and settings\all users\application data\microsoft\sharepoint\config folder.

In the case we saw, the value of this key was 00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000000

As above, we changed stopped the services, changed the key, and restarted the services.

Important note – Editing the registry can be a dangerous task & is done at your own risk

 

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Automating the installation of SharePoint

Posted by Gary Powell-Jones on April 8, 2011

We strongly subscribe to the principal of automating the installation of SharePoint within any environment. We quite often get asked as to why this is so important to us, so this article aims to give some reasons behind this.
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Using [Today] or [Me] in SharePoint calculated columns

Posted by Gary Powell-Jones on March 4, 2011

(Reposted from orginal blog)
If you try this in the browser you will get a message along the line of Calculated columns cannot contain volatile functions like “Today” and “Me”. At this point you go D’Oh!

But…. you can !!!

Before creating your calculated column you will need to create a column called Today or Me (depending on the calculation you want to create). Once this has been created, SharePoint lets you use the [Today] or [Me] functions in the calculation.

This example shows how to create an age calculated column.

1. In your SharePoint list, create a column, title = DOB, type = Date, format = date only.

2. Create a column, title = Today, type = text.

3. Create a column, title = Age, type = calculated, calculation = DATEDIF([DOB],[Today],"Y")

4. Delete the column titled “Today”

Now add a new item to the list. Set the DOB date (to somewhere in the past!) and save. The Age should have now been correctly calculated in Years.

Note that once you have deleted the Today or Me column, if you try to edit the calculation in the future, SharePoint will complain again. However, you can simply create another column (Today or Me), edit your calculation, then Delete the Today / Me column again.

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