Farm Solution Deployment stuck with "Deploying scheduled at..."

Question

I have added a solution (.WSP) file with Add-SPSolution, and then using Install-SPSolution to force deployment (I had a separate problem using the "Deploy solution" in Central Admin).

I am left with the message, "Deploying scheduled at..." and nothing seems to happen, even after an hour or more.

There have been other posts desribing this that i have read, but they all seem to revolve around restarting the SharePoint 2010 Timer service (with one or two commenters saying that this did not help them).  I have restarted the service, and have also done an IISRESET, but to no avail.

I checked the Timer Job definitions, and a once-off job definition is created to deploy the solution.  But, it is never run (not even to fail).

I would appreciate any suggestions as to what to do to investigate or solve this problem.

Answer 1

Check all servers to make sure that SharePoint Web Services System application pool is up and running.

Thanks

Guru

Answer 2

Hello,

Check if the timer job is running properly across all the sharepoint servers.

Regards,

SSm

Answer 3

I was referring to the application pool in IIS.

Answer 4

The solution is to use good old STSADM (-o deploysolution)  to deploy the solution, using the -Force AND the -Local switches.  the PowerShell command (Install-SPSolution) has only the -Force, but not he -Local switch.