Hello,
Background:
Recently we upgraded our 2012 SQL server from SP1 to SP2. This worked. Sadly the SQL SP2 upgrade failed on our SharePoint WFE and APP servers. The 'Reporting Services Add-in' failed to update. I tried uninstalling the add-in and reinstalling it from the SQL Server 2012 SP2 media, and that failed. Then I tried downloading the 'Reporting Services 2012 SP2 Add-in for SharePoint 2013' (rsSharePoint.msi) and tried the two tier install using https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905871(v=sql.110).aspx.
Msiexec.exe /i rsSharePoint.msi SKIPCA=1 and rsCustomAction.exe /I
which produced the above error.
rsSharePoint.msi log message:
06/18/2015 15:25:19 10 ERR Task applicationcontent has failed with an unknown exception
06/18/2015 15:25:19 10 ERR Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAspConfigurationFile.ApplyActionToXmlDocument(XmlDocument xdAction, XmlDocument xd, String sourceFileName, SupportedXmlDocutmentActions supportedActions)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAspConfigurationFile.MergeWebConfig(XmlDocument xdWebConfig, String fileMask)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService.ApplyApplicationContentToLocalServer()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ApplicationContentTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()
Event Viewer Error:
Failed to install the application content files.
An exception of type System.NullReferenceException was thrown. Additional exception information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAspConfigurationFile.ApplyActionToXmlDocument(XmlDocument xdAction, XmlDocument xd, String sourceFileName, SupportedXmlDocutmentActions supportedActions)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAspConfigurationFile.MergeWebConfig(XmlDocument xdWebConfig, String fileMask)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService.ApplyApplicationContentToLocalServer()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ApplicationContentTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()
I tried these things:
- I removed all comments <!-- --> from SharePoint web.config files
- I ran psconfig on both servers prior to the install
Please help!