Operations started by an earlier run of the farm configuration wizard are still in progress

Operations started by an earlier run of the farm configuration wizard are still in progress

“Operations started by an earlier run of the Farm Configuration Wizard are still in progress. You must wait for those operations to complete before running the wizard again. You can monitor the status of these operations by looking at the “Farm Configuration Wizard” timer job on the Timer Job Status page in the Monitoring section of Central Administration.”

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If we click on “Launch the Farm configuration wizard” in central administration will see the error                               

                 

Cause: This issue will occur some times when we try to open the central administration after running the PSConfig.exe completes. The reason behind this is After the PSConfig completes, still  there are some tasks that are running. We can wait for some time or we can close the existing browser and open Central admin in another browser to work. If still not work, then follow the below steps to avoid the error.

Solution:

If you want to avoid the error message you will need to delete the Job Definition for the Farm Configuration Wizard.

1.    Go to – Central Administration > Monitoring > Review Job Definitions

2.    Find the “Farm configuration wizard” job definition

3.    Click on the job, you can see the below screen. Delete the job by clicking on delete option   

        

4.    Do IISRESET if required

5.    Once delete the job you can see the Wizard page and you should see the  farm configuration wizard

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Psconfig Steps at each task

Psconfig Steps at each task

           

check out What happens when we run the Post Setup configuration Wizard . After setup is run the post setup configuration wizard must be run to complete the process of either creating a new farm or joining a server to an existing farm.

Step 1 -      Initialize SharePoint products and technologies configuration

  Note - It Initializes the configuration and has very less chances of failing on this step.

Step 2 -    Create Configuration database.

   Note - It creates a new configuration Database in the SQL. You need to have proper rights to create a database.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863%28v=office.14%29.aspx

 Setup user account - The Setup user account is used to run the following:

·        Setup

·        SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard

·        Domain user account.

·        Member of the Administrators group on each server on which Setup is run.

·        SQL Server login on the computer that runs SQL Server.

·        Member of the following SQL Server roles:

·        securityadmin fixed server role

·        dbcreator fixed server role

If you run Windows Power Shell cmdlets that affect a database, this account must be a member of the db_owner fixed database role for the database.

If you find an issue Connecting SharePoint to the SQL server. Create a UDL file and check for the  connectivity. For further information on UDL check the link below

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/farukcelik/archive/2007/12/31/basics-first-udl-test.aspx

Step 3 -      Install help collections

Step 4 -       Secure SharePoint resources

Step 5 -      Register SharePoint Services

·        Successfully provisioned service: Windows SharePoint Services  Usage.

·        Successfully installed service instance: Windows SharePoint Services Usage

·        Successfully provisioned service instance: Windows SharePoint Services Usage

·        Successfully installed service: Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.SharedSBdcService.

·        Successfully provisioned service: Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.Sharee.BdcService.

 Step 6 -   Register SharePoint features

·        Successfully installed feature C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Sh…

·        Server Extensions\14\Template\Features\SPSearchFeature\Feature.xml.

·        Successfully installed feature C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Sh

·        b Server Extensions\14\Template\Features\TenantAdmin\feature.xml.

Step 7 -    Provision Central Administration Web application and site if   Standalone install.

Step 8 -    Register SharePointHealth Analysis rules

Step 9 -    Create sample data and provision default Web application

Step 10 -   Install application content files

·        Installing the application content files...

·        Installing the SharePoint Central Administration Web Application content.

·        Installing the SharePoint Web Application content files...

Step 11 -   Finalize SharePoint product and technologies configuration

One new feature of SharePoint Foundation 2010 is that it will automatically set up inbound Windows firewall rules when provisioning a Web application or Web services. During PSConfig, steps above firewall rules will be created for newly created Web applications and services