Hello William,

This is an old post and possibly the script no longer works. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks

The key actions that the script would have performed are to pause search, disable and stop the SPTimerV4 and stop W3SVC service.

Run the patch install.

Then, Enable and Start SPTimerV4 Service, and W3SVC service when the patch is installed.

Finally, resume search after all SP Servers have the patch installed on them.

Hello Torsten,

Not sure if it works on SE.
I suggest you try it and let me know if it works.

Thanks
Miguel

Great article! I have a question.

We currently have a SharePoint Subscription Edition installed.
Do you know whether the Powershell script to install cumulative updates also works for SE version?

Thank you ….

This was very helpful, can you also guide me on how to roll back in case of a failure. Like after taking all the backups, what all needs to be restored in what sequence and how do we restore.

Hello Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback. Hope it helps!

Kind Regards,
Miguel

Hello Jeff,

That should take only a few minutes (5-10m max) but it depends on SharePoint server resources, it should’t take 25m.
One another alternative you can test, is to run the following PowerShell command right before starting the update process:

Suspend-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication –Identity “”

Using this process, you should run Install-SPPatch -Path D:\SharePoint\Updates (without the -Pause parameter)

In the end (after running SharePoint Products and Configuratio Wizard), you can run:

Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication –Identity “”

You can find details at https://blogit.create.pt////miguelisidoro/2019/04/08/how-to-install-sharepoint-cumulative-updates-in-a-sharepoint-farm-step-by-step/

My suggestion is not following that post from start to end, but only do this adjustment to the PowerShell approach in this post.

Hepe it helps!
Thanks

I started the script, it’s been running for 25 minutes and it is still on the “Pausing the search service application.
This could take a few minutes…” step.

How long should that step take? Thanks!

Hello Madhup,

Not sure about that one, never been on that position before. The only time I have SharePoint farms in the previous version mode is temporarly during upgrades. I usually finish the upgrade process using Upgrade-SPSite http://portal -VersionUpgrade. More details on upgrade at https://blogit.create.pt////miguelisidoro/2019/03/06/how-to-upgrade-from-sharepoint-2013-to-sharepoint-2019-step-by-step-part-1/ and https://blogit.create.pt////miguelisidoro/2019/03/06/how-to-upgrade-from-sharepoint-2013-to-sharepoint-2019-step-by-step-part-2/.

Questions:
1. Why do you have your SharePoint 2013 farm in SharePoint 2010 mode? Any business requirement?
2. Can you upgrade it to SharePoint 2013 mode?
3. If not, I advise you to have a similar test farm, also in SharePoint 2010 mode and test the installation of Cumulative Updates there first

Hope it helps,
Miguel