SharePoint 2013 Installation and Configuration Issues! – SharePoint Database Repair Blogs

Published by admin on October 27, 2015

# Issue 1:

While you are installing the SharePoint 2013 you may find an error at the time of installation of the Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role: Error while configuration.

Solution:

Steps for fixing (Installation of .Net Framework 3.5):

1. You need to insert the DVD or the ISO image of Windows Server 2012 installation.
2. Then you need to open the command prompt window and run it in the Administrator and run the following command in it.
3. Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:sourcesSxS /LimitAccess

Note: Here the CD Drive is labeled as D:/ it might be in E or F or any in your case. Or you can chose the drive where the Windows Server 2012 ISO image is saved.

D: is a Label for CD Drive in my case where Windows Server 2012 ISO image.

# Issue 2:

While running the Configuration Wizard I you get the following error

“Failed to create the configuration database”

Solution:

To fix this issue you need to change the setting of the SQL Server Instance, this step is optional in SharePoint 2010 but mandatory in 2013.

1. Firstly you need to Open the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
2. Then you need to Login as a sysadmin user
3. Then you need to Right Click on the instance name and after this you need to select the properties >> to Advanced
4. Then you need to Change the Max Degree of Parallelism into 1
5. Then after this you need to restart your SQL Service

# Issue 3:

When you are running the Configuration Wizard I you may even come across the following error

“Failed to secure the SharePoint resources”

Solution:

In order to fix this error you need to change the Owner Folder:

1. For this firstly you need to Go to the C:WindowsTasks
2. Then you need to Right Click on the Tasks Folder and then you need to select the Properties
3. Then you need to Go to the Security Tab
4. Then you need to Click on the Advanced button
5. Then you need to Click on the Change link in the owner filed
6. Then you need to Enter the local Administrators group where the SharePoint account performs installation which belongs to this group

# Issue 4:

While installing the April 2013 Cumulative update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2726992

You may come across the following error:

Solution:

In order to fix this error you need to make sure that you need to keep the cap file with the exe file when you download the package at the time of the installation and the reason for this is that CU has two files when the size is more than 2 GB.

Even making use of all these solutions does not solve your problem then you can take help of reliable third party software such as SharePoint Repair Tool. It is a professional SharePoint Server Recovery software which safely repairs SharePoint databases or SQL Server files and helps you to retrieve back all your crucial information which are stored in SharePoint Server that gets deleted when you move to a latest server. This software can easily extract all the data and the documents from the damaged SharePoint database.

• It effectively solves all the issues that are related to SharePoint database and recover backs all the data that gets inaccessible due to occurrence of these errors.
• Uploads the repaired database back after SharePoint Server problem recovery.

Steps for Recovering the Data deletd after installation error?

1. Firstly launch the SharePoint Recovery Tool you would find an interface. This interface screen displays two options to recover SharePoint data: ‘Complete Repair’ and ‘Document Recovery’ Select as per your requirement.
2. If you choose ‘Complete Repair’, the screen will show the options for selecting and searching SQL Server (.MDF) files. Click on ‘Select File’ to select a SharePoint database for repair. If you do not know the actual path of the database which you want to repair, click on the ‘Search File’ to locate the MDF file in a specific drive. After selecting the desired file initiate the scanning process.
3. After finishing the scan, the software would generate a tree of all SharePoint database tables and will display it in the left pane. You can select the table in the tree and can have the entire preview in the right pane. Then Click on ‘Repair’ to begin repairing for the selected database.
4. After clicking on ‘Repair’, this dialog box will appear. Specify the SQL Server name or Instance name and the desired destination path. Click on the ‘Browse’ option to choose the destination path. And select ‘OK’ button.
5. Once this process gets completed, you would find a dialog box that displays this message ‘Recovered file saved at the desired location. This shows that Recovery Process has successfully completed’. And select ‘OK’ button.
6.  You would find another dialog box that asks whether you want to attach the repaired database to the web application. If you click on ‘Yes’ button, the above dialog box will be displayed. In the web application URL type, the name of the corrupt database and SQL Server Instance name. Then Select ‘OK’ button and proceed. When the process gets finished, you would be able to access the repaired database by opening the web application.

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