Hi, I was expecting the psconfig wizard to run during language installs, I ran it just to see it go through cleanly.... it didn't I got this error... Entering function SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.TryGetIsSiteProvisioned 12/02/2009 12:08:13 11 INF Retrieved the content service and content service instance, now enum the web applications to see if there is a match with template SRCHCENTERLITE 12/02/2009 12:08:13 11 INF Site with uri http://win-lbwmiixm13y:8805/, port 8805 was found 12/02/2009 12:08:14 11 ERR Task evalprovision has failed with an unknown exception 12/02/2009 12:08:14 11 ERR Exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleUnauthorizedAccessException(UnauthorizedAccessException ex) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.OpenWeb(String bstrUrl, String& pbstrServerRelativeUrl, String& pbstrTitle, String& pbstrDescription, Guid& pguidID, String& pbstrRequestAccessEmail, UInt32& pwebVersion, Guid& pguidScopeId, UInt32& pnAuthorID, UInt32& pnLanguage, UInt32& pnLocale, UInt16& pnTimeZone, Boolean& bTime24, Int16& pnCollation, UInt32& pnCollationLCID, Int16& pnCalendarType, Int16& pnAdjustHijriDays, Int16& pnAltCalendarType, Boolean& pbShowWeeks, Int16& pnFirstWeekOfYear, UInt32& pnFirstDayOfWeek, Int16& pnWorkDays, Int16& pnWorkDayStartHour, Int16& pnWorkDayEndHour, Int16& pnMeetingCount, Int32& plFlags, Boolean& bConnectedToPortal, String& pbstrPortalUrl, String& pbstrPortalName, Int32& plWebTemplateId, Int16& pnProvisionConfig, String& pbstrDefaultTheme, String& pbstrDefaultThemeCSSUrl, String& pbstrAlternateCSSUrl, String& pbstrCustomizedCssFileList, String& pbstrCustomJSUrl, String& pbstrAlternateHeaderUrl, String& pbstrMasterUrl, String& pbstrCustomMasterUrl, String& pbstrSiteLogoUrl, String& pbstrSiteLogoDescription, Object& pvarUser, Boolean& pvarIsAuditor, UInt64& ppermMask, Boolean& bUserIsSiteAdmin, Boolean& bHasUniquePerm, Guid& pguidUserInfoListID, Guid& pguidUniqueNavParent, Int32& plSiteFlags, DateTime& pdtLastContentChange, DateTime& pdtLastSecurityChange, String& pbstrWelcomePage) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.InitWeb() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.get_WebTemplate() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.TryGetIsSiteProvisioned(String template, String relativePath, Nullable`1 port, SPSite& provisionedSite, SPWeb& provisionedWeb, Uri& provisionedUri) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEvaluatorModeProvisioner.IsProvisioned() at Microsoft.Office.Server.EvaluatorModeProvisioning.SharedEvaluatorModeProvisioner.IsProvisioned() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEvaluatorModeProvisioner.Provision() at Microsoft.Office.Server.EvaluatorModeProvisioning.SharedEvaluatorModeProvisioner.Provision() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServerEvaluatorModeProvisioner.Provision() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.EvalModeProvisionTask.EvalProvision() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.EvalModeProvisionTask.Run() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask() I then checked then took a snapshop, deleted the site and rerun the wizard and it worked. I then restored the snapshot and took a closer look at the app, I checked the Manage Content Databases in Central Admin since I know the Choose Search Server is set there. I set it wondering if that would fix it and it didn't. Not sure how I can get past this.... suspecting the default crawler account is not set.... Nope, tried that and it still errored. I've narrowed it down to the one website, nothing unusual, standard site, has a couple of 40Templates installed on it, document library, subsite, helpdesk. I backed it up, deleted it and then ran Psconfig and it went straight through. As a test I restored the site, ran psconfig -cmd setup and it failed again. For now I've deleted the site so I can installed some template languages, must be a real bug. Can anyone explain what that step 8 is doing? I have a backup VM so I can test as required :)

Any luck with this? I'm facing the same issue with SP Server 2010 RTM. Clean install, ran into Forefront Identity Sync service not starting, reinstalled, ran config and hit this error during the same step. Not sure what's null or where but the search does appear to be rather flakey. T.