Skip to main content

Questions tagged [psconfig]

PSconfig is command line tool to run the SharePoint product and Configuration wizard.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
1 answer
20 views

psconfig -passphrase exit with The passphrase parameter specified with the upgrade command is missing or invalid

Hello to all every time i ran psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -passphrase "Type your Farm Pass Phrase" -wait I get the error: The passphrase parameter specified with the upgrade command ...
Andrea Dal Farra's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
19 views

psconfig stops at C2WTS service install for an hour before moving on and finishing properly

We have 2 SharePoint 2016 on-prem farms; each has 2 front ends and 2 app servers. One farm is production and the other is a hot backup. For the past few years, 6 of the 8 servers would pause for about ...
Chris's user avatar
  • 1
0 votes
1 answer
126 views

SharePoint 2016 one corrupt Server in the farm

I have a similar issue to the one here but even worse. Not only will psconfig not start, I can't stop/start any SharePoint services or load SharePoint PS-snapin or management shell. Also can't ...
RobSP's user avatar
  • 1
0 votes
1 answer
321 views

Sharepoint 2013 PostSetup System.NullReferenceException after upgrade

I have SharePoint 2013 with build number = 15.0.4569.1506 now we have installed November 2018 CU, but when i run the product configuration wizard i got the following exception on step 8 out of 9: I ...
Daniel Pap's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
240 views

psconfig in 2019 eating all the memory after patching

I've the following environment 1 sharepoint 2019 single host (windows 2016, 4 cpu, 16 GB RAM) after every patch installation running the recommendend psconfig PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -...
Andrea Dal Farra's user avatar
0 votes
3 answers
2k views

Why is SharePoint 2016 PSCONFIG Upgrade Failing with User Does Not Have Permissions?

I receive the following error during PSCONFIG upgrade: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products. This is a critical task. You have to fix the failures before you can continue. Follow this link for more ...
C1TonyB's user avatar
  • 435
0 votes
1 answer
613 views

Feature 'f10fa067-3342-4d85-b5ac-92525d3491a7' for list template '10002' is not installed in this farm

I got an error while try to run PSConfig."Feature 'f10fa067-3342-4d85-b5ac-92525d3491a7' for list template '10002' is not installed in this farm" I did not find this feature neither in ...
Srinu Dasari's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
2k views

Should I patch or run PSCONFIG on the farm

I am facing some issues with one of the farms, in particular the sandbox which consists of 2 WFE, 1 App Server and 1 DB server. In the image below you can see the Health Analyzer complaints for ...
dimitrisd's user avatar
  • 289
0 votes
2 answers
222 views

SharePoint Database Compatibility mode After Upgrade - What is the Best Practice?

I upgraded a SharePoint Site Collection DB from SQL 2012/SharePoint 2013 to SQL 2016/SharePoint 2016. Compatibility mode still shows 2012. Should I change compatibility mode to SQL 2016 and run ...
C1TonyB's user avatar
  • 435
0 votes
1 answer
218 views

SharePoint March CU installation problems

Microsoft assisted me with patching our SharePoint 2013 instance. It turns out the engineer was missing params in the command he had me run, which was this: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -...
steveareeno's user avatar
  • 1,185
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Cannot find feature to delete

Recently ran psconfigui against our SharePoint 2016 web and app servers. The psconfigui against the web server completed but with the following errrors: An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint....
BarnumBailey's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
1k views

Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error encrypting or decrypting credentials

i removed server from existing farm from central administratin _admin/FarmServers.aspx Servers in farm page, and after in exsting WFE servers and when i join the server to existing farm i get below ...
adilahmed's user avatar
  • 2,975
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Perpetual "Upgrade Available" for the Servers on Farm

[This issue has been raised here several times - I've tried all suggested solutions and none have resolved issue (list of resources at bottom under ULS log) - maybe someone has some new insight...] ...
SP Combatant's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
139 views

Product Config Wizard in farm

I have 2 Web and 2 App servers in production farm. (+ separate database server) After patching/security updates I would like to run Configuration Wizard. What is the serial I should follow? both App ...
user868150's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
662 views

PSConfig fails at task 5 of 6

When I run PSConfig after install CU, I get this error. "Performing configuration task 5 of 6 Upgrading SharePoint Products... Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products. An exception of type System....
Anh Dai Pham's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
670 views

How to Add Web Server to Server Farm?

This is my first time creating a multi-tier server farm for our company and I am trying to add our Web Server to our SharePoint server farm. When I try to run the product configuration from our Web ...
xjewlz's user avatar
  • 23
6 votes
4 answers
10k views

How to remove SharePoint Feature from Database

Recently I was trying to Update Patch(update for SharePoint Server 2016 (KB4011053)). But when I tried to run PSConfig.exe, Upgrade failed because of Missing Feature 'CustomTiles' (Id: 15/'...
Srinu Dasari's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

SharePoint 2013 Configuration Wizard "Access Denied" on Step 5 "Failed to Register SharePoint Services"

Right now, I cannot access my Central Admin. (Access Denied) When I run the configuration wizard to rebuild Central Administration, it errors out on Step 5 "Registering SharePoint Services" with an "...
TonyV's user avatar
  • 21
1 vote
0 answers
200 views

Why are SP security updates showing as Missing/Required?

