Hi,

I am trying to install SharePoint 2013 with Service Pack 1. I successfully installed the prerequisites and the SharePoint components.

But when I try to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard for the first time, it fails on step 5 with the following exception:

04/28/2015 13:22:54  9  ERR                            Failed to register SharePoint services.
An exception of type System.InvalidOperationException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Failed to load or format string Id ManagementUI_ExcelCalculationService_FriendlyName for culture en-US: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.localhost:5555, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly reqAssembly, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost.CreateHost(String assemblyName, String className)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost.CreateHost()
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost..cctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.StringManager.GetStringInternal(StringId id, EncodingType encodingType, String resourcePath, Boolean isServiceHost, Object[] args)
System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to load or format string Id ManagementUI_ExcelCalculationService_FriendlyName for culture en-US: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.localhost:5555, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly reqAssembly, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost.CreateHost(String assemblyName, String className)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost.CreateHost()
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost..cctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.StringManager.GetStringInternal(StringId id, EncodingType encodingType, String resourcePath, Boolean isServiceHost, Object[] args) ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.localhost:5555, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly reqAssembly, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost.CreateHost(String assemblyName, String className)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost.CreateHost()
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerHost..cctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.StringManager.GetStringInternal(StringId id, EncodingType encodingType, String resourcePath, Boolean isServiceHost, Object[] args)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.StringManager.GetStringInternal(StringId id, EncodingType encodingType, String resourcePath, Boolean isServiceHost, Object[] args)
   at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.StringManager.GetString(StringId id, EncodingType encodingType, Object[] args)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServiceInConfigDB(Boolean provisionTheServiceToo, String serviceRegistryKeyName)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServices(Boolean provisionTheServicesToo)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.Run()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

This is really strange:

Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.localhost:5555

I've never seen that before, it should just be the assembly name (Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server). Any chance you've installed Excel client on this machine?

This got resolved by downloading a different Image from MSDN. I am not sure if the Image I initially downloaded from MSDN was corrupted or what the actual issue was.