SharePoint 2016 – Resolved issue : IIS sites are not created on one WFE in farm

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Today new issue and solution 🙂

Background : We have migration project going on. We are migrating SharePoint 2013 application to SharePoint 2016 using content database attachment method. One of the step is creating web applications on destination server, i.e on our SharePoint 2016 server.

SharePoint 2016 Farm details : We have small farm

• 2 WFEs
• Application Server
• DB Server

Issue : On one of the WFE web applications are created but respective IIS sites are not created

Cause :

• We have verified SharePoint Administration Service – started
• SharePoint Timer Service – started
• After bit googling we found that on respective WFE service “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application” is not started

Solution :

• We just started this service on respective WFE
• Wait for some time and we could see IIS sites are provisioned
• But found that – status of service “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application” is “starting” for long time. Restarted the IIS but no luck 🙁
• Finally restarted the WFE – and status changed to “Started” mode 🙂
• In case sometime status of service is still in “Starting” mode then execute the following CMDLET in SharePoint 2016 Management Shell

stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype spwebservice

What is “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application” Service ?

• This server provides web server functionality
• This is the service which hosts our web applications in IIS
• It should started by default on each web front server
• This service should be started on all web front servers, batch-processing servers
• This service should also be started on Distributed cache and Request management servers if those are separately implemented
• Do not start this service on Application servers. If started please stop otherwise it will provision IIS sites for our web applications

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