Central Admin - Product / patch installation or server upgrade required.

Daniel M 126 Reputation points
2021-03-16T07:14:35.167+00:00

Hi,

In sharepoint 2016 on-premise, in central admin, we get the error that "Product / patch installation or server upgrade required. - All required products must be installed on all servers in the farm, and all products should have the same patching and upgrade level across the farm."

I run "stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > e:\UpgradeStatus.txt"

And search for "needs upgrade" and find two of these:

<name>News</name>
<type>Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb</type>
<level>7</level>
<status>Needs Upgrade</status>

So, how do I upgrade these two subsites so that we don't get the error?

/Daniel

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  1. Allen Xu_MSFT 13,836 Reputation points
    2021-03-17T05:38:38.217+00:00

    Hi @Daniel M ,

    To narrow down this issue, let's verify the followings:

    • Did you install patches on your SharePoint farm recently? If yes, have you installed patches on all your APP servers and WFE servers? And have you also installed MUI/language patch if there is? Have you run SharePoint 2016 Products Configuration Wizard or executed PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures after installing patches on all SharePoint servers in your farm?

    There is an article about troubleshooting such issue for your reference: SharePoint 2016 Product / Patch installation or server upgrade required.

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