Getting accessdenied.aspx for all users can be very frustrating. Usually it’s an issue with the Super User/Super Reader configuration issue (see https://joshroark.com/sharepoint-the-complete-guide-to-portalsuperuseraccount-and-portalsuperreaderaccount/). To the Logs The ULS logs are the key to finding out why we’re getting redirected. We want to get the Correlation ID of the page that is going to be redirecting the […]
Author: Adam.Sorenson
SharePoint Support Escalation Engineer
Over 10 years supporting SharePoint OnPrem
SharePoint 2010/2013 Unable to load Synchronization Connections
User Profile Synchronization connection page(http://centraladmin:1234/_layouts/15/mgrdsserver.aspx) can have trouble loading the connections. This can toss the generic error “An error has occurred while accessing the SQL Server database or the SharePoint Server Search service. If this is the first time you have seen this message, try again later. If this problem persists, contact your administrator.” […]
EncodedServerID in Correlation ID
Correlation IDs can be captured in Fiddlers, Browser Dev tools(F12), or an error page. The problem comes when we want to get the ULS logs. We can run a Merge-SPLogFile but I’d rather not wait and just get the ULS log file from the server. The EncodedServerID is in the correlation ID when we […]
SharePoint Profile Picture Import 1.3
Link to original post: https://adamsorenson.com/user-profile-picture-import-with-active-directory-import/ A new year, blog home, & version of the picture importer I have just completed a migration to my new blog home here. This platform will give us a bit more flexibility with design and such. I have been working a many bugs that have been plaguing the profile picture […]
SharePoint – PowerShell Script to Remove Users from Site Collection
Site collections still have users that are either disabled or deleted from Active Directory. SharePoint does not have anything out of the box that will clean up these. The reasons to clean these users up is to avoid getting them as a result in the people picker when they should not be showing up.
I do have two scripts that will clean these users up. This will be something you want to test out since this is a delete function (leave $RemoveUsers = $false).