SharePoint March CU installation problems

Question

Microsoft assisted me with patching our SharePoint 2013 instance. It turns out the engineer was missing params in the command he had me run, which was this:

psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -wait

Instead of the full thing:

PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures -cmd secureresources -cmd services -install

We ran into a bunch or problems, some of which were solved by running:

psconfig.exe -cmd secureresources

Next, we had issues opening office documents. I fixed this by running:

Install-SPApplicationContent

Now I am worried we might still have some other issues. Looking at the full psconfig command, I saw there are powershell equivalents for them:

Install-SPFeature -AllExistingFeatures
Install-SPService
Initialize-SPResourceSecurity

Is it safe to run these just to be sure everything was configured correctly? I would run the psconfig wizard all over again but don't want a sustained outage

Answer 1

Yes, it is safe to re-run these at any time. You must run these on each SharePoint server. You can always just re-execute the full psconfig command, instead. Or run the Config Wizard.