{"id":1796,"date":"2011-11-20T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2011-11-20T22:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:30:30","slug":"microsoft-identitymanagement-solutionpackutility-exe-crashing-fim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/microsoft-identitymanagement-solutionpackutility-exe-crashing-fim","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft.IdentityManagement.SolutionPackUtility.exe crashing FIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a weird problem on a dev box. Whenever I launched Synchronization Service Manager, and sometimes even just when opening the properties of a MA, everything would stop while the server seemingly tried to install something in the background. Running taskmgr.exe revealed Microsoft.IdentityManagement.SolutionPackUtility.exe and TrustedInstaller.exe were running.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At first I was just killing these tasks and then the Sync Service Manager would run properly, but then I started working with the Portal as well &#8211; and I noticed that, increasingly, I was getting 503 Service Not Available errors when I tried to access the Portal.<\/p>\n<p>The first couple of times it happened I reinstalled\u00c2\u00a0the Portal by using the &#8220;Change&#8221; option in Add\/Remove Programs.\u00c2\u00a0This\u00c2\u00a0got it working again -\u00c2\u00a0 but before long I&#8217;d have to restart the Sync Service Manager, I&#8217;d get that whole thing with Microsoft.IdentityManagement.SolutionPackUtility.exe again, and immediately after an inaccessible Portal with 503 errors. Clearly the two problems were linked!<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I solved the problem by reinstalling Sharepoint. I had to completely uninstall WSS <em>and<\/em> the Windows Internal Database. I then reinstalled WSS and the FIM Service and Portal. I used my original FIMService database so I didn&#8217;t lose any of my work.<\/p>\n<p>I did see <a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/wiki\/contents\/articles\/4152.aspx\">Tim&#8217;s post on the technet wiki<\/a> with a similar sounding problem but I didn&#8217;t see the job definition in Sharepoint that he mentions, so it wasn&#8217;t exactly the same root cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a weird problem on a dev box. Whenever I launched Synchronization Service Manager, and sometimes even just when opening the properties of a MA, everything would stop while the server seemingly tried to install something in the background. Running taskmgr.exe revealed Microsoft.IdentityManagement.SolutionPackUtility.exe and TrustedInstaller.exe were running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fim-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkp1o-sY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}