SharePoint passphrase recovery

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:11:29 +0000

Was doing a Service Pack upgrade on a SharePoint installation and hit an unexpected error:

Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The object LDAP://CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products,CN=System,DC=xxx,DC=com doesn’t exist in the directory.

This seemed odd - I’d just completed the same process on a different environment and didn’t hit the same issue. And after checking with one of the domain admins… confirmed that this container does not exist at all. So it seems it’s a spurious issue.

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SharePoint passphrase recovery