SharePoint Real Time Errors and Solutions

Issue : Search in SharePoint2013 is not working for users but is working for administrators. After Search is configured , I started a full Crawl. After the crawl when I search for documents or anything in search it gives me search results. However,when I login with a user account having contribute permissions on the site Search does not show any results. Fix : I have added the user to "Windows Authorization  user group" in Active Directory. Reset IIS from command prompt using the command "IISRESET" as administrator. Start a full crawl. Now I am able search normally unless specific permissions have been set to any documents.

Unable to start Secure Store Service : Error : Creation of Secure Store Service Application failed because of the following errors: The Timer Job Completed but failed on one or more machines in the farm. Solution : Delete the Secure Store Service Application. Close all the browsers and runt the sharePoint Configuration wizard and retry to configure the secure store service and the issue should be fixed. If the issue still persists , start the Secure Store Service Application using the following commands. $proxy = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | where {$_.TypeName -eq "Secure Store Service Application Proxy"} $proxy.Status = "Online" $proxy.Update() In few cases it may happen that the Proxy service may start and the secure store service still has an error.In this case please delete the Secure Store service  and recreate using PowerShell as below : $sa = New-SPSecureStoreServiceApplication -Name "Secure Store Service Applicatio