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PowerPivot ASSPIInstallFarmAction Hang

11 Mar 2011 | SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot

3/23 - Update - Please see this post for a proper workaround

If PowerPivot is stuck on the ASSPIInstallFarmAction installation step, see if STSADM.exe is currently running. Also check C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\<date>\Detail.txt. If the last line is:

<date_time> AS: Running Script: & "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN\psconfig.exe" -cmd services -install

Manually deploy powerpivotfarm.wsp globally and powerpivotwebapp.wsp to the Central Administration site. Terminate STSADM from Task Manager. The PowerPivot installation will see that the solutions have already been deployed and will continue with the installation.. PowerPivot should finish successfully.

Trevor Seward is a Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP who specializes in SharePoint Server administration, hybrid scenarios, and SharePoint Online. He has been working with SharePoint for 16 years from SharePoint 2003 on up, managing environments with terabytes of content for 150,000+ user organizations. Trevor is an author of Deploying SharePoint 2016 and Deploying SharePoint 2019. You can find him on Twitter and in /r/sharepoint.