How to display version info for installed SharePoint product and language packs

How to display version info for installed SharePoint product and language packs

Issue: some times when we are installing the CU’s in SharePoint farm, we may encounter the issue like below.

“The expected version of the product was not found on the system”

http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2013/10/the-excepted-version-of-product-was-not.html

There are some work around for this to bypass\over come the issue. Please find the link below for workaround

Cause: the issue is because of some missing previous updates or patches in the server. To overcome the issue we need to find out the patches which are missed and need to install those on the server.

Solution: To figure out what the patches that missed in the server, I found a very good power shell script from Stephen. Thanks to Stephen

http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2015/04/20/powershell-script-to-display-version-info-for-sharepoint-product-and-language-packs.aspx

I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Some farm products and patches were not detected on this or other server, if products are patches missing locally

Some farm products and patches were not detected on this or other server, if products are patches missing locally                 

                                           

                                 

Issue: After patching a SharePoint 2013 Farm  with SP1, Attempted running SharePoint Products configuration wizard and receive this error message:

"Error: Some farm products and patches were not detected on this or other servers.  If products or patches are missing locally, you must quit this program and install the required products and patches on this server before restarting this wizard. If products or patches are missing on other servers, you must install the required products and patches on the specific servers, and you may then click the Refresh button to perform the status check again."

Cause: To enforce consistency, SharePoint 2013 checks installed product version automatically on running Products configuration wizard. If any server is missing a specific patch, You get this error message and SharePoint would not let the SharePoint Configuration Wizard to proceed.

Solution: This could be of many reasons, In this article I am providing all the solutions which can be applied to resolve the issue.

Solution 1:Ensure the CU is installed properly to the server, If not try re-installing the CU.

Solution 2:Ensure to run the below command to force the registry for the updates.

1.    From SharePoint Shell, run the 2 commands below on each SharePoint server.

2.    Get-SpProduct – -Local 

3.    (Get-SpServer $env:ComputerName).NeedsUpgrade 

4.    Confirm “True” is returned

Continue with running the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard

Solution 3:Ensure to follow the below steps.

1.    Central Admin-> select Monitoring from the left-hand navigation and click the Review Job Definitions link under Timer Jobs

2.    On the Job Definitions page, scroll down and locate the “Product Version Job”

3.    Click on the Product Version Job link to open the job definition. Click on Run Now at the bottom of the page

4.    Now run the SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration Wizard again

Solution 4: If for very sure, have installed patches in all servers with similar installers, you can bypass the check by below command:

psconfig.exe -cmd installcheck -noinstallcheck

Solution 5: Ensure the LP'S,Service packs for LP and CU's are installed same in server as compare with other servers.

 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.