Hi,
A WFE/Application server in one of our 2 SharePoint farms gives an error advising that “an error occurred while running detection” when applying any CU. How do we fix the detection error to be able to apply the new “Uber” Sept 2015 CU to leverage the new hybrid search functionalities without having to rebuild the server?
For further background, the detection error occurs when either running the CU as an administrator directly or while using the Patchit script.
It not only occurs on the CU we were trying to run, the Sept 2015 “Uber” CU, but also when we try to rerun SP1 or our current build version CU, Dec 2014, to try to get a consistent patch baseline.
Running PSCONFIGUI.EXE as administrator will not detect the upgrade needed.
Checking the opatchinstall.log file gives a sys.proc.result value of 17044 error
The event viewer shows no errors in the Windows or Microsoft logs that would relate to the CU error. Nothing shows up in the ULS logs either.
We have installed the SP1 language packs and they upgraded successfully when PSCONFIGUI was run.
We are showing that we are on the Dec 2014 CU for SharePoint server:
Configuration database version: | 15.0.4675.1000 |
PS C:\Users\sp_install> (get-spfarm).buildversion
Major Minor Build Revision
----- ----- ----- --------
15 0
4675 1000
However, when I look in the Manage Patch Status, several of the products show a patch status of SP1 - 15.0.4571.1502
We also show 2 guid folders in c:\programdata\Microsoft\sharepoint\config. One has the expected config.ini file and xml files. The other has over 800 PERSISTEDFILE files that update when SPCONFIGUI is run, even if the entire folder is deleted.
Also, the icons in the taskbar for Central Admin, SharePoint 2013 Management Shell and Sharepoint 2013 Products Configuration wizard show as blank pages.
We have been running windows security updates to stay current on security and I fear that a SharePoint server update applied without PSConfig being run after it installed and that has corrupted a portion of the SharePoint install.
We have not tried the following:
- Running Get-SPProduct Local and the running the CU
- Running the CU with the Package.Bypass.Detection.Check=1 switch
- Running ROIScan.vbs
- Running OPUtil.vbs
- Running a repair of any SharePoint Products from programs and features.
Below I have provided the results of Stefan Gossner’s Script script which retrieves the version information for the patch baseline from the registry and allows to identify components which are below the re-released Service Pack 1 base line:
Products and Language Packs
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DisplayName : Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Arabic العربية
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Bulgarian/български
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Catalan/Català
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Czech/čeština
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Danish/dansk
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - German/Deutsch
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Greek/Ελληνικά
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - English
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Spanish/Español
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Estonian/Eesti
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Basque/Euskara
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Finnish/suomi
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - French/Français
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Galician/Galego
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Hebrew עברית
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Hindi/हिंदी
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Croatian/Hrvatski
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Hungarian/magyar
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Italian/Italiano
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Japanese/日本語
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Kazakh/Қазақ үлгісі
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Korean/한국어
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Lithuanian/Lietuvių k.
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Latvian/latviski
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Malay/Bahasa Malaysia
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Norwegian/norsk
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Polish/Polski
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Portuguese/Português (Brasil)
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Portuguese/Português
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Romanian/Română
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Russian/русский
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Slovak/Slovenčina
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Slovenian/slovenščina
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Serbian/српски
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Serbian/srpski
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Swedish/svenska
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Thai/ไทย
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Turkish/Türkçe
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Ukrainian/Українська
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint 2013 - Vietnamese/Tiếng Việt
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Chinese (PRC)/中文(简体)
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502
DisplayName : Language Pack for SharePoint and Project Server 2013 - Chinese (Taiwan)/中文 (繁體)
DisplayVersion : 15.0.4571.1502