Showing posts with label SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard "Configuration Failed"

Ever spent a full day (or more) trying to get SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard to work properly?

It seems like every time I have to run this thing it fails with that lovely "Configuration Failed" error message...and this is of course after 15-20 min and 92.57% or whatever random percentage it pulls out of the air.

You can dig through the logs, the "Upgrade-datestamp-timestamp-randomnumber-error.log" log file often has much more informative information in it that the "PCDiagnostics_datestamp_timestamp_randomnumber.log" that the wizard recommends.

So, after that then what?

Never fear, Command Prompt is here!

Run this command from a SharePoint 2010 Management Shell prompt and 9 times out of 10 it will work...I don't know why i don't just do this to start with.
PSCONFIG.EXE -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force
there are many different switches you can add to this command all of which may or may not help but this is the one that i use the most.