Monday, May 11, 2009

“Feature '20477d83-8bdb-414e-964b-080637f7d99b' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope” when installing SP2

Yesterday evening, when installing Service Pack 2 to my test SharePoint farm, the configuration wizard failed on Step 3. After dissecting the Upgrade.log file located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Logs\Upgrade.log, I found the following error:

[WebApplicationSequence] [ERROR] [5/10/2009 6:51:13 PM]: Feature '20477d83-8bdb-414e-964b-080637f7d99b' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope.

After further research, I discovered the feature referred to in the error (20477d83-8bdb-414e-964b-080637f7d99b) is the “PublishingTimerJobs” feature. To install this feature to the farm, run the following stsadm command:

stsadm -o installfeature -name PublishingTimerJobs

Next, I recommend forcing the timer job to execute immediately.

stsadm.exe -o execadmsvcjobs

Finally, run the configuration wizard again to successfully complete the installation of SP2 to the SharePoint farm:

psconfig -cmd upgrade -wait -inplace b2b

Hope this helps.

9 comments:

  1. Thanks, this worked a treat for me

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  2. Thanks a lot. It has also worked for me.

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  3. Also big thanks, I lost a few days of work on this!

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  4. Awesome - saved me a lot of time.

    BTW, I also had to do this after the above command:

    psconfig -cmd installfeatures

    because a search feature wasn't installed. This was after a fresh install, installing all service packs and latest cumulative update.

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  5. Worked for me. I received the error in test when installing June'09 CU.

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  6. This feature will also be installed when running PSconfig wizard instead of psconfig -cmd upgrade -wait -inplace b2b.
    The wizards checks if there are any standard feature's missing and install those automatically besides other sharepoint checks

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  7. It was perfect and worked for me.
    Only this hint solved our problem.
    thanks a lot

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  8. Frickin Microsoft! Leave it to them to make out of the box RTM products have issues with a service pack

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