Sharepoint Patching

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We're having some fun with sharepoint patching this week.

I dusted down some old notes and re-acquainted myself with the patching process.

Step 1 - find the service accounts!
Step 2 - Use the 5 hour script by Russ Maxwell https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/russmax/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install/
Step 3 - if you use the script, remember to enable the disabled services (I'm looking at you, IIS Admin service)
Step 4 - If psconfig fails (or claims that products arent installed), remember Get-SPProduct -Local and try again
Step 5 - If PSConfig fails at the application file stage (merging xml) check the web.config files for comments <!-- blah blah -->
Step 6 - Resume the search service application


Happy patching!

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