{"id":107,"date":"2010-02-22T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T07:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsiegmund.wordpress.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:47:44","slug":"task-configdb-has-failed-with-an-unknown-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/2010\/02\/task-configdb-has-failed-with-an-unknown-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I tried installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto my Windows 7 laptop. After following all the steps mentioned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee554869(office.14).aspx\">MSDN article<\/a>, I ran into an error.<\/p>\n<p>Because I already had a SQL2008 installation, I didn&#8217;t go for the stand alone installation, but I chose a server farm setup. When running the config wizard for the first time; you need to specify the SQL server where your configuration database will reside. I chose my local installation and provided username \/ password. After that, the wizard would fail with the error &#8216;Specified value is not supported for the {0} parameter.&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I tried again, but it would consequently fail. Then I took a better look at the actual error in the log file:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exception: System.ArgumentException: Specified value is not supported for the {0} parameter.<br \/>\nat Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUserUtility.GetDomainControllerToSearch(SPWebApplication webApp, String domainName)<br \/>\nat Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.GetDomainAndPropColl(SPWebApplication webApplicaiton, String loginName, String[]&amp; resolveUserAdProperties, SPActiveDirectoryDomain&amp; gcPath, ResultPropertyCollection&amp; propcol)<br \/>\nat Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.GetUserPropertiesFromAD(SPWebApplication webApplicaiton, String loginName, String[]&amp; origUserAdProperties)<br \/>\nat Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.GetUserPropertyFromAD(SPWebApplication webApplicaiton, String loginName, String propertyName)&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so it seems it needs the AD for something&#8230; Ah!&#8230;\u00a0I used my AD account for access to SQL server. It seems the configurator needs some additional info from Active Directory. Since I was sitting at home without any connection to my work network (where the AD resides), the additional info couldn&#8217;t be retrieved. Once I tried the same steps whilst connected, everything worked fine.<\/p>\n<p>As always; the error message couldn&#8217;t be more clear \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I tried installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto my Windows 7 laptop. After following all the steps mentioned in the MSDN article, I ran into an error. Because I already had a SQL2008 installation, I didn&#8217;t go for the stand alone installation, but I chose a server farm setup. When running the config<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3KFR1-1J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}