Todd Klindt's Office 365 Admin Blog

Hi Todd,
note that Office web apps SP1 has an updated KB article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880557
Due to a known issue also note that the update SP1 release is also available via windows/Microsoft update on the OWA servers.

Cheers,
Gavin

Hi Todd,

Would you happen to know if the Language Packs SP1 was also affected and if so will there be a re-release? Being part of a Global organisation I've installed every language pack available for SP2013 and Office Web Apps Server 2013 so I'm keen to have everything patched correctly.

Thanks
Chet

After the EXE ran on all machines in the farm (and before the SP Config Wizard) I needed to run this magic command:

Get-SPProduct -Local

This seems to refresh the knowledge about which server has which KB patch installed.  SP Config Wizard ran perfectly after this PowerShell command.

It seems that in the new Cloud first strategy Microsoft have sacrificed product quality for on premise service packs.

Repeated issues with recent service packs on SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 fill me with dismay.

In the early days of PCs we were used to flaky software updates. Microsoft was the primary factor in improving product quality and reliability. No longer true.

I am losing trust in Microsoft after 20 years being a strong supporter.

While Microsoft's strategy is clearly cloud first I don't think that figures in to this at all. The software is infinitely more complicated than it was 20 years ago, and the attack vectors are infinitely larger. And the stakes are higher.

I certainly don't like broken service packs, but I completely understand how it happens.

tk

Hi,
I hope you can help me with my installation problem.
I installed SharePoint 2013 sp1 on all my four servers. Three of the installations went well, but one installation failed. In Sharepoint Admin Center, the patch status shows  15.0.4571.1502 is missing. I tried to re-install, the installation did not go anywhere and just  said “there is no products affected by this installation”

Is there a way uninstall sp1 or is there a command line to false sp1 to reinstall?

Hi,
I hope you can help me with my installation problem.
I installed SharePoint 2013 sp1 on all my four servers. Three of the installations went well, but one installation failed. In Sharepoint Admin Center, the patch status shows  15.0.4571.1502 is missing. I tried to re-install, the installation did not go anywhere and just  said “there is no products affected by this installation”

Is there a way uninstall sp1 or is there a command line to false sp1 to reinstall?

Hi,
I hope you can help me with my installation problem.
I installed SharePoint 2013 sp1 on all my four servers. Three of the installations went well, but one installation failed. In Sharepoint Admin Center, the patch status shows  15.0.4571.1502 is missing. I tried to re-install, the installation did not go anywhere and just  said “there is no products affected by this installation”

Is there a way uninstall sp1 or is there a command line to false sp1 to reinstall?

Sorry for the long post Todd, but I really need some help here.
By the way, nice meeting you in Austin during SPTechcon. Shane is just way to hung up on hugging everybody :)


I have 2 wfe and 2 app servers in prod. I used this guide  http://blog.fpweb.net/how-to-install-sharepoint-2013-service-pack-1/#.VSaqWLE4XTs to install the SP1. After the first installment on the app server running CA, which took way too long, i found the this article  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install.aspx and used the script on the other servers to reduce install time significally.

Then I started the Products Configuration Wizard on the app(CA) server, and everything seemed fine, until it just kept hanging on step 9. I cancelled the wizard and used Psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force. It went along for a little while but then seemed to stop at step 4 and giving me an Configuration of SharePoint Products failed. Configuration must be performed before you use SharePoint Products message.

I tried to use the wizard again, and then it it tells me it will repair the SP installation, do that ok. try the same wizard again, and still it keeps showing me the repair message and not This wizard will upgrade SharePoint Products

In Central Admin the patch status says 15.0.4571.1502, but the Upgrade Status throws nice Failed messages at me.

What am I doing wrong??

Sorry for the long post Todd, but I really need some help here.
By the way, nice meeting you in Austin during SPTechcon. Shane is just way to hung up on hugging everybody :)


I have 2 wfe and 2 app servers in prod. I used this guide  http://blog.fpweb.net/how-to-install-sharepoint-2013-service-pack-1/#.VSaqWLE4XTs to install the SP1. After the first installment on the app server running CA, which took way too long, i found the this article  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install.aspx and used the script on the other servers to reduce install time significally.

Then I started the Products Configuration Wizard on the app(CA) server, and everything seemed fine, until it just kept hanging on step 9. I cancelled the wizard and used Psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force. It went along for a little while but then seemed to stop at step 4 and giving me an Configuration of SharePoint Products failed. Configuration must be performed before you use SharePoint Products message.

I tried to use the wizard again, and then it it tells me it will repair the SP installation, do that ok. try the same wizard again, and still it keeps showing me the repair message and not This wizard will upgrade SharePoint Products

In Central Admin the patch status says 15.0.4571.1502, but the Upgrade Status throws nice Failed messages at me.

What am I doing wrong??