WSS SP2 Automatic Upgrade Problems

I had a client yesterday who could no longer edit any of the columns in her document library.  Very strange behavior.  I figured the large library was corrupt so I created a new library on her server and had the same behavior.  So I started scratching my head. Turns out that Automatic updates had ran and installed WSS SP2 for her.  Apparently when it installed it did not update the virtual servers.  So if you went to WSS central admin and clicked Configure Virtual Settings you would see Upgrade and you couldn’t get into the screens to edit the settings. 

 

I tried to manually install WSS SP2 to correct the issues but it said nope because it was already installed.  So then from the command prompt I ran

 

stsadm.exe –o upgrade –forceupgrade

 

That fixes it! 

 

This is a Microsoft KB article that covers the issue also.  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907308

 

Some other symptoms I have heard for this problem is that you can not edit document or list properties and you can not apply new themes or templates.  Just FYI.

 

HTH (Hope This Helps)

 

 

Shane

 

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Published Wed, Nov 2 2005 12:16 by Shane

Comments

# re: WSS SP2 Automatic Upgrade Problems

Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:53 AM by Shane

Had a similar problem. WSUS installed SP2 on our SharePoint server and the result was that we could not create new areas at all.

We were getting the following error...

"An error has occurred in the portal site. Contact the portal site administrator for assistance."

Ran the stsadm.exe –o upgrade –forceupgrade from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN> and all is well.

Thanks much!

# SSL Only Portal vs. SP2 Schema

Friday, June 23, 2006 12:42 AM by The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac

Ok so back in November I wrote an article on WSS SP2 Automatic Upgrade Problems which I am glad to say...

# re: WSS SP2 Automatic Upgrade Problems

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:19 AM by Shilpa

Had a similar problem. WSUS installed SP2 on our SharePoint server and the result was that we could not create new areas at all.

We were getting the following error...

"An error has occurred in the portal site. Contact the portal site administrator for assistance."

Ran the stsadm.exe –o upgrade –forceupgrade from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN> and still the problem persists. Please help

# A very common prescan problem that stops you from doing your upgrade

Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:27 PM by The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac

I have gotten the same email from several people and the fix has been the same just about every time

# re: WSS SP2 Automatic Upgrade Problems

Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:43 PM by J.C

It works fine now!

But make sure you don't add ".exe" extension for stsadm

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN>stsadm –o upgrade –forceupgrade

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