Month: October 2015

The runtime should revert to the identity of the application pool, but reverting to the application pool must be explicitly enabled for the service application by a farm administrator

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I was trying to change the Authentication Mode of one the External Content Types (BCS) to ‘BDC Identity’ through SharePoint Designer, when this error was thrown.

Solution

The solution was to set the revert to self option of the BCS service to true. To do that, run the following in the Management Shell.

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Error:: <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr>

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I received this error when I was trying to restore a SharePoint 2013 SiteCollection using the Restore-SPSite command. The backup, a .bak file, was created using the Backup-SPSite command in the management shell. Following is the screenshot of the error message:

After little bit of digging, I figured out that the database backup doesn’t seem to be compatible with my latest web application. The issue in fact, also occurred when I tried to restore the db within the same web application whose one of the SiteCollection was backed in the file!
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