Monday, March 08, 2010

[MOSS/WSSv3] Error while deploying a solution

[ISSUE]
Last week I encountered an issue while deploying a solution. I received the following error "This operation uses the SharePoint Administration service (spadmin), which could not be contacted. If the service is stopped or disabled, start it and try the operation again."

[SITUATION]
The environment I was working on consisted out of three servers, one web front end, one application and one database server. The application server is running the Central Administration role. The above error was thrown on the web front end server.

[CAUSE]
This issue was caused by a bug in the .NET Framework v2.0. After deploying this update, the issue was solved and the deployment ran fine.

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