Repair SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

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SharePoint Server repair steps are as follows:

Repair on Windows Server with Desktop Experience

  1. Click Start.

  2. Click Settings.

  3. Click Apps.

  4. Click Microsoft SharePoint Subscription Edition Preview.

  5. Click Modify.

  6. If prompted by the User Account Control (UAC) consent dialog, click Yes to allow the Microsoft Setup Bootstrapper app to make changes to your device.

  7. In the Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Preview setup application, select Repair and then click Continue.

  8. After setup finishes repairing SharePoint, click Close to exit.

  9. If prompted to reboot your computer, click Yes to reboot.

  10. After the computer reboots, launch the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.

  11. Click Next.

  12. If prompted to automatically start or reset services, click Yes.

  13. In the Modify server farm Settings page, select Do not disconnect from this server farm and then click Next.

  14. If prompted whether to modify the SharePoint Central Administration web application settings, select No, this machine will continue to host the web site and then, click Next.

  15. Click Next to begin the repair operation.

  16. After the repair operation has finished, click Finish.

Repair on Windows Server Core

  1. Run SharePoint setup (setup.exe) from your C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\SERVER16\Server Setup Controller directory with the following parameters:

    • /config <config file> (Where <config file> is the path to your writable config.xml file)

    • /repair OSERVER

    "$env:CommonProgramFiles\Microsoft Shared\SERVER16\Server Setup Controller\setup.exe" /config "C:\SharePoint Files\config.xml" /repair OSERVER

  2. Once SharePoint setup has completed, reboot your test server.

  3. Run the following SharePoint PowerShell cmdlets with their appropriate parameters to repair the server in the farm.

    1. Update-SPFlightsConfigFile -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\16\CONFIG\SPFlightRawConfig.json"
    2. Install-SPHelpCollection -All
    3. Initialize-SPResourceSecurity
    4. Install-SPService
    5. Install-SPFeature -AllExistingFeatures
    6. New-SPCentralAdministration (If hosting the Central Administration site on this server)
    7. Install-SPApplicationContent

    Note

    You can also use the PSCONFIG.EXE command line tool or the PSConfigUI.exe GUI tool. However, PSConfigUI.exe will crash on Windows Server Core if it needs to display a summary of error messages at the end of the sequence due to a dependency on HTML rendering components.