Strausy's O365/SharePoint KB

I have been pulling my limited hair out for a week trying to figure out why a Site Owner will Full Control on the site would always get denied when they tried to respond to Access Requests. When they received the email and clicked on " Accept or decline this request " which goes to https://[siteurl]/ Access Requests/pendingreq.aspx they would get " Sorry, this site hasn't been shared with you. " Preliminary Troubleshooting Steps I went through each and every permission group on the site to make sure the Site Owner group was the owner of the group. I went through each list or library that had broken site permissions and made sure the Site Owners group had Full Control of those as well. They all did. Then I looked at the Permission Level of the Site Owner's group. It said Full Control, but it also had that awful "Limited Access" permission. This site had many owners and many times they all tried their best to limit access to certain things and

SharePoint_Server_Name = Trouble_Ahead I recently had a friend of mine ask for some SharePoint 2013 troubleshooting help. It seemed that the server was running fine (Single Server Farm) but trying to configure a Secure Store Target Application for Excel Services that was causing grief. The error message was  "Your session has expired. Restart this wizard to continue." The Correlation ID has a few errors, but one in particular stated  "_admin/sssvc/ managetargetapplicationinstanc e.aspx' doesn't match the Page '_admin/sssvc/ managetargetapplicationfields. aspx"  which in itself is not very useful.  But looking more into that error and noticing the server name is  sharepoint_dev  a light went on and a feeling of dread for said friend.  SharePoint doesn't like underscores in server names, especially service apps on a single server farm where Central Admin is using the server name as the URL.  You have two options really.  You can rebui