Wednesday, February 1, 2012

SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7– Failed to create the configuration database

Installed SharePoint 2010 Foundation on my Windows 7 local machine. Once the installation completed, the configuration wizard launched, reached step 2 (creating the configuration database), and halted with the following error message.



If you used a domain account for the setup and as you are not connected to the domain. Reconnected to the network, deleted the configuration database (partially created), and re-ran the wizard, and it completed successfully.