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(Please help!!) SharePoint 2016 Products Configuration Wizard Installation Error
Kun...a few things to check:
- The service account that you're using to do the setup should be a local admin on the SharePoint servers.
- Double check the access to SQL.
- Are there any events in the Event Viewer that help?
- The config wizard also generates a log file. Look in that for events leading up to the failure.
If you have additional detailed error messages from these sources please post them.
HTH...Steve
- Kun YuSep 07, 2018Copper Contributor
Thanks Steve!
Here is the detail error message in the log file, and that user account is a local administrator.
I wonder if that user account needs domain administrator permission? The account I am using now is just a domain user. When I use this account to create sql database, it won't let me go through and shows that RPC server is unavailable. So I set up sql using the local server account , and add this domain user to sql users (chris*******) and give it all permissions. I'm not sure that's where it all started. Because I saw a blog it said I need to use a DOMAIN\Administrator account to manage a SQL Server and Sharepoint Server. But on Microsoft official website it only require that is a domain user.
Best!
Kun Yu
- spucelikSep 07, 2018
Microsoft
The account doesn't need to be a domain admin, but it does need the ability to connect to SQL. Are you able to login to SQL Management studio and go through the motions of creating a database? If not then you're account doesn't have the right permissions. They must have db_creator at a minimum.
- Kun YuSep 07, 2018Copper Contributor
Oh, probably this is the root cause.
I appreciate! Steve
I'll try it again follow by this way. Can I get back to you if I have any more problems?