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Retracting: The deployment of the farm solution's components is reversed

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How do I retract a solution when Uninstall-SPSolution does nothing?

I'm trying to retract a solution. I tried both ways: Central Administration → System Settings → Manage farm solutions → example.wsp → Retract Solution. The status indicates "Retracting(scheduled ...
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Retract/Remove Solution - SharePoint 2010

How can I manually retract a solution, which is installed to a farm, using the SharePoint central administration interface?
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Solution cannot be deserialized because it does not have a public default constructor

I am currently trying to deploy a timer job to my SharePoint site. for the first deployment I forgot to implement a public default constructor for the Timer Job Class. And now I am stuck because I ...
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SharePoint always retracts my Add-In

Everytime I deploy my custom Add-In to my SharePoint-Server it retracts and unistalls all the data including lists and stuff (in which I always need to fill in a bunch of data). SharePoint even ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Solution struck on Retracting

I have solution installed in my solution store. I am trying to retract the solution but is stuck on "Retracting". Solution Tried : 1 . Restart Timer Job services But when i am trying to add ...
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unable to retract SharePoint solutions

I am having trouble retracting solutions in SharePoint 2007. I used both the retract solution button and the stsadm command in command line. The timer job was created in both instances, but it never ...
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Wait for retraction of each WSP before proceeding with the next in PowerShell

I am trying to create a PowerShell script for Adding and Deploying WSPs. I have multiple WSPs. Initially, I have to Retract and Remove existing WSPs, before I Add and Deploy them. As we know, the ...
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My SharePoint server 2013, is not running any of the “Timer Jobs”

I have SharePoint 2013 server with SP1. And I have noted that all the Timer jobs are not running, for example inside the Gradual Site Delete, it show last run as “N/A”, even I have try to run it ...
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Ghost SharePoint solutions must die

We are developing a custom claims provider. In order to aid in debugging I write to a log file. I have little experience with SharePoint but I found and follow several different guides. Essentially,...
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Difference between Retract solution and Remove solution in SharePoint

In Central Administration if I go to "System Settings > Manage farm solutions" I can see my deployed solutions (via Visual Studio). Clicking on any of my deployed solution takes me to "Solution ...
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After retracting a solution the Sharepoint 2010 farm displays error

"The DataSourceID of 'TopNavigationMenuV4' must be the ID of a control of type IHierarchicalDataSource. A control with ID 'topSiteMap' could not be found."
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How can I prevent retracting of my listinstance each new deployment from Visual Studio?

I am using sp2013 and vs2013. I have a solution with some list instances and contenttypes. Every time I do a deployment from Visual Studio the existing listinstance will be retracted and I lost my ...
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How to retract unretractable solution

Looks like I made a pretty big mistake when doing some testing with a sample sharepoint project. Ironically, I was trying to spike up a unit testable solution, without writing many of the tests first. ...
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Why custom lists, fields, contenttypes and views stay exist after retracting wsp

I have built a WSP in Visual Studio 2010 for my Sharepoint 2010 portal. In VS I have created some custom lists, fields, content types and views. When I deploy it I see some custom lists, fields, ...
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STSADM Denied File Access for Solution Retraction

I'm trying to retract an existing solution for my web app on MOSS 2007. I'm failing the retraction because on the solution properties page on Central Admin 3.0 while the stsadm react job is running ...
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After retracting webpart solution webparts still showing up

I retract a webpart solution that was deployed via Visual Studio. Then when i edit a page for some reason the Custom category + the webparts are still being listed when i try to insert a webpart. ...
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Accidently retracted two solutions, but timer is not running

I've accidently retracted two solutions from the farm in WSS3 but luckily the timer is not running so the jobs did not run. Now when I go to Solution Management I see "Error" for their deployment ...
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Visual Studio Retract - Install features script

when Visual Studio launch a Sharepoint Project does some steps, when debug ends does a retract to restore the system status. Now I'm developing an application based on content type.. When I deploy ...
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Retract solution in sharepoint 2010

How to retract a sharepoint solution without having remaining list intances, workflows, data etc?
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List Features that are part of a Solution Package

As part of a migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, I am cleaning up old features that are no longer used and/or would have compatibility issues with the upgrade - mainly the old FAB40 templates. To ...
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Problem retracting a Sharepoint 2010 Foundation solution

I am retracting a globally deployed solution via Central Administration. Here is the info Name: familycareprl.wsp Type: Core Solution Contains Web Application Resource: No Contains Global ...
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Resources are deleted during solution retraction

I have a solution deployed in several web applications. If I retract it from one of them, resources from the /wpresources/ folder will be deleted, although there are web applications that still need ...
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List instance not working after solution retraction

I have a project with a Content Type A list definition based on the Content Type A list instance When I deploy this solution, it all works fine. To my knowledge, when this solution is retracted, ...
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Sharepoint solution failing to retract

When I try to retract solution (via Central Administration or using stsadm), the solution stays in the Retracting state. I found a very similar question on Stack Overflow, but the services 'Windows ...
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would this retract a solution from only one server in a farm?

I have a webpart that failed on one web server and works fine on another. The issue seems to be related to the .DLL on the failing web server. If i use the command stsadm -o retractsolution and ...
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Order the features are retracted in a solution (VSeWSS1.3)

I am forced, against my will and all common sense, to turn my series of WSP Builder solutions into VSeWSS 1.3. So far, i have encountered, conquered and totally knocked down every illogical, ...