Vivek Malviya's (MSFT) Blog

This blog deals with Tips & Tricks, Information, Setup and troubleshooting MICROSOFT SharePoint, FAST search and SharePoint related technologies

Part3: Troubleshooting Kerberos authentication and things to check when it fails

This is a continuation post of part1 and part2 of my "Integrated Windows Authentication blog series"...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 02/02/2018

Part2: Step by step Guide for Configuring Kerberos Authentication in SharePoint 2013/2016

This is a continuation of part1 of my Integrated Windows Authentication blog series. In this post,...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 01/26/2018

Part1: Explaining Integrated Windows Authentication in SharePoint and How NTLM fails but Kerberos works in Double-Hop authentication

This is Part 1 in my Integrated Windows Authentication (Negotiate, NTLM, Kerberos) Blog Series (What...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 01/23/2018

Adding custom UPA Properties by Configuring profile synchronization using BCS connection and custom SQL database

Consider a scenario where you have some property values of some users stored somewhere else, not in...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 06/06/2016

Cannot login to SharePoint site with ADFS AUTH- Error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.

I came across a scenario where ADFS site login was failing for SharePoint 2013 site, for one of my...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 06/01/2016

Error opening Office documents in SharePoint 2013 website

For one of my Premier customers, Office documents were giving an error while opening in SharePoint...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 05/31/2016

Fast Search 2010 - While running 'get-FASTSearchSettingGroup' command, Getting error: "Failed to communicate with the WCF service."

For one of my Premier 'FAST search for SharePoint 2010' customers, 'get-FASTSearchSettingGroup'...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 05/26/2016

"SharePoint Administration" service missing from windows services

For one of my Premier customers, SharePoint administration Service went missing from Windows...

Author: VivekMSFT Date: 05/25/2016