For one of my Premier customers, SharePoint administration Service went missing from Windows services console (Services.msc)
Here are details of the issue and it’s resolution:
Symptoms:
We are not able to see the “SharePoint 2010 Administration” service in Windows services console (services.msc).
When running command: “PSConfig -cmd services -install”, you might also get an error message similar to this:
An exception of type System.UnauthorizedAccessException was thrown. Additional exception information: Access to the path ‘C:ProgramDataMicrosoftSharePointConfig3fc29d1c-b70b-42c0-bdf0-fc5c48f76de1891c821c-cffe-4d42-b959-049955122a33.xml’ is denied.
Cause:
“SharePoint Administration” Service gets removed accidently from the farm either manually or via some 3rd party product.
Resolution:
- We navigated to command prompt > C:windowsMicrosoft.NetFrameworkv2.0.50727
- Ran this command to install SPAdminV4 service:
Installutil -i “C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14BINwssadmin.exe”
- It completed successfully.
- Admin service started appearing in services console and we were able to start it successfully on the SharePoint server.
More Information:
SharePoint Administration service exists in all SharePoint versions and Builds so the article applies to all SharePoint products.