Richard's SharePoint Blog

After applying the Feb CU to SharePoint DEV environment, a few development VMs are having issues with managed metadata services.  Most of the VMs, experience issues on the My Profile Edit page where all the term set properties are getting the following error: There was a problem retrieving data for this field.  Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily.  You can still update values in other fields. Also, if you're trying to enter a hashtag when posting a newsfeed, you'll get The tagging service is currently unavailable, Please try again later. After some investigation, our infrastructure guys figuring out the solution to fix it.  You have to do the following: 1.        Open a Command Prompt window using Farm account and at the command prompt, type:   cd /d %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\15\BIN   2.        Fix the permissions on the server by entering the following command:   psconfig -cmd secureresources   3.        Restar

I was troubleshooting a production issue about permission.  The scenario is as follow.  We have the following team site structure Team Site A Team Site B User A doesn't have permission to Team Site A or B except permission to manage a list in Team Site B.  So, User A only has Limited Access Permission for Team Site B.  By default, it should allow User A the ability to contribute and add item in the list.  However, User A is getting the following error: "The server was unable to save the form at this time.  Please try again". After some investigation and research, I figured out it was because the feature, Limited access lockdown mode", was enabled. ViewFormPagesLockDown(Restrict Limited Access Permissions) Site 7c637b23-06c4-472d-9a9a-7c175762c5c4 Prevents members of the Limited Access role from viewing forms pages and accessing APIs remotely. When this feature is enabled, users with only limited access will not have permission to use remote