{"id":1459,"date":"2015-04-29T00:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T00:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:39:45","slug":"how-to-resolve-failures-in-the-sharepoint-product-config-psconfig-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2015\/04\/29\/how-to-resolve-failures-in-the-sharepoint-product-config-psconfig-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Resolve Failures in the SharePoint Product Config (psconfig) Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night recently I was trying to install a whack load of new SharePoint updates, and I was having major pains trying to get the psconfig tool to run (both the UI tool and the command line version). I finally came up with a series of steps that works for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Things I was encountering included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The psconfig wizard was freezing at 10% in the upgrade (you need the &#8220;-wait&#8221; switch in your psconfig \u2013 as seen in step 5)<\/li>\n<li>The psconfig wizard would fail with an SPUpdatedConcurrencyException error (this is included in steps 3 and 4 below)<\/li>\n<li>I was getting an EndpointNotFoundException error (the net stop\/start steps needed &#8220;w3svc&#8221; in there as well \u2013 as seen in steps 1 and 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How I fixed our SharePoint farm upgrade woes (Note: run all PowerShell (PS) commands in an elevated PowerShell window &#8211; *need 2 pre-opened windows*)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>Turn off all the following services (you can do this in your first PowerShell window)<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">net stop SPTraceV4; net stop SPWriterV4; net stop SPAdminV4; net stop SPTimerV4; net stop w3svc<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Manually stop both search services (in the services GUI on the SP server) \u2013 Note: SP 2010 only has 1 Search Service.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Run the following command in your second PowerShell window<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">stsadm -o setproperty -pn command-line-upgrade-running -pv No<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Flush the Config Cache <a href=\"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/2013\/05\/21\/clearing-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache\/\">follow this blog post<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Run the following PowerShell in your second PowerShell window<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>As soon as it reaches step #3 in the upgrade process, in the first elevated PS window, run the following PS<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\">net start SPTraceV4; net start SPWriterV4; net start SPAdminV4; net start SPTimerV4; net start w3svc<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Quickly manually start the two search services (in the Services GUI on the SP Server)<\/li>\n<li>The upgrade process should complete successfully after this<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other things you may have to do (don&#8217;t do these during the procedure \u2013 if the above doesn&#8217;t work, try these afterwards and repeat the procedure above):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restart IIS or Reboot the server<\/li>\n<li>Deal with SQL exception 297 (if it appears) in the event log <a href=\"https:\/\/yiengly.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/01\/sharepoint-2010-unknown-sql-exception-297-error\/\">https:\/\/yiengly.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/01\/sharepoint-2010-unknown-sql-exception-297-error\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Grant access to DOMAIN\\SERVERNAME$ and<\/div>\n<p><em>NT AUTHORITY\\Network Service (sysadmin?) <\/em>in SQL Server <a href=\"http:\/\/dba.stackexchange.com\/questions\/39094\/login-failed-for-domain-servername-when-trying-to-create-a-new-sql-server-repor\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/dba.stackexchange.com\/questions\/39094\/login-failed-for-domain-servername-when-trying-to-create-a-new-sql-server-repor<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The steps above were a combination of many of the following blog posts (no single post seemed to quite do what I needed);<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alstechtips.blogspot.ca\/2015\/03\/sharepoint-2013-configuration-failed.html\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/alstechtips.blogspot.ca\/2015\/03\/sharepoint-2013-configuration-failed.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.stackexchange.com\/questions\/118287\/sharepoint-configuration-wizard-will-raise-microsoft-sharepoint-postsetupconfigu\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/sharepoint.stackexchange.com\/questions\/118287\/sharepoint-configuration-wizard-will-raise-microsoft-sharepoint-postsetupconfigu<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herlitz.nu\/2014\/10\/30\/psconfig-stuck-at-10\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/www.herlitz.nu\/2014\/10\/30\/psconfig-stuck-at-10<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Amazingly this page had everything I encountered, but again, no single post solved the whole thing: <a href=\"http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/tag\/psconfig\/\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/tag\/psconfig\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/system-servicemodel-endpointnotfoundexception-psconfig-sharepoint-20102013\/\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/system-servicemodel-endpointnotfoundexception-psconfig-sharepoint-20102013\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/an-update-conflict-has-occurred-and-you-must-re-try-this-action-psconfig-error-sharepoint-20102013\/\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/an-update-conflict-has-occurred-and-you-must-re-try-this-action-psconfig-error-sharepoint-20102013\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/psconfig-error-at-step-3-of-4-cannot-upgrade-sharepoint-database\/\"><span style=\"color: blue;text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/sharepointviews.com\/psconfig-error-at-step-3-of-4-cannot-upgrade-sharepoint-database\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night recently I was trying to install a whack load of new SharePoint updates, and I was having major pains trying to get the psconfig tool to run (both the UI tool and the command line version). 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