Backendstore database creation fails lync 2013

Question

Backendstore database creation fails at step 2 installing lync components. I can physically watch the database appear then disappear in the csdata/backendstore/rtc/dbpath. File rtcxds.mdf. I'm running server 2012 and SQL 2012 express. Installing standard
edition. I have uninstalled everything 3x and keep erroring out at this point. Firewall is also off. My topology also publishes without error. Here is the error Feature: BackendStore 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └ SQL Instance: zeus.athena.local\rtc 1/27/2013 3:38:52
PM └ Collocated: True 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └ Found "RTCHSUniversalServices": True 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └ Found "RTCUniversalServerAdmins": True 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └ Found "RTCHSUniversalServices": True 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └
Found "RTCHSUniversalServices": True 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └ Found "RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins": True 1/27/2013 3:38:52 PM └ InstallDatabaseInternalFailure: An internal error has occurred while trying to create or update the database. 1/27/2013
3:48:53 PM Error └ Error: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. ▼ Details └ Type: SqlException └ ▼ Stack Trace └ at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ConnectionManager.ExecuteTSql(ExecuteTSqlAction
action, Object execObject, DataSet fillDataSet, Boolean catchException) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection.ExecuteNonQuery(String sqlCommand, ExecutionTypes executionType) └ ▼ Additional Details └ Error: The wait operation timed out
▼ Details └ Type: Win32Exception └ ► Stack Trace └ Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I am seeing exactly the same issue when I tried to setup lync server 2013 in Azure, here is what I did:
1. Created a domain controller (Active Direcotry Forest) on Windows Server 2008 R2 following instructions at
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/networking/active-directory-forest/
3. Created another Virtual machine  from Azure management portal using Windows 2012 Data Center and joined it to the local  domain
4. Logged into the 2012 server as domain administrator and tried to setup a standalone front end Lync Server following step to step instructions at
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2012/07/step-by-step-installing-lync-server.html
5. Everything goes on very well before "Step2 Setup Lync Server components (will install Speechfiles, etc) "
The error messages are:
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Attaching database failed because one of the files not found. The database will be created.
State of database rtcxds is DbState_DoesNotExist.
Creating database rtcxds from scratch. Data File Path = c:\CsData\BackendStore\rtc\DbPath, Log File Path= c:\CsData\BackendStore\rtc\LogPath.
Clean installing database rtcxds.
Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
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I have read all of the suggestions in the following pages and many other sites, tried most of them but no luck:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lyncserverpreview/thread/90343e69-9f43-4f11-8763-b60c12ba0c21
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lyncdeploy/thread/f8d960d3-eaea-442a-8a03-da8b38ca7e1a
Thanks in advance!