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...

Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Munich

Published at August 18, 2015 ·  1 min read

I’m proud to be a part of the first SharePoint Saturday in Munich on October 10th, 2015. Come and join an awesome lineup of speakers (and me) for a lot of in depth Information on SharePoint 2013 and 2016. My Session will be about the changes in the User Profile Sync Service in SP 2016. http://www.spsevents.org/city/Munich/Munich2015/_layouts/15/SPSEvents/Speakers/Session.aspx?SpeakerId=1168&ID=109 Session details will be revealed soon… Don’t miss this free, all English event, registration starts on September 1st....

What’s new in SharePoint 2016

Published at May 7, 2015 ·  1 min read

Today, at Ignite Conference in Chicago, Microsoft released some interesting facts about the new Version of SharePoint called “SharePoint 2016”. Hardware requirements stay the same as for SP 2013 Software requirements change quite a bit (Windows Server 2012 R2 or higher, SQL 2012 or higher) Standalone Setup (with SQL Express included) is no longer an option You need to use the “Single Server” option and can install SQL Server on the local machine....

How to use the Script Editor WebPart on a SharePoint 2013 MySite (which is missing on MySites by default)

Published at May 8, 2014 ·  1 min read

SharePoint 2013 comes with the new Script Editor WebPart which can be used on Wiki/WebPart/Publishing Pages to add Script Code to the page. Using it is fairly simple: add it to the page from the WebPart Catalog. BUT MySites for example don’t contain the Script Editor WebPart in the catalog: To bring the Script Editor WebPart to the MySite WebPart Catalog (and therefore to all of the subsites like Blog etc....

InfoPath - RIP

Published at February 3, 2014 ·  1 min read

It was somehow clear that InfoPath doesn’t have the brightest future after being the only part of Office 2013 that was not revised. Now it’s official – InfoPath will be retired and there will be no future version: http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/ I’m quite curious about what the new roadmap will be – SPC2014 will tell us… Markus...

Community Site Template not available when creating a subsite

Published at October 22, 2013 ·  1 min read

The Community Site is a new template in SharePoint 2013 that allows us manage discussions and Q&A contents in a comfortable way. Unfortunately this template is not available for creation as a subsite (in the browser) of a Publishing Site – even if you add it to “Page Layouts and site templates”: Add subsite shows the following (I added “Team Site” just to make sure that the “Collaboration” tab is showing up):...

“Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site” when deploying an app from Visual Studio 2012 to a host-named site collection in SharePoint 2013

Published at March 31, 2013 ·  1 min read

This error message occurs when you are using Visual Studio 2012 to deploy an app to a SharePoint 2013 under the following circumstances The site you are using is a host-named site collection that is not the root site collection for the web application AND the site is not a developer site To avoid this error message, you can either deploy to the root site collection of the web application (and not the host-named site collection) – which is not a valid choice sometimes...