During configuration of a new SharePoint 2019 farm I got an error in PowerShell Cmdlet New-SPConfigurationDatabase.
The given key was not present in the directory.
I found some hints… E.g.: http://alstechtips.blogspot.com/2014/04/sharepoint-2013-given-key-was-not.html
I checked the farm account used with the Cmdlet.
I found that the farm account did not have “Read” permission for “All Authenticated Users”.
After granting this permission the Cmdlet succeeded.
It has been described lots of times before. It’s just for the records…
This code sets the used TLS version for secure HTTP connections to version 1.2
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Here are the valid values:
SystemDefault
Ssl3
Tls
Tls11
Tls12
The latests supported version depends on your .NET Framework. On Windows 10 20H2 the setting Tls13 will work too.
With this code you can list the valid values:
[Net.SecurityProtocolType]::GetNames([Net.SecurityProtocolType])A little bit outdated. I know.
But customers not always have the latest server versions running.
Today a customer asked me how to create a self signed SSL certificate with “subject alternate names” (SAN) using PowerShell on Windows Server 2012 R2.
The default cmdlet “New-SelfSignedCertificate” has not all features on this server OS.
The customer found a script but it did not offer SAN. I found another one (in german language) that gave me the other information…
Sources:
https://www.symplasson.de/it-blog/san-erweiterung-csr-windows-ca
I assembled both scripts. Here is the result.
# script assembled from these sources
# - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/vishalagarwal/generating-a-certificate-self-signed-using-powershell-and-certenroll-interfaces
# - https://www.symplasson.de/it-blog/san-erweiterung-csr-windows-ca
# …by Ingo Karstein ( ik a.t. kenaro.com)
#
# Useful e.g. on Windows Server 2012R2 because there are less functionality in cmdlet New-SelfSignedCertificate.
#
# The SSL cert ist written to certstore "My" of "LocalMachine"
$name = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CX500DistinguishedName.1"
$name.Encode("CN=srv", 0)
$key = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CX509PrivateKey.1"
$key.ProviderName = "Microsoft RSA SChannel Cryptographic Provider"
$key.KeySpec = 1
$key.Length = 4096
$key.SecurityDescriptor = "D:PAI(A;;0xd01f01ff;;;SY)(A;;0xd01f01ff;;;BA)(A;;0x80120089;;;NS)"
$key.MachineContext = 1
$key.Create()
$serverauthoid = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CObjectId.1"
$serverauthoid.InitializeFromValue("1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1")
$AlternativeNames=@("srv", "localhost")
$AlternativeIPs=@("127.0.0.1", "::1")
$SAN = New-Object -ComObject X509Enrollment.CX509ExtensionAlternativeNames
$IANs = New-Object -ComObject X509Enrollment.CAlternativeNames
foreach ($SANstr in $AlternativeNames)
{
$IAN = New-Object -ComObject X509Enrollment.CAlternativeName
$IAN.InitializeFromString(0x3,$SANstr)
$IANs.Add($IAN)
}
foreach ($SANstr in $AlternativeIPs)
{
$IAN = New-Object -ComObject X509Enrollment.CAlternativeName
$IAN.InitializeFromString(0x3,$SANstr)
$IANs.Add($IAN)
$IAI = New-Object -ComObject X509Enrollment.CAlternativeName
$IAI.InitializeFromRawData(8, 0x1,
[Convert]::ToBase64String(
([System.Net.IpAddress] $SANstr).GetAddressBytes())) $IANs.Add($IAI)
}
$SAN.InitializeEncode($IANs)
$ekuoids = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CObjectIds.1"
$ekuoids.add($serverauthoid)
$ekuext = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CX509ExtensionEnhancedKeyUsage.1"
$ekuext.InitializeEncode($ekuoids)
$cert = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CX509CertificateRequestCertificate.1"
$cert.InitializeFromPrivateKey(2, $key, "")
$cert.Subject = $name
$cert.Issuer = $cert.Subject
$cert.NotBefore = (get-date).AddDays(-1)
$cert.NotAfter = $cert.NotBefore.Addyears(50)
$cert.X509Extensions.Add($ekuext)
$cert.X509Extensions.Add($SAN)
$cert.Encode()
$enrollment = new-object -com "X509Enrollment.CX509Enrollment.1"
$enrollment.InitializeFromRequest($cert)
$certdata = $enrollment.CreateRequest(0)
$enrollment.InstallResponse(2, $certdata, 0, "")I got this error:
Search Service Application: Crawl Log – Error Breakdown
| Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has “Full Read” permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. |
…but the “default content access account” already had “Full Read” permission on the web application.
Maybe the server requires a reboot after changing the configuration.
