Showing posts with label SharePoint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

SharePoint Database Configuration Failed

Query :


I changed the DNS IP today and was unable to connect to SharePoint database. The error that i am getting is "Failed to connect to the configuration database"


Answer :
There can be many factors to cause this issue. You can read about this issue at "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823287/en-us". 


One more issue can be the change of the IP of your DNS Server. In order to resolve most of the issues you can create a new database using the following command,


  "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\PSCONFIG.EXE" -cmd configdb -create -database