Cannot uninstall Language Pack 0 because it is not deployed

SharePoint 2013 is really a good product w.r.t. functionality and awesome GUI to work with! But today’s article is based on the error that I faced while updating the solution.

IMP NOTE:

If you find a different solution, please report it as a comment to this post. Be sure to double-verify it: undo your solution and verify that the problem comes back, then redo it and verify that the problem goes away.

Here is the error message:

Cannot uninstall Language Pack 0 because it is not deployed when attempting to uninstall-spsolution

One thing we always need to understand is the logic would be same for the functionality irrespective of which SharePoint version you are working!

What’s that funda? – Here we go:

If you are facing this error message then I would suggest checking the status of your solution in central administration. How to check this? Here are the details:

o   Central Administration

o   System Settings

o   Manage Farm Solutions

o   It will open the solution management

o   Here you can check the status of your solution

If your solution is showing updating, deploying or retracting status then first and top most check that you need to verify the status of your TIMER JOB across all WFE’s.  How to check this? – Here are the details:

o   Login to your web front end (WFE)

o   Start

o   Run

o   Type “services.msc” and hit enter

o   It will open the services console

o   Click on any service and press S

o   It will directly show you the SharePoint Services

o   Second service will be SharePoint Timer Service

o   Check the status across all your servers

Two outcomes will be there:

1.   Timer service will be stopped one of the server:

If this is the case then start the timer job on that specific server and check the results by executing the commands that you are using.

2.   Timer service is started on all the servers:

If this is the case then restart all the SharePoint Timer Services across all servers. Once this done then execute the commands that you are doing and check the results

Details notes:

Add-SPSolution

Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath c:\nameofyoursolution.wsp

Install-SPSolution

Install-SPSolution -Identity nameofyoursolution.wsp –GACDeployment

Uninstall-SPSolution

Uninstall-SPSolution -Identity nameofyoursolution.wsp

Remove-SPSolution

Remove-SPSolution -Identity nameofyoursolution.wsp

Update-SPSolution

Update-SPSolution -Identity nameofyoursolution.wsp -LiteralPath c:\nameofyoursolution.wsp -GACDeployment

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product Applies To:

o   SharePoint 2013

o   SharePoint 2010

o   SharePoint 2007

Move-SPSite: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object

Every day we face some strange issues in SharePoint, if it’s working before then why it suddenly stops working! Big question-hmm??

Today we are going to discuss one similar scenario and I am pretty much sure you will comes up with different resolution’s because this issue might vary from environment to environment so resolutions might be different.

Problem description:

One of our content database has already reached the 100GB mark so as per Microsoft recommendations, it’s better to move the site collections to new database as it might create some problems while doing backup and restore. 

So the plan to move some site collections from existing database to new database. For this purpose, we have created a new database by means of central administration.

One thing I wanted to clear that we are doing backup-restore activity, we are moving some heavy site collections between databases only.

In SharePoint 2010, we have an inbuilt command to move the site collections between databases, please refer the following:

Move-SPSite <http://ServerName/Sites/SiteName> -DestinationDatabase <DestinationContentDb>

So we make modifications as per our databases i.e. URL of the site collection and name of the destination database.

As soon as we hit enter, the PowerShell command throws an exception as mentioned below.

Error message:

Move-SPSite: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object

Troubleshooting done:

-Checked the status of site collection-whether it’s set to lock/read only?

-Checked the status of the database-whether it’s online/offline?

-Tried detaching the source and destination databases and reattached again but still no results

-Tried moving site collections to existing databases- this one works!

-Tried creating a site collection in newly created database- works!

-The site that we have just moved to existing DB- tried moving to the destination database (where we are facing to problem)- Failed!

-Tried creating a new database for different web application and performed the same operation- Failed!

-checked the health analyser again to verify for any new errors

-Found this error which we have neglected-Databases running in compatibility range, upgrade recommended.

<This is the main culprit>

Resolution:

We ran this command on the source database from which we were trying to move the site collections to destination database.

upgrade-contentdatabase -Name <> -Webapplication <>

Operation completed successfully.

Tried running the move-spsite command and executed successfully without any issues…

By this way we have overcome this error message but as I mentioned in the beginning resolution might vary from environment to environment so request you to please share if you have different resolution part from the above mentioned so that it would be beneficial to others as well.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know, I would be more than happy to help you as well resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product Applies To:

SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint Foundation 2010

SharePoint Server 2013

Add, Deploy, Remove and Delete Solutions in SharePoint 2010

What is solution package?

A solution package is a distribution package that delivers your custom SharePoint Server 2010 development work to the Web servers or the application servers in your server farm.

-Adding and Deploying Solutions in SharePoint 2010-

·         How to add solution package SharePoint 2010?

·         How to add a .WSP in SharePoint 2010?

Add solution with STSADM: stsadm.exe -o addsolution -filename yoursolutionpackage.wsp

Add solution with PowerShell: Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath <SolutionPath>

-Deploy Solution in SharePoint 2010-

·         Deploy Solution using Central Administration

·         Deploy Solution using stsadm.exe

·         Deploy Solution using PowerShell

Deploy Solution using Central Administration

·         Central Administration

·         System Settings

·         Manage farm solutions

·         Now click your solution from the list (for example, yoursolutionname.wsp).

·         Now click Deploy Solution and select the web application where you want to deploy the solution (example, http://sp-mach here), Click OK when you are done.

·         Click Deploy Solution

·         You are done with deployment.

Deploy Solution using STSADM.EXE

stsadm -o deploysolution -name yoursolutionpackagename.wsp -url http://sp-mach/ -local  -force

Here (-URL) means the web application where to deploy the solution.

Deploy Solution using PowerShell

Install-SPSolution -Identity <SolutionName> -WebApplication <URLname>

§  <SolutionName> is the name of the solution.

§  <URLname> is the URL of the Web application to which you want to deploy the imported solution.

Uninstallation and Retraction of a Solution in SharePoint 2010

Follow the steps for STSADM:

Open command prompt and navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN

Use the stsadm command = stsadm -o retractsolution -name solutionName.wsp -immediate

And then remove the wsp = stsadm -o deletesolution -name solutionName.wsp

Follow the steps for PowerShell:

Go to All Programs --Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products --SharePoint 2010 Management Shell --Run as administrator

Uninstall-SPSolution -identity solutionName.wsp

Remove-SPSolution -identity solutionName.wsp

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know, Thank you.