Let me preface by saying, I already ran the Get-SPProduct -local but I think it's because the security updates are not there. I have a couple questions regarding security updates and patching as this ...
Mike's user avatar
  • 12.2k
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

SharePoint 2013 psconfig after CU install

I'm running into an issue after installing a CU in my SharePoint 2013 farm. Installed the CU restarted my AP server, stopped services: spadminv4, sptimerv4, sptracev4 spwriterv4 and w3svc. Ran the ...
Vader's user avatar
  • 147
2 votes
0 answers
365 views

After system state restore: (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))

So the system drive of our SBS 2011 server has crashed. We had a backup which we used to perform a systemstate recovery and non-authorative restore of Active Directory. Since the restore, our ...
Forza's user avatar
  • 71
4 votes
1 answer
696 views

PSConfig inplace upgrade - Failed to start service SearchServiceInstance

I had some free time on my hands lately, so I decided to fix some of issues in Health Analyzer. I decided on fixing database need to be upgraded error. I ran following command: psconfig -cmd ...
Paweł Mach's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
272 views

Unable to access CA after renaming server

I have a single server SharePoint 2013 VM. (SharePoint and SQL installed on one machine). I made a copy of VM and then renamed the host name from OldServer to NewServer. I am able to access SQL ...
Frank Martin's user avatar
  • 3,714
2 votes
2 answers
2k views

Change sharepoint 2013 central admin language

I have installed a DEeutsch version of SharePoint 2013 -x64 mistakenly and want to change the central admin page's language to English. I have installed the language pack,. The 1033 folder exists. ...
Adi's user avatar
  • 103
1 vote
1 answer
3k views

Getting error on PSConfig - SharePoint 2013

I am trying to run this command PsConfig -cmd secureresources in the Windows PowerShell ISE. But I am getting following errors: Psconfig: The term 'Psconfig' is not recognized as the name of a ...
mak's user avatar
  • 125
2 votes
1 answer
329 views

Why is changing the sharepoint configuration database from the registry unsupported?

I have a sharepoint 2010 server pointed to an old DNS entry we used for our SQL configuration database. It turns out that I do not want to use that DNS entry, but a different one in my connection ...
David Dworetzky's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
160 views

Getting System.Xml.XmlException error trying to re-add app server to our farm

We upgraded one of our servers with SP1, then July 2015 Cumulative updates but were getting errors. So we disconnected the server from farm and re-upgraded with no errors. But when we try to reattach ...
Herschel's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
579 views

SharePoint 2013 WFE Configuration Failed - Could not find part of the path

I am trying to join two WFE's to a new farm, but when I run PSCONFIGGUI it fails on step 4. Failed to connect to the configuration database In the error it then states An exception of type Sytem.IO....
Rob Sked's user avatar
  • 431
0 votes
1 answer
950 views

Get-SPServer shows that all servers in the farm except itself need to be upgraded. Is there a problem?

This morning I was reviewing the SharePoint Health Analyzer alerts and came across an error that one of my non content databases (Search) was "in compatibility range and upgrade is recommended." I ...
Psycho Bob's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
101 views

Can I re-run SharePoint 2010 SP2 with no issues?

I was installing SharePoint 2010 SP2, and the installation of the binaries completed, however, I ran into an error when running the PSCONFIG part of it. I restarted the computer and re-ran the ...
contactmatt's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
5k views

Runing PSConfig.exe via powershell

I keep getting syntax error for the following psconfig.exe. Any idea? Start-Process "PSConfig.exe" ps-ArgumentList "-cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd ...
Miley Jordan's user avatar
10 votes
1 answer
1k views

SharePoint 2013 Foundation psconfig fails

I need your help regarding one weird issue. I have two 2012 Datacenter WinServers acting like WFE & APP and one separate 2012 SQL Server for databases with instance, alias, properly enabled TCP/IP ...
Molik's user avatar
  • 1,636
1 vote
1 answer
301 views

PSCONFIG trying to access wrong DLL in GAC?

TL;DR Uninstalling SharePoint 2010 and installing SharePoint 2007 makes PSCONFIG stop running since it misses the Microsoft.SharePoint.DLL version 14. How can this be solved? On a SharePoint 2010 ...
Benny Skogberg's user avatar
  • 25.5k
1 vote
0 answers
4k views

SharePoint 2013 - Service Pack 1: Language Pack is missing

Today I wanted to update my SharePoint 2013 with SP 1. I´m using 2 WFE with SharePoint 2013 English and a German Language Pack. The Language Pack is installed on both SharePoint Server. My ...
LaPhi's user avatar
  • 1,001