I got the following error:
Exception returned from back end service. System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[System.ServiceModel.ExceptionDetail]: AccessDeniedEx:The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation. (Fault Detail is equal to An ExceptionDetail, likely created by IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true, whose value is: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: AccessDeniedEx:The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.MetadataWebServiceApplication.CheckPermission(SPIisWebServiceApplicationRights requiredPermissions)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.TaxonomyDatabaseMapper.GetTermSetWithAllTerms(Guid rawPartitionId, Guid termSetGuid, Boolean includeDeprecated, Boolean limitMembership)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.MetadataWebServiceApplication.GetTermSetWithAllTerms(Guid rawPartitionId, Guid termSetGuid, Boolean includeDeprecated, Boolean limitMembership)
at SyncInvokeGetTermSetWithAllTerms(Object , Object[] , Object[] )
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatche…).
Metadata backend service request ExpectedFailure: Metadata backend service request failed in a authorized access exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[System.ServiceModel.ExceptionDetail]: AccessDeniedEx:The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation. (Fault Detail is equal to An ExceptionDetail, likely created by IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true, whose value is: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: AccessDeniedEx:The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.MetadataWebServiceApplication.CheckPermission(SPIisWebServiceApplicationRights requiredPermissions)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.TaxonomyDatabaseMapper.GetTermSetWithAllTerms(Guid rawPartitionId, Guid termSetGuid, Boolean includeDeprecated, Boolean limitMembership)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.MetadataWebServiceApplication.GetTermSetWithAllTerms(Guid rawPartitionId, Guid termSetGuid, Boolean includeDeprecated, Boolean limitMembership)
at SyncInvokeGetTermSetWithAllTerms(Object , Object[] , Object[] )
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatche…).
If you are running your Search Service Application using a different account than the farm account then you need to grant “Full Control” permission the this account on the Managed Metadata Service Application!
Today I did some SharePoint 2016 => 2019 migration tests for a customer.
I set up the new farm weeks ago, but today I saw the following error for the first time in the SharePoint ULS and Windows Event Log:
Entering Monitored Scope (Storage Metrics processing timer job). Parent=Timer Job job-storage-metrics-processing
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Fehler beim Konvertieren einer Zeichenfolge in ein Datum und/oder eine Uhrzeit.
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action1 wrapCloseInAction) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString, Boolean isInternal, Boolean forDescribeParameterEncryption, Boolean shouldCacheForAlwaysEncrypted) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async, Int32 timeout, Task& task, Boolean asyncWrite, Boolean inRetry, SqlDataReader ds, Boolean describeParameterEncryptionRequest) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, TaskCompletionSource1 completion, Int32 timeout, Task& task, Boolean& usedCache, Boolean asyncWrite, Boolean inRetry)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(TaskCompletionSource`1 completion, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe, Int32 timeout, Boolean& usedCache, Boolean asyncWrite, Boolean inRetry)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SqlSession.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand command, SqlInfoMessageEventHandler handler) ClientConnectionId:c66450bf-adc7-4fc4-bbcd-e9e2c050a75a Error Number:241,State:1,Class:16
Unknown SQL Exception 241 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. Fehler beim Konvertieren einer Zeichenfolge in ein Datum und/oder eine Uhrzeit.
It happens during execution of the SP timer job “Storage Metrics Processing” (technical name: “job-storage-metrics-processing”).
In the “job history” in the Central Administration I could see the affected database. It was one of the migrated database I mounted before to the new SP farm.
After two hours I found the solution:
In SQL Server the login for the new farm account “sp-farm-new” was set to DEFAULT LANGUAGE = GERMAN.
I changed the DEFAULT LANGUAGE of all accounts to “ENGLISH” and the error was gone.
I checked all SP service accounts of the old farm: They are all set to DEFAULT LANGUAGE = ENGLISH.
In Microsoft Edge the default behaviour of “new tab” is it to open a customizable page with Microsoft Bing and other content. The content can be disabled but there is no way to change the “new tab” page completely.
Here is a PowerShell snippet to do it, tested on Windows Server 2019. Not working on Windows 10 Pro 20H2 / MS Edge 88.
if( (get-item "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" -ea Ignore) -eq $null) {
New-Item "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge"
}
if( (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" -Name NewTabPageLocation -ea 0) -eq $null ) {
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" -Name NewTabPageLocation -PropertyType String -Value "https://google.de"
} else {
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" -Name NewTabPageLocation -Value "https://google.de"
}
Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" -Name NewTabPageLocation Update…
It does not work on a machine that is not domain joined. 🙁
Here I found a possible solution for Windows 10:
Just as a reminder.
When getting this error:
The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.
…just add this to your PowerShell script:
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
I have some development machines with Visual Studio 2017 and/or 2019 installed. Too many to constantly install updates in.
For a long time I was looking for a solution for this, but I did not find one. Supposedly the automatic update of Visual Studio is not possible.
In the end… I have found a way.
In a nutshell:
Look at this:
This is more “for the record” than it makes real sense. But why not? For a few years “PS2EXE” was represented on Technet and has over 90.000 downloads to date. That is super great. – Meanwhile there is also a successor, which I didn’t develop, but it seems to be alive. That makes me happy, even if a bit wistful, because I didn’t manage to stay on the ball with this little project.
So here is the link: https://github.com/ikarstein/ps2exe
