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Run the Farm Configuration Wizard
- Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is the Setup user account.
- On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, on the Quick Launch, click Configuration Wizards, and then click Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard.
When should I run Psconfig?
It is best to run the command after business hours. The amount of time the command takes to run will vary on the size of the database and the speed of the machine.
What does the product configuration wizard do for SharePoint?
Product configuration wizard is run to confiugure the content and config database. Its advisable to run this post the installation of sharepoint is complete. If you have an exisitng farm that you need to connect to then you can specify it over here else you can create a new server farm.
Web site mentioned in the error ( **** .local80) still exist and working? If you have more than one server in farm, simply copy the web.config file from other server for same Virtual directory and re ran the Config wizard. Simply delete the Web Application ( i am sure your web app not working as missing web.config) or re provision it.
Server farm: The top-level element of a logical architecture design for SharePoint Server 2013. Web application: An IIS Web site that is created and used by SharePoint Server 2013. Content database: Provides storage Web application content.
Why do we recommend / require to run the configuration wizard?
The other servers in the farm will not be affected during installation. So update one server after the other. Same later when running PSCONFIG: run psconfig on the central admin server first – that will update the DB schema. Other servers should not be affected (or only for a very short time).