SharePoint Real Time Errors and Solutions

Unable to access Site Collection in SharePoint 2010  Error Message:  Error 404 Page Not found • Check the site status in IIS to see if it is started • Try to browse the site from IIS. • Try restarting the site. • Checked the Logs and message says that the AppPool account is unable to connect to the database. • Checked the Content DB in CA and noticed that there are 2 content DBs • Given DB Owner permission on the content DB and retried, got a different error referring to some Microsoft URL. • Checked the Logs in event viewer and found an error :” There is a compatibility range mismatch between the Web server and database” • Checked the Upgrade &Migration from Central Admin CA --> Upgrade and Migration  Review Database Status  WSS_Content_Intranet1 and the status is: Database is too old and upgrade is required • Hence tried running the Test-SPContentDatabase with no go .It returns an error: “Invalid object name 'Webs' “. • Checked the database in...

Troubleshooting steps for Site Slowness issues in SharePoint Check if the issue is for single user or multiple users. Check CPU or memory usage on each server If the issue is for multiple users we need to check if the issue is occurring on any specific WFE. We can check that Site Collection Response is slow as the List View Threshold (LVT) has crossed 5000 items. I recently came across an issue where number of users have complained that the Site collection performance is not up to the expected speed. We checked that the Items in the list has already crossed 5000 items and as a work around we increased the limit from 5000 to 7000 items per list. To do this: • Central Administration -> Select the respective Web Application from Manage Web Applications Screen • In the Ribbon select General SettingsResource Throttling • Scroll Down to “List View Threshold limit” and edit the default value. • As mentioned above this was just a work around and after few days, the issue ha...

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