User Profile Synchronization Service Gets Stuck on Starting
Open up Powershell on your SharePoint Server and type in the following command Get-spserviceinstance Stop-spserviceinstance <GUID> ow go back into Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Service Applications and delete the User Profile Service Application. Restart your server and set up the User Profile Service Application again. OR Steps: 1. stsadm -o enumservices > c:\ services.txt – Those gave me a list of services and showed me what the name of the service I need to stop is. 2. stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype “Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ProfileSynchronizationService, Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c” -servicename FIMSynchronizationService The second command stopped the service.