Greetings - I am working on getting sharepoint set up and I ran into an issue that has me puzzled.
When I attempt to set up the Secure Service Store I get a spinning wheel with the "This Should not take long" message. It just sits there spinning away (for 40 minutes before I stopped it). There are no errors I can find in the event log nor are there any errors I can see in the SharePoint error log). I literally get the spinning wheel of death.
Now, I know this is likely a permissions issue - the users and software were set up and installed respectively prior to my working on this install.
I also know that the process is not getting to the point of setting up the secure store database in sql server. I do not see it being created while the process is running.
I do know that there are still some issues as I can get an "object set with not reference" error when I select "Set Up Managed Accounts" from central admin.
Should I punt on this installation and start over? or is this an easy fix? any guidance would be appreciated.