AppFabric “Access is denied”
Applies to SharePoint 2016; not tested on other versions of SharePoint. Symptoms - CA Health Analyzer shows “ One of the cache hosts in the cluster is down ” and “ One or more services have started or stopped unexpectedly ” errors. - For the reported server on Health Analyzer, Distributed Cache is shown as “ Status: Online ” on PowerShell and “ Status: Started ” on CA’s “ Services on Server ” page. - AppFabric Caching Service is stopped on the reported server. When attempted to start, it gives “ Access is denied ”. It doesn’t leave any log entries for the failure in Application or Systems Event logs. - You verified that the password of the service account that runs the service is correct. Cause Missing value of connectionString in “ C:\Program Files\AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server\D...