Hello all. I am hoping somewone can shed a little light on this.
We recently lost our entire AD domain. AS a result our SharePoint and SQL server were left in the ether. They were both powered down until a new domain could be established. Now we have the new domain, and have successfully added the SQL server to the domain, assecces the master database, and updated all of the service accounts, database permissions and roles.
Following a reboot, the SQL Server came up with no problems. ran a few backups and we were good.
Now for SharePoint, it was also added to the new domain, all of the SharePoint centric services were given new login names and passwords. IIS was opened, and the identities on the app pools were updated, and started. All started and remained running.
ran the following from an administrators console:
stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -login xxxxxxxxxx -password xxxxxxxxxxxx
The account used was the same account used to run the central admin app pool and sharepoint services. (The same account was used to reduce complexity, and different accounts will be used in the future)
We got the following error:
value cannot be null.
Parameter:farm
When I looked this up, the unanymous result was to update the sql services account. We did that with the same result. We even tried changing it to the same account that was used for the central admin app pool and sharePoint service accounts, but we still get the issue.
From looking at the services, app pools, web sites, and the SQL server, all services, and apps are running.
The only other piece of info that may be relevent, is that the account used to run this account is a user (my) personal domain account. The farm service account was used to install SharePoint originally. Since I am a domain admin and in the local adminitrstors group, I don;t think it would matter, but I thought I should mention it.
Long story short: We are down, and I must get the portal back. Any ideas would be graciaously accepted.
