{"id":1744,"date":"2014-11-07T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obieta.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2014-11-07T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:00:55","slug":"sharepoint-2013-product-configuration-wizard-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint 2013: Product Configuration Wizard stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You have installed SP1 or some other cumulative update on all your farm servers without issue.\u00a0 You then run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard on each machine.\u00a0 It completes without issue on one or two machines, but then, on the next machine, it nearly completes but then appears to remain stuck on configuration task 9 of 10.\u00a0 You wait an hour, but it still remains stuck on task 9 of 10.\u00a0 You then check the Upgrade Status page in Central Administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Delete the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard dialog.\u00a0 Terminate the process of necessary to remove it.<\/li>\n<li>Open the Services.msc panel, and then look for the\u00a0<strong>SharePoint Timer Service<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Stop this service.<\/li>\n<li>Open Windows Explorer, and then navigate to the cache folder at:<strong>C:ProgramDataMicrosoftSharePointConfig<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Look for the most recent cache folder, and then open it.<\/li>\n<li>Delete all files in this folder EXCEPT\u00a0<strong>cache.ini<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Open the cache.ini file in a text editor, and then randomly modify the number, but keep it at the same number of digits.<\/li>\n<li>Save the cache.ini file.<\/li>\n<li>Start the SharePoint Timer Service.<\/li>\n<li>Open a command prompt as Administrator.<\/li>\n<li>Run the following command:\u00a0<strong>Psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Check the Upgrade Status.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem You have installed SP1 or some other cumulative update on all your farm servers without issue.\u00a0 You then run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard on each machine.\u00a0 It completes without issue on one or two machines, but then, on the next machine, it nearly completes but then appears to remain stuck on configuration task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}