User Profile Service stuck on starting

This is very frustrating when this happens. I had to fix an environment where somebody had not assigned the correct permissions initially and had caused all sorts of issues.

In this instance, the only way I could get the service to change to a status of "stop" was to use PowerShell.


The command is as follows:

Find the GUID of the Profile Synchronization Service application using :

get-spserviceinstance .

It should show the UPS in a status of ‘provisioning’.

Next, type in:

stop-spserviceinstance [GUID] to stop the faulty service.