Sharepoint solutions - stuck on retracting or deploying

Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:57:20 +0000

I’m adding this here in the hope it may save someone a few hours of pain and hair-pulling. (i.e., what I’ve just been through.)

If you use solution management in Central Administration in SharePoint - you’ll be fairly used to the whole add-spsolution / install-spsolution / uninstall-spsolution / remove-spsolution stuff that you either run from Powershell or the GUI.

You will also be familiar with the fact that solution management depends on both the SharePoint Timer Service (SPTimerV4) but also the SharePoint Administration service. If either of those services are not running, you will not be able to deploy or retract any solutions. In normal operation, solutions will go in and out like a greased piglet, but, from time to time, things mysteriously stop working. (This is SharePoint after all.)

Stuck on Retracting on Matt Thornton

Sharepoint solutions - stuck on retracting or deploying