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On number of occasions we may need to Clear SharePoint Configuration Cache, also known as SharePoint Timer Cache.  Let us consider one scenario; we have a SharePoint Farm with high availability (Streamlined topology with 4 Front End Web Servers), we want to change or reset Farm Passphrase. I changed the Passphrase successfully and now want to rejoin another Front End Webserver to the Farm which was disconnected earlier before resetting the Farm Passphrase. Note : To know how to change the SharePoint Passphrase, please visit my article  here . I tried to run the Configuration Wizard on the Front End Webserver for rejoining it to the Farm and after entering the new Passphrase it stops with error "Could not connect to the Configuration Database, make sure the Passphrase it correct".  To resolve this issue we need to clear the Configuration / Timer Cache from all the Servers on the SharePoint Farm, because the Farm is still using the Configuration Cache and we...

If you forgot or missed or want to change your SharePoint Farm PassPhrase, here are the Powershell commands. $PassPhrase = ConvertTo-SecureString -String “yourNewFarmPassPhrase” -asPlainText -Force Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $PassPhrase -Confirm Note: Comfirm your new PassPhrase and you are Done. To make sure everything work perfectly after PassPhrase reset, you need to reset the Configuration / Timer Cache from all the Servers in the Farm. Please check my article for the same here .

There are many reasons for which you can have this error in your SharePoint server logs. One of the scenerio is explained below. Main Reason: One of the major reason for this error is; the SharePoint is not able to resolve the URL. There is something wrong with the alternate access mapping. Please make sure the alternate access mapping is configured properly. For more details on alternate access mapping in SharePoint, please visit: Alternate Access Mapping We had sharepoint 2016 and all website under that were https:// from the firewall. When we tried to load the web site, error occured with a Correlation Id. After checking the code I found the error message "Cannot find site lookup info for request Uri http://". I URL was able to authenticate the user but on page load the error occurs. My alternate access mapping was: https://mysite                                   ...

My recommended approach to manage SharePoint WSP solutions is; Powershell instead of GUI approach using SharePoint administration. Despite that, you can use the Central Administration to do that. Open SharePoint Powershell or windows Powershell using ‘Run as administrator’. If you open windows default Powershell , you need to load the SharePoint snap in explicitly, it auto loads in case of SharePoint Powershell . PS C:\Windows\system32> add-pssnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell We will see some important Powershell cmdlet which are useful for solution management. (This article will be mainly focused on main parameters available with cmdlets, for all parameter details, please refer to Ms technet https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/ee906565.aspx . Add-SPSolution Add-SpSolution -LiteralPath [path of the wsp file with name and extension] Add a SharePoint WSP solution to the Farm. Build your solution in visual studio, ->Publish to a fo...

SharePoint: PowerShell - BackUps and Restore Open Windows PowerShell using Run as admin PC> add-pssnapin Microsoft.sharepoint.powershell BackUp & Restore in SharePoint 2013 In SharePoint 2013, you can use Windows PowerShell functionality to perform a backup or restore process for the following items: Farm Site collection Configuration database Services List or document Farm BackUp Syntax: Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod -Directory [-AssignmentCollection ] [-BackupThreads ] [-ConfigurationOnly ] [-Confirm [ ]] [-Force ] [-Item ] [-Percentage ] [-WhatIf [ ]] Another Syntax(This doesn’t backups actually, it shows the items to be backed up in this command): Backup-SPFarm -ShowTree [-AssignmentCollection ] [-ConfigurationOnly ] [-Confirm [ ]] [-Item ] [-WhatIf [ ]] Example: PS C:\Windows\system32> backup-spfarm -directory \\KSSHRPT01\FarmBackUp -backupmethod full PS C:\Windows\system32> backup-spfarm -directory \\KSSHRPT01\FarmBa...