Bamboo Nation uses the SharePoint Solution Installer to deploy their Web Parts. When installing their Project Management Central suite of web parts, the installer would pause on the "Waiting (max. 15 minutes) for solution deployment…" screen before moving onto the next Web Part. After waiting through a couple of these (and refusing to wait through 26 of them) and then clicking
Abort, I was presented with the log file which contained a bunch of timeout errors.
The installation process actually depends on the following two services being started or set to Automatic.
- Windows SharePoint Services Administration
- Windows SharePoint Services Timer
Both of these services were set to Automatic on my machine, so I almost ruled it out as a problem. The Administration service was started, but the timer service was not. Just to make sure, I tried to start the timer service and It failed.
The key difference between these two services lies in the
Log On As column. The
Windows SharePoint Services Timer service is set to log on with with my domain credentials.
I had recently changed my domain password. Updating my password on the
Log On tab of the property screen for the timer service fixed the problem, and my Bamboo Nation Project Management Central installed perfectly.
