During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail with the following error: failed to create sample data “The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or sid that cannot be translated” To resolve this issue I attempted to run all SharePoint servers as the local […]
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During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail to register SharePoint services. The following error was displayed: Exception: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed. To correct this issue we add two registry key values: – “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\<version>\LauncherSettings” – […]
I spent sometime today renaming SharePoint 2013 Servers for a project I was pulled in on. It involved using PowerShell cmdlets and other administrative tasks. The project required me to “Clone” SharePoint farm servers to make template environments for demonstration and development task. I originally followed steps provided here: Renaming SharePoint then later streamlined the process so its […]