Azure AD sync will not start

Question

I get the following error:
Windows could not start the Microsoft Azure AD Sync service on local computer.
Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Paul

Answer 1

Hello,
in my case, it was MSVC++ missing runtime.

Go to : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin\
Run : miiserver.exe
If you have an error message with missing MSVCRxxxx.dll then you have to download an install VC++ 12 from here :
https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

That's surprising that VC++ 14 is not supported.

Answer 2

Hello @Paul Speirs ,

Thanks for reaching out.

Could you please confirm windows server OS and Azure AD connect version that you are using? also hope you might have tried steps which are mentioned here, if not then I would recommend you to try out and let us know out.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 3

Thanks for the tip. That was the solution to the long-sought error!