thanks for posting this, most useful, especially detailing the steps.

I hit this error (on a server restart, not an install) and added the ServicesPipeTimeout DWORD, in my case SSRS then started without the reboot, so worth giving it a try before the reboot if you hit this.

Don't think it was a load issue because no-one was connected to the server at all at the time.

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