Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
- You install Description of the security update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition: March 12, 2024 (KB5002564).
- You have a SharePoint farm that contains a certificate that's managed by the Certificate Management feature.
- You try to add an additional server to the farm.
In this scenario, you receive the following error message:
Note
An exception of type System.InvalidOperationException was thrown. Additional exception information: This operation uses the SharePoint Administration service (spadminv4), which could not be contacted. If the service is stopped or disabled, start it and try the operation again.
Cause
The KB 5002564 security update changed the Certificate Management feature to always use the SharePoint Timer Service (SPTimerv4) to deploy certificates to the servers in the SharePoint farm. However, when the Certificate Management feature tries to deploy certificates to a server that is being added to the SharePoint farm, the SharePoint Timer Service isn't available. Therefore, the server isn't added to the farm.
Resolution
To fix this issue, install Description of the security update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition: May 14, 2024 (KB5002599).