Yes, there will be a new major version of SharePoint

Published at September 27, 2016 ·  1 min read

Today at Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta there were some interesting announcements during Bill Baer’s and Troy Starr’s session: There will be a new major version of SharePoint on-premises, MS is already working on it No more Service Packs: Updates are only delivered through Public Updates (PU, formerly called Uber-Cumulative-Updates), there will be no Service Pack for SharePoint 2016 Feature Packs will bring new functionality, the first one is scheduled for November, the second one for Q2 2017....

PSConfig error: The upgraded database schema doesn't match the TargetSchema

Published at June 16, 2016 ·  1 min read

When applying a Cumulative Update to your SharePoint 2016 Farm, you might run into troubles when executing PSConfig/PSConfigUI after installing the Binaries. The error that is logged in the Windows Event Log looks as follows: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpgradeJobDefinition (ID ..) threw an exception. More information is included below. The upgraded database schema doesn’t match the TargetSchema. (Correlation=..) You can avoid this issue if you either dismount all the Content Databases before executing PSConfig/PSConfigUI (which is a good idea in larger environments anyway) and upgrade them later in a second step or upgrade all the Content Databases before executing PSConfig/PSConfigUI with something like Get-SPContentDatabase | Upgrade-SPContentDatabase....

SharePoint Saturday Stockholm - Slides

Published at May 22, 2016 ·  1 min read

After a great SharePoint Saturday in Stockholm, you can find the slides for my session “What’s new in SharePoint 2016” at docs.com: https://doc.co/EuAWoA Markus...

Speaking at European SharePoint Conference 2016 in Vienna

Published at April 21, 2016 ·  1 min read

​All kinds of cool SharePoint-contents, a lot of fellow MCM-colleagues - happy to be a speaker at the European SharePoint Conference 2016, taking place in Vienna from November 14-17. My Session will be about User Profile Synchronisation with SharePoint 2016 and Microsoft Identity Manager 2016. I hope to see many of you there.  Markus...

Speaking at Microsoft Techconference 2016 Austria

Published at January 11, 2016 ·  1 min read

I’m excited to talk at the largest Microsoft Technology Conference in Austria about “SharePoint 2016 Infrastructure/Upgrade” and “SharePoint 2016 Hybrid Solutions”. If you want to get inside knowledge about the latest Microsoft Technologies (Windows Server 2016, SQL 2016, Exchange 2016, SharePoint 2016, PowerBI, Office365 etc.), get your ticket at www.techconference.at and come to Vienna from 20.-21.1.2016. See you there. Markus...