Today I had a weird and frustrating situation with the Microsoft ServiceBus and Workflow Manager installation at one of my customers. There was no way I could configure ServiceBus, and the log was throwing a bunch of errors that I couldn\u2019t really figure out (NullReferenceException and  co.). So I decided the best thing would be to uninstall the ServiceBus from the scratch.<\/p>\n

Issue #1: Windows Fabric not working<\/h3>\n

ServiceBus would not install, nor uninstall, since WindowsFabric service was, for some reason, not working.  I guess the reason for that was one well known blog post which is suggesting to uninstall WindowsFabric before uninstalling ServiceBus. DON\u2019T EVER DO THAT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\nEach install\/uninstall\/join operation on the ServiceBus will otherwise end up with the error:<\/p>\n

\n[Error] [13.05.2013 10:33:57]: System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException: \nService FabricHostSvc was not found on computer '.'. \n---> System.InvalidOperationException: Service FabricHostSvc was not found on computer '.'. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: \nThe specified service does not exist as an installed service\n   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---\n   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GenerateNames()\n   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.get_ServiceName()\n   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GetServiceHandle(Int32 desiredAccess)\n   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.get_ServiceHandle()\n   at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Commands.Common.SecurityHelper.GrantUserServiceRestartPrivilege(String serviceName, SecurityIdentifier securityIdentifier)\n   at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Commands.AddSBHost.ProcessRecordImplementation()\n   at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Commands.ServiceBusBaseCmdlet.ProcessRecord()\n   at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()\n   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---\n   at System.Management.Automation.PowerShell.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult asyncResult)\n   at Microsoft.ServiceBus.ConfigWizard.CommandletHelper.InvokePowershell(Command command, Action`3 updateProgress)\n   at Microsoft.ServiceBus.ConfigWizard.ProgressPageViewModel.AddSBNode(FarmCreationModel model, Boolean isFirstCommand)\n<\/pre>\n
Well, if the damage has already been done, this is what you can do.<\/p>\n
What you need to do, is to separately install the WindowsFabric package. But, that is not that straight forward as one might think. You need to get an offline copy of the WindowsFabric. <\/p>\n
Run this command in the command prompt:<\/p>\n
\nWebpiCmd.exe \/offline \/products:WindowsFabric \/Path:c:tempOfflineCache\n<\/pre>\n
and Platform Installer will try to get the WindowsFabric offline, in the folder \u201cC:tempOfflineCache\u201d. Now, it will break, since it can\u2019t find some windowsazure.jpg icon. I don\u2019t want to comment on that one. <\/p>\n
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To resolve the issue, navigate to the folder \u201cC:tempOfflineCachefeedslatestoriginalfeeds\u201d, and open in editor the file \u201cwebproductlist.xml\u201d. Replace all instances of the file \u201chttp:\/\/iis-webstack\/test\/windowsazureinstaller\/beta\/windowsazure.jpg<\/a>\u201d with any windowsazure.jpg on any web server. You can use \u201chttp:\/\/adis.jugo.ba\/temp\/windowsazure.jpg<\/a>\u201d, that will work. <\/p>\n
Now, with the changed webproductlist.xml, get the files again, directing the files list to the new file:<\/p>\n
\nwebpicmd.exe \/offline \/products:WindowsFabric \/Path:c:tempWindowsFabricInstaller \/xml:file:\/\/\/C:tempOfflineCachefeedslatestoriginalfeedswebproductlist.xml\n<\/pre>\n
This will get the WindowsFabric installer files in the c:tempWindowsFabricInstaller folder. It will again break on something, but doesn\u2019t matter, since the most important file, \u201cWindowsFabric.msi\u201d is downloaded, and can be found in one of the subfolders of the \u201cC:tempWindowsFabricInstallerinstallersWindowsFabric\u201d folder. <\/p>\n
Install it, and that should do, ServiceBus can be installed and deinstalled now <\/p>\n
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