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After installing the current SharePoint 2013 preview build, I was greeted by "An unexpected error has occurred" message while trying to navigate to the Central Administration site. This post represents the steps I took to troubleshoot the problem and implement a least-privileges fix for it.

In this post I investigate the differences between the Backup-SPFarm and Backup-SPConfigurationDatabase cmdlets in the process of configuration-only backup in SharePoint 2010. I also extrapolate a bit on how the Backup-SPConfigurationDatabase may have come to be.

In this post, I discuss SharePoint 2010's new configuration-only backup and restore capabilities, how they work, and why they probably aren't going to remove the need for farm configuration documentation anytime soon.