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SharePoint–Profile Pictures no longer show after MySite URL change

I was recently installed SharePoint 2013 and had it staged under a different hostname so that I could just migrate IP’s and create CNAME DNS records for minimal downtime. However I found that once I had everything swapped to the new server the profile photos wouldn’t work anymore and I kept getting error messages when running the User Profile Sync. The errors that showed up in the event log were from SharePoint Foundation and FIMSynchonizationService

Error: 8311 “An operating failed because the following certificate has validation errors. SSL policy error have been encountered. Error code ‘0x2’ ” – I found this issue to be related to the sync using the old URL but the web site in IIS had a different (correct) SSL certificate. Once I realized what was happening I deleted a CNAME DNS record I had “mysite2” and started getting the next error”

Error 6801: “The remote name could not be resolved: ‘mysite2.xxxxx.com’ – This is because I removed the CNAME DNS record.

To Fix

You need to use the trust tool Update-SPProfilePhotoStore and tell it of the change in Uri’s.

Update-SPProfilePhotoStore –MySiteHostLocation “https://mysite.xxxx.com/mysite/” -OldBaseUri "https://mysite2.xxxx.com/mysite/User Photos/Profile Pictures/" -NewBaseUri "https://mysite.xxxx.com/mysite/MySite/User Photos/Profile Pictures/"

SharePoint – Export All Documents on Site and Sub-Sites

Brandon / PowerShell, SharePoint / Leave a Comment

I was eliminating a site on SharePoint that had over 50 sub-sites. I wanted an easy way to get all the documents in each site without having to manually visit each one. Here is an easy PowerShell script I came up with.

#Created by Brandon Claps
#9/25/14
#Exports all documents under a specific site and sub-sites to a local directory
  
#Address of your SharePoint root site
$MainSiteAddress = "https://sharepointsite.contoso.com"
  
#URL of what you you would like to gather. Type a single asterisk if you want everything
$MatchURL = "*URLAddress*"
  
#Destination where you want to download the documents to
$destination = "D:\Exported Documents"
  
  
$Site = Get-SPSite $MainSiteAddress
$WebCollection = $Site.AllWebs
  
foreach($Web in $WebCollection)
{
    foreach($List in $Web.Lists)
    {
        if($List.ParentWebUrl -like $MatchURL)
        {
            if($List.BaseTemplate -eq "DocumentLibrary")
            {                                
                $webUrl = $MainSiteAddress + $List.ParentWebUrl
                $listUrl = $webUrl + "/" + $List.RootFolder.Url
                
                $web2 = Get-SPWeb -Identity $webUrl
                $list2 = $web2.GetList($listUrl)
                
                function ProcessFolder 
                {
                    param($folderUrl)
                    $folder = $web2.GetFolder($folderUrl)
                    
                    foreach ($file in $folder.Files) 
                    {
                        $destinationfolder = $destination + "/" + $List.ParentWebUrl.TrimStart("/").Replace("/","-") + "---" + $folder.Url 
                        if (!(Test-Path -path $destinationfolder))
                        {
                            $dest = New-Item $destinationfolder -type directory 
                        }
                        
                        $binary = $file.OpenBinary()
                        $stream = New-Object System.IO.FileStream($destinationfolder + "/" + $file.Name), Create
                        $writer = New-Object System.IO.BinaryWriter($stream)
                        $writer.write($binary)
                        $writer.Close()
                    }
                }
                Write-Host "Downloading: " $listUrl 
                ProcessFolder($list2.RootFolder.Url)
            
                foreach ($folder in $list2.Folders) {
                    ProcessFolder($folder.Url)
                }                                
            }        
        }        
    }
 }

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