So recently I was tasked with applying MOSS 2007 SP1 to a medium farm. All was well after I installed the binaries on each of the servers and ran the SharePoint configuration wizard on te sever running central administration first. I then moved to one of the web front ends and ran the SharePoint configuraion wizard (psconfg). The wizard failed wit the error below:
"Unable to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies because an upgrade is already in progress. Upgrade progress can be monitored using the Central Administration Web Application or by monitoring the upgrade log on server."
So first I thought that I would be able to go into central administration (CA) and remove the upgade timer job and all would be good. Kind of lik when a backup or restore fails throu CA you just delete the timer job and all is well. Well I didn't see a timer job that may have failed that I could delete. So i decided I was going to run the SharePoint config wizard through command line which is psconfig.exe to see if I could get a more descriptive message as to what I need to track down. So I ran the syntax below:
psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force
But for the most part that yielded the same error as above. So upon further research I found this little STSADM command line gem that allowed me to clear the SP1 upgrade plate and apply the service pack again via the psconfig.exe command line interface.
Run this with STSADM: stsadm -o setproperty -pn command-line-upgrade-running -pv No
I am not quite sure what caused the error specifically to begin with probably most likely cause was that for some reason or another the timer job was stuck somewhere in the middle of SharePoint space. Anyhow I thought I would post this as it may help someone and save some time.
Cheers!
Posted
07-01-2008 12:49 AM
by
Jason Medero