Project Server 2010/2013 – how to Deselect and Select ALL Resources

I received support call from a user about selecting and deselecting ALL Resources in Resource Centre. There is no obvious ribbon option to choose from.

What you need to do is to CLICK the Top Left hand corner of the Resource Centre grid which then provides dropdown options to ‘Select All’ or ‘Clear All’. Nice hidden feature! Perhaps this should have been on the ribbon to make it more obvious to the end-users!

In order to see your selected resources, check the ‘Selected Resources’ check box in the Resources Ribbon within ‘Show/Hide’ section.

 

Hope this helps

SharePoint 2013 – Resolving UserProfileImportJob errors

Came across this issue whereby the ‘UserProfileImportJob’ was throwing out a lot errors in the event viewer. See example below.

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileImportJob (ID d8644501-7ee7-49bb-aa27-1da0cf1bd1ba) threw an exception. More information is included below.

There was no endpoint listening at http://PSL:5725/ResourceManagementService/MEX that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.

On investigation, it was determined that the 'Forefront Identity Manager Service' was not  running.

Restarted this service and all started working smoothly!!

SharePoint/Project Server 2013 – ‘Manage services on server’ link is missing?

Applies: SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013 Administrators

So you logged into SharePoint Central Admin and noticed that the ‘Manage services on server’ link is missing from System Settings and Application Management > Service Applications

The reason is that you are not running Internet Explorer with Administrative Rights. Simply, right click on IE and select ‘RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR’ and voila!! the link appears.

I personally launch SharePoint Central Administrator in Administrative Mode each time I administer SharePoint/Project Server.

Hope this helps!

Error when creating Search Service Application - User does not have permission to perform this action

I was contacted by a SharePoint Administrator with an issue relating to SharePoint Search. The user encountered the following error when provisioning a Search Service Application.

The resolution is simple;

Ensure that SharePoint Farm Service Account has the following roles in SQL;

1. DB creator
2. Security Admin

The latter was found to be missing in this case.

Hope this helps.

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