Farm: Two Servers (1 WFE & 1 ADMIN)
Issue:
The following error I got when applied DEC 2011 CU over an existing Oct 2011 CU
The following error I got when applied DEC 2011 CU directly in a new fresh environment.
Solutions:
Summary:
To resolve those mentioned errors, use the latest CU updates i.e. Feb 2011 CU for SharePoint/Project Server 2010. Applying the latest patch in the new fresh environment fixed the error and SharePoint Configuration was successfully completed, however, applying on the old existing environments that were previously patched with Oct 2011 CU updates, required to follow a few extra steps to get SharePoint Wizard completely successful.
Please keep in mind that we have no issues with Oct 2011 CU but looks like Dec 2011 CU got some issues.
I will show below all the steps in detail that worked for me in multiple environments with successful SharePoint wizard completion message.
Scenario # 1: Installed SharePoint/Project Server 2010 with DEC 2011 CU with the Configuration wizard was failed with an error message in the log file mentioned in FIG C.
Steps:
This scenario was pretty straight forward with no error message after applying the latest Feb 2012 patch as mentioned below…
1- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of SharePoint 2010 on Admin Server
2- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of Project Server 2010 on Admin Server
3- Reboot the Admin server.
4- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of SharePoint 2010 on Admin Server
5- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of Project Server 2010 on Admin Server
6- Reboot the Admin server.
7- Run SharePoint Wizard on Admin server first with successfully completed result.
8- Run SharePoint Wizard on WFE server first with successfully completed result.
Scenario # 2: Installation of DEC 2011 CU patch on existing SharePoint/Project Server 2010 environments patched with OCT 2011 CU with the Configuration failure error message mentioned in FIG A & B.
Steps:
1- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of SharePoint 2010 on Admin Server
2- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of Project Server 2010 on Admin Server
3- Reboot the Admin server.
4- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of SharePoint 2010 on Admin Server
5- Installed Feb 2011 CU bits of Project Server 2010 on Admin Server
6- Reboot the Admin server.
7- Run SharePoint Wizard on Admin server first. It was completed around 46% and it gets failed.
8- Run PSConfig exe in command prompt (see the command below) but it is also failed with the exceptional error as shown below
Command:
psconfig -cmd upgrade -force -inplace b2b
Error:
9- Run SharePoint Wizard on WFE server. It was completed around 90% and it gets failed.
10- Run PSConfig exe in command prompt (see the command in step #8) but it is also failed with the same error mentioned in step # 8
11- Run SharePoint Wizard on WFE server again. This time it was completed successfully with 100%. It will give the following windows messages. Use the same settings and click Next to continue till getting the final successful message window
12- Run SharePoint Wizard on ADMIN server again. This time it was completed successfully with 100%. It will give the following windows messages. Use the same settings and click Next to continue till getting the final successful message window
