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Recently I received a question about a failing Variations Create Hierarchies Job. No matter how often the Job was started, the variation hierarchy never got created. Looking at the ULS log we noticed the following error: VariationCreateHierarchies – Failed to process a work item. This work item will not be retried. Error: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is […]

My colleague Cedric Naudy recently analyzed an interesting problem: Hierarchy creation for all site collections in a specific content database failed to create the hierarchy while hierarchy creation in other web applications worked fine. The Hierarchy creation jobs were marked as succeeded and but no new hierarchies were created. While analyzing the issue Cedric noticed, […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]

Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – User InterfacePart 3 – TriggersPart 4 – Timer JobsPart 5 – Configuration OverviewPart 6 – Configuration InternalsPart 7 – Variation Hierarchy CreationPart 8 – Creating Page VariantsPart 9 – Creating Site VariantsPart 10 – Restructuring the HierarchyPart 11 – Variations Fixup ToolPart 12 – CustomizationPart 13 – LoggingPart […]