Created Unassigned: Site Collection Creation Failure [20718]

Hi Peeps,

I'm trying to install 2013 on Windows 2012 and all is ok until the portal site collection creation is attempted which always fails with the error below.

I've cut down the xml file to try just installing the basics, but still no joy, and if I manually try & create site collections directly, using mine & the service accounts, there are no issues...

Any Ideas, pointers ??

Thanks in advance

Console Error Message:


- Creating web applications...
- Creating Web App "Portal"
- Setting up managed paths for "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01:80"
- Setting up explicit managed path "help" at "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01:80" and HNSCs...
- Done setting up managed paths at "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01:80"
- Granting i:0#.w|SP13\adm_w128898 Full Control to http://sp13-ops-sbe-01/...
--------------------------------------------------------------
- Applying object cache accounts to "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01:80"...
- Granting i:0#.w|sp13\svc_sp_cachesu Full Control to http://sp13-ops-sbe-01/...
- Granting i:0#.w|sp13\svc_sp_cachesr Full Read to http://sp13-ops-sbe-01/...
- Done applying object cache accounts to "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01:80"
- Checking for Site Collection "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01"...
- Creating Site Collection "http://SP13-OPS-SBE-01"...
--------------------------------------------------------------
- Script halted!


Exception : System.UnauthorizedAccessException:
<nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>Access denied.
at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleUnauthorizedAccessException(UnauthorizedAccessException ex)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateSite(Guid gApplicationId, String bstrUrl,
Int32 lZone, Guid gSiteId, Guid gDatabaseId, String bstrDatabaseServer, String
bstrDatabaseName, String bstrDatabaseUsername, String bstrDatabasePassword, String bstrTitle,
String bstrDescription, UInt32 nLCID, String bstrOwnerLogin, String bstrOwnerUserKey, String
bstrOwnerName, String bstrOwnerEmail, String bstrSecondaryContactLogin, String
bstrSecondaryContactUserKey, String bstrSecondaryContactName, String
bstrSecondaryContactEmail, Boolean bADAccountMode, Boolean bHostHeaderIsSiteName, Int32
iDatabaseVersionMajor, Int32 iDatabaseVersionMinor, Int32 iDatabaseVersionBuild, Int32
iDatabaseVersionRevision, String bstrSiteSchemaVersion)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteCollection.Add(SPContentDatabase database,
SPSiteSubscription siteSubscription, String siteUrl, String title, String description, UInt32
nLCID, Int32 compatibilityLevel, String webTemplate, String ownerLogin, String ownerName,
String ownerEmail, String secondaryContactLogin, String secondaryContactName, String
secondaryContactEmail, String quotaTemplate, String sscRootWebUrl, Boolean
useHostHeaderAsSiteName, Boolean overrideCompatibilityRestriction)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletNewSite.CreateDataObject()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPNewCmdletBase`1.InternalProcessRecord()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdlet.ProcessRecord()
TargetObject : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletNewSite
CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...SPCmdletNewSite:SPCmdletNewSite) [New-SPSite],
UnauthorizedAccessException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletNewSite
ErrorDetails :
InvocationInfo : System.Management.Automation.InvocationInfo
ScriptStackTrace : at CreateWebApp, \\sp13-ops-sbe-01\SPInstall\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerFunctions.ps1:
line 2610
at CreateWebApplications,
\\sp13-ops-sbe-01\SPInstall\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerFunctions.ps1: line 2420
at Setup-Farm, \\sp13-ops-sbe-01\SPInstall\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerMain.ps1: line 201
at <ScriptBlock>, \\sp13-ops-sbe-01\SPInstall\AutoSPInstaller\AutoSPInstallerMain.ps1: line 373
at <ScriptBlock>, <No file>: line 1
PipelineIterationInfo : {}
PSMessageDetails :



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| Automated SP2013 install script |
| Started on: 10/02/2014 08:31:18 |
| Aborted: 10/02/2014 08:43:25 |
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