Issue
The SharePoint 2010 Administration Service does not start in one or any of the Servers. Additionally, the following errors are logged in Event Viewer on the SharePoint server when trying to start the SharePoint 2010 Administration Service.
Error: 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
Impact
No administration tasks can be run, like Deployment and Retraction of solution WSP packages etc.
Resolution
Manually start the administration job by executing the following PowerShell command after scheduling any administration job.
- Command: Start-SPAdminJob
- Action: Immediately starts any waiting administrative job on the local computer.
For load balanced (multi WFE) environments, the Start-SPAdminJob command needs to be run on every server after scheduling each admin job.
Problem Scenario
Deploying a WSP file with SharePoint 2010 Administration service stopped.
- If already installed, then uninstall the solution using the Uninstall-SPSolution command (or by the Central administration wizard) which will schedules an Uninstall solution timer job.
To run the timer job execute the Start-SPAdminJob PowerShell command. This will complete the Uninstall step.
- To install the solution run the Install-SPSolution command (or by the Central administration wizard) which will schedule an Install solution timer job.
To run the timer job execute the Start-SPAdminJob PowerShell command. This will complete the Install step.
- The rest of the deployment activities will not require the SharePoint 2010 Administration service and will run without any issue. If any other deployment activities are not running due to the same issue, repeat the step to run the PowerShell command.
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