Fixing SharePoint

Recently i encountered that one of  SharePoint resource is in 2nd highest accessed item from one of my Site Collection. It was _layouts/clientbin/mediaplayer.xap file and it was very new to me that where MediaPlayer.xap file is actually being used. Never seen this before in any of my SharePoint farm. Thanks to Microsoft's Savoeurn Va for replying to a user here . Its actually get called for SilverLight calls. Some of your page in your farm might be using some SilverLight plugin and that's calling _layouts/clientbin/mediaplayer.xap file. For confirmation, go to that target page, disable SilverLight in your IE browser, refresh the page and test it. If it threw an error or warning then your page is using some sort of  SilverLight plugins. Note: In my case it was Content Query Webpart which was calling Silverlight. I found this very nice article below on how to disable this Silverlight call. http://toddbaginski.com/blog/controlling-the-silverlight-media-player-in-a-c...

Using below code, you can set "Request Access" Email ID in SharePoint. It worked for SharePoint 2010 (could be working for SharePoint 2013). $path = "C:\Logs.txt" $contentWebAppServices = (Get-SPFarm).services | ? {$_.typename -eq "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application"} # Get All Web Application foreach($webApp in $contentWebAppServices.WebApplications) { add-content -Path $path -Value $webApp.name -Force if($webApp.name -ne "") {     foreach ($SPsite in $webApp.Sites)     {     add-content -Path $path -Value $SPsite.URL -Force        # get the collection of webs        foreach($SPweb in $SPsite.AllWebs)         {     add-content -Path $path -Value    $SPweb.URL -Force               # if a site inherits permissions, then the Access request ma...

Hi There, Using below code, you can disable or hide or remove "Request Access" option from SharePoint. It worked for SharePoint 2010 (could be working for SharePoint 2013). $contentWebAppServices = (Get-SPFarm).services | ? {$_.typename -eq "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application"} # Get All Web Application foreach($webApp in $contentWebAppServices.WebApplications) { Write-Host $webApp.name      foreach ($SPsite in $webApp.Sites)     {        # get the collection of webs        foreach($SPweb in $SPsite.AllWebs)         {               # if a site inherits permissions, then the Access request mail setting also will be inherited              if (!$SPweb.HasUniquePerm)          ...

Recently i faced this issue that "Readers" (people with read permissions on site) were unable to see "Site Actions" button on site but it was working fine for Contributors and above levels. Readers were able to see the ribbon on other sites even any subsite in the problematic site. I checked for Master Pages, Page Layouts or any custom code like CSS or JS made by any champion in my team which can hide it from Readers but everything looked fine to me. So i decided to nail it. No "Site Action" Visible Following the basic rule "Divide a problem into sub-problems and then solve one by one" i started checking for permissions and finally found the issue. The reason was ,my business users (who were not SP professionals) played with site settings and permissions configurations that resulted in "Site Actions" visibility lost for readers. I followed the below steps and issue resolved for me. Click on "Site Actions -> Site...

Let's resolve these bulleted points. Open the Component Services snap-in. To open Component Services, click  Start . In the search box, type  dcomcnfg , and then press ENTER. Expand the console tree to locate the DTC (for example,  Local DTC ) for which you want to enable Network MS DTC Access. On the  Action  menu, click  Properties . Click the  Security  tab and make the following changes: In  Security Settings , select the  Network DTC Access  check box. In  Transaction Manager Communication , select the  Allow Inbound  and  Allow Outbound  check boxes. Click  OK . Ref: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753620(v=ws.10).aspx Click OK. It will ask you to confirm the restarting of a relevant service. Press Yes. Issue fixed.

I have noticed that servers in my SharePoint 2010 farm are showing statuses like "Installation Required" or "Upgrade Blocked". Copied image It happens when you install the SharePoint patches across the farm but somehow some of the servers are unbale to upgrade during patches installations. Installation Required :  The server still not yet installed with the same CU that already installed in other servers in the farm. Upgrade Blocked :  The server is blocked from upgrade as they are on latest CU than other servers in the Farm. Current Server is installed with latest CU and it will remained blocked until all the other SP servers in the farm are installed with the same version.

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