topic Re: For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1... in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1...

ThomasColson — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:52:37 GMT

...and you're on IIS and you have Windows Updates managed "for you". There was known quality issue with a Windows Update that blows up IIS: It can't restart. As upgrading ArcGIS Server requires a reinstall of the Web Adaptor, which requires an IIS restart, you're stuff out of luck if you did try it. Fortunately, there is a sort of fix.

See these threads for lots of troubleshooting and speculation:

My 2 cents, it'd be great if the WA install had some pre-install testing that could be run, so if any IIS stability issues are detected, it would recommend not uninstalling your current WA. 6 hours of my life I'll never get back, thanks M$........

Re: For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1...

JoshuaBixby — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:02:21 GMT

Thanks for sharing. Our production systems are still 10.5.x, but we do have 10.6 in development and this may impact our upgrades there. I see lots of references to 2012 R2. We run 2016, so I will have to dig deeper to see if that version is impacted.

Re: For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1...

MichaelVolz — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:48:51 GMT

Did you see this issue in your devopment environment for 10.6.1?

Re: For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1...

ThomasColson — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 19:37:29 GMT

Yes, I foolishly uninstalled the 10.5.1 WA and attempted to install the 10.6.1 WA without checking to see if IIS would restart, something I know to check. Installing https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4338831/july172018kb4338831osbuildpreviewofmonthlyrollup allowed me to proceed with the install. This was on production, not development. I'm so used to ArcGIS server upgrade working flawlessly...but there is a complicated arrangement of Portals and Wed Adaptors on our dev so.....take away my parking spot!

Re: For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1...

ThomasColson — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 19:39:36 GMT

well....sort of "Dev". It's a server that supports a workgroup that spends most of the summer elsewhere.....they'll never know!

Re: For those of your unfortunate enough to be upgrading to 10.6.1...

DavidHoy — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 23:00:09 GMT

looks like the August 14 MS Update has been released

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4343888/windows-81-update-kb4343888

- this should include the fix that was in the "preview" patch.