People Search not working

Problem: Created Search service application and configured Content Sources for crawl. Started the Full crawl and it was completed. Created Enterprise search site and able to see the search results, but when I searched for People search they were no results

Resolution:

Here are some of the steps to verify,

Check if User profile Service and User Profile Synchronization Service  is up and running (Navigate to Central Administration, go to System Settings > Manage Services on Server)

Does the default content access account has read permissions to the web application (Navigate to Central Administration, go to Application Management > Manage Web Application and click on your web application to select it. In the Ribbon, click on User Policy)

Check if you have “SPS3://” protocol is in the Content Sources URL list (Navigate to Central Administration, go to Application Management > Manage Service Application and click on Search Service Application. Go to Crawling > Content Sources and click on Content Sources)

Verify if the default Content Source account has “Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers” . (Navigate to Central Administration, go to Application Management > Manage Service Application and click on User profile Service. In the Ribbon, click on Administrators)

If you need to make changes to any of the above, please run a Full crawl

People Search is working now.

List View Threshold Error

Problem: We have couple of document folders in SharePoint 2007 environment  with couple of Views. We migrated to SharePoint 2010 and when Users try to click the views pertaining to them they were getting “An error has occurred.  The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator”

Resolution:

1. Navigate to Central Administration.

2. Go to Application Management > Manage Web Application and click on your web application to select it.

3. In the Ribbon, click on General Settings drop-down and choose “Resource Throttling”.

4. In the “List View Threshold”, increase the value (by a factor of 2)) and click OK.

5. If the error persists, increase the value again until the error goes away.

Like to share the resolution so it might be useful for someone.

Cannot publish pages in SharePoint 2010

If you have created your SharePoint 2010 farm manually without running the farm Configuration Wizard, you might encounter this error when you try to publish a page

“The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator.”

The problem is stat the State service is not configured since the Farm Configuration Wizard has not been run.

1.Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows PowerShell Modules.

2. Create a service application by typing $serviceApp = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name “My State Service”
3. Create a State Service database and associate it with a service application, by typing New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name ”MyStateServiceDatabase” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp.
4.Create a State Service Application Proxy and associate it with the service application by typing New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name ”My State Service” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp -DefaultProxyGroup.

In the Manage Service Application, verify if you are seeing new State Service application.  Remember to verify that your web Application is associated with the State Service Application.

Once these instructions are completed, you should be able to publish pages