Upgrading the 2013 Search Databases
Happy Friday -
Fumbling around this morning on my SP2013 Search (micro-farm) I stumbled across the fact that the CA was whining about my databases. Since I had a few minutes before the tide of meetings rolled in I decided to finally fix it. I had always run the psconfig upgrades after the PU's and CU's (from 2010) and assumed that addressed everything. Apparently not. This morning I found the following article on TechNet:: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/94c5f178-f020-4d0f-ba7c-11c415d0d862
The key takeaways were the following gems: In your SP Management Shell run :: (get-spserver $env:computername).NeedsUpgrade . If this comes back with "True" then you need to do a bit more work and this will upgrade the databases. If it returns a False then you are good to go for now.
This is what my CA looked like prior to the work:
This is what I ran to fix the issues:
1. Open an Administrative command prompt.
2. Change directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN
3. Run PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures
There is a whole bunch of output which I have attached in a separate file and then magically the above picture changes to this:
- Nice