Database Update Status “ Needs Upgrade” Sp2013

Question

I am in the process of upgrading sp2013 farm to SP1 upgrade soon. To prep for that i was going though datbase status page in central admin and saw the following:

With that info on hand i was curious enough to know what objects needed upgrade in the farm. So i ran stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus

That got me results about all the objects in my farm. Within those objects identified 3 objects either needed upgrade or cannot be upgrades:

<object>
<name>sp_SecureStore_PR13</name>
<type>Microsoft.Office.SecureStoreService.Server.SecureStoreServiceDatabase</type>
<level>2</level>
<status>Cannot Upgrade</status>

<object>
<name>sp_StateService_PR13</name>
<type>Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.StateDatabase</type>
<level>2</level>
<status>Cannot Upgrade</status>

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

How should i go about fixing these objects, looks like SecureStore service db and StateService db cannot be upgraded, what does that exactly mean. How is that going to effect my SP1 upgrade. The last object "MTS" of type Microsoft.Sharepoint.SPweb, i dont have such db in my farm so waht exactly is it pointing towards.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank You

Answer 1

Looks like some thing in your content database required updates. couple of possibilities:

• you may restore the site collection in that db
• upgrade from last time not completed successfully.
• may be you moved the content/ pages from different version which required upgrade.

Solution

• run upgrade-spcontentdatabase "DB name" and once it completed successfully you will see no action required.

I would prefer to run this before applying the SP1. But in my experience i applied the CU in same situation and that works.