Windows Service Bus 1.1 configuration hangs

Question

Trying to configure Windows Service Bus on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.

Both the Wizard and power shell stops on "Generating certificate" and never gets any further. No errors.

Windows PowerShell
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 Running New-SBFarm.
    Created and configured Service Bus gateway database.

VERBOSE: [03.01.2015 15:23:28]: Created and configured Service Bus farm
management database.
VERBOSE: [03.01.2015 15:23:38]: Created and configured Service Bus gateway
database.
VERBOSE: [03.01.2015 15:23:38]: Configuration added to farm management
database.
VERBOSE: [03.01.2015 15:23:38]: Generating Certificate.

The SbGatewayDatabase and SbManagementDB databases have been created. But that's all. Any ideas on how to proceed or get more details on what the problem is?

There are no errors in the event log as I can see. Note that this server is also hosting SQL server as well as the "active directory" role being a "Essentials" server. — Paaland
do you have RabbitMQ or any other AQMP enabled services running? — BozoJoe

JGood JGood · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-09T17:07:19

I was getting the same error as you. No matter what I tried I could not get the default to work, my services kept hanging at certificate generation. Here are my steps that finally worked.

Exit the hanging configuration wizard.
Use SelfSSL to generate your own certificate
Use SQL Management Studio to delete out the recent failed install
Enter the Service Bus Config wizard again and do a custom install
Remove check for "automatically generate certificate" and then select yours from the list.

Use other settings as planned as you had planned before.

Windows Service Bus 1.1 configuration hangs

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