Friday, July 20, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Preview Setup and Configuration - Error with AppFabric Cache

I needed to set up the SharePoint 2013 Preview on a standalone VM, but I was running into this problem while running the SharePoint 2013 Product Configuration Wizard:

ErrorCode:ERRCAdmin024 SubStatus:ES0001 Failed to refresh all running servers in the cluster. You may need to restart the cluster for these changes to take effect.

UPDATE: Thanks to Роман, you get this working by just using the account that connects to the database.
A little research showed that this problem had to do with the App Fabric Cache.  A little further research indicated that other folks were having problems with the App Fabric Cache and the SharePoint 2013 Preview. 

I don't think I need the App Fabric Cache on my stand-alone evaluation machine (tell me if I'm wrong), so I was able to work around the error and get a working SharePoint 2013 environment by following these steps:

1. Open a PowerShell command prompt

2. cd to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN

3. Substituting your own values where needed, run the command:

.\PSCONFIG.EXE -cmd Configdb create SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost user AWBIKES\Administrator password pass@word1

4. Re-run the SharePoint 2013 Product Configuration Wizard.  It should run right through the first 3 steps and start processing from step 4.

Note, you may have to clean up databases created from previously failed attempts by the wizard.  You may also have to detach from the farm of a previously failed attempt.

8 comments:

Eric Fang said...

Thanks Tony, you saved me a lot of time!

Unknown said...

Given that there are many VMs, it would have been useful to read which one you were trying to install on.

My guess is the Microsoft Windows Hyper-V but I may be wrong.

Tony Bierman said...

No problem, Eric. Glad to help.

Роман Блинов said...
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Роман Блинов said...

First there was the exact same error, but when I ran the installation from the same user that connects to the database server it worked.

Tony Bierman said...

Роман,

Thanks, that's good to know.

Tony

SK said...

Thanks to Роман. I got this working by using the account that connects to the DB.

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