{"id":1365,"date":"2014-12-03T06:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T06:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:39:50","slug":"ps-config-fails-with-the-exclusive-inplace-upgrader-timer-job-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2014\/12\/03\/ps-config-fails-with-the-exclusive-inplace-upgrader-timer-job-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"PS Config fails with &#8220;The exclusive inplace upgrader timer job failed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working with a client recently and after running some OS updates on their SharePoint servers, I tried to run the Product Config wizard (PSconfig).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The command I was running was as follows.<\/p>\n<pre><span lang=\"EN-US\">PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, at one point (later in the sequence &#8211; it began successfully and ran for a min or two) the process failed with the following error message.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusive inplace upgrader timer job failed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was able to find a proposed sequence of how to resolve the issue in this technet forum below.\u00a0 However, this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">did not<\/span> work for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/94a8bb64-e0ea-493f-8e29-01347b1fc6c7\/psconfig-fails-failed-to-upgrade-sharepoint-products\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/94a8bb64-e0ea-493f-8e29-01347b1fc6c7\/psconfig-fails-failed-to-upgrade-sharepoint-products<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;background-color: yellow\">\u00a0(From the forum &#8211; this <b>didn&#8217;t<\/b> work for me)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had the same issue and called Microsoft support. \u00a0Here is the fix:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop the &#8220;SharePoint 2010 Timer&#8221; service<\/li>\n<li>Delete ONLY the xml files from C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\SharePoint\\Config\\216f8013-b78b-4e5b-8631-3a5f4c7277e8<\/li>\n<li>Note: Do NOT delete the cache.ini file in this folder<\/li>\n<li>Edit cache.ini and change to &#8220;1&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Start &#8220;SharePoint 2010 Timer&#8221; service<\/li>\n<li>Run psconfig again:\n<pre>PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What finally resolved the issue for me, or at least allowed me to get the psconfig to run successfully to completion (NOTE: I believe there are still some ghosts in the system that need to be busted) was this sequence of meticulously timed steps:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;background-color: white\">\u00a0But what really worked was this\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I once again ran the command<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">in the \u201cBin\u201d Folder running as an administrator console (PowerShell) session.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Next, I opened up a second Administrator PowerShell session<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The moment I saw the status &#8220;Configuration task 5 of 6 is executed&#8221; (in the first console) I start to run the following command in the second console session:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">net start SPTraceV4 ; net start SPWriterV4 ; net start SPAdminV4 ; net start SPTimerV4<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>After that the configuration task finished successfully.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">[NOTE: You either must run each of those on a separate line in PowerShell or use the semi-colon separated version]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hopefully if you run into this yourself, this will allow you to rectify the issue in a timely fashion.\u00a0 Note, this may behavior may be indicative of something more problematic wrong with your farm and\/or timer service, but at least you&#8217;ll have central admin back after this, and can further debug from there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working with a client recently and after running some OS updates on their SharePoint servers, I tried to run the Product Config wizard (PSconfig). &nbsp; The command I was running was as follows. 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