I cannot add a user in a SharePoint Security Group

Sadly, you cannot add a user in a SharePoint Group without getting this message:

Here is the solution:

Changing the Central Administration port

Next to a port conflict between SharePoint and Data Protector, we have to modify the Central Administration port. These one has to be moved from 5555 to 4444.

"Namespace prefix 'xsd' is not defined" (Compatibility between SharePoint 2010 and IE9)

As usually, a problem starts with the following screen:

Here is an error which fired while we were adding a new user to a SharePoint 2010 Security Group. What can we do?

How to get error message from the Correlation ID

As usually, a problem starts with the following screen:

 

This message do not really indicates what happened to your SharePoint. You just get the date and time, a Correlation ID and an explicit description saying: "An unexpected error has occurred".

 

What to do with about these information? How tot get more details? There are several solutions that you can you find in this article.

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