Step 5 : Failed to register SharePoint services
May 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
Recently I tried to install Sharepoint 2010 on a brand new Win2008 with AD installed…
I also made sure that all the prerequisites are installed, but during the Sharepoint configuration wizard, I got
Failed to register SharePoint services.
An exception of type System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException was thrown. Additional exception information: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.
System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.
It happened while registering “SharePoint Foundation Search V4″ and “Sharepoint Server Search 14″. The log file, which wizard refers to is not really that helpful!
After trying couple of times with no luck, I just changed the user name under which the service runs from “Local Services” to “Local System” and also starting the services, while the wizard was running. Just make sure that you start the service while the wizard is still running and is on Step 5.
This fixed the problem..
Good luck!!
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