SharePoint 2013 – User Profile Synchronization Service not starting

January 22, 2015 · by · in SharePoint 2013, Troubleshooting

While trying to start the User Profile Synchronization Service the status showed as Starting for about a minute then went straight back to Stopped.  The ULS log, filtered by ‘User Profiles’ category, contained the following entries: SetupFIMBuildSpecificRegistryKeys: Exception trying to…