CU Installation fails with Exit Code 1603 #23
Description
SP2013 January 2019 CU fails to install because it cannot start the application pools (since W3SVC is set to disabled). The following errors are logged in the Application Event Log:
Log Name: Application
Source: MsiInstaller
Event ID: 1023
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: SYSTEM
Description:
Product: Microsoft SharePoint Portal - Update 'Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB4461605) 64-Bit Edition' could not be installed. Error code 1603. Additional information is available in the log file D:\Notes\patching\log\msp\coreserver-x-none_MSPLOG.LOG.
Source: MsiInstaller
Event ID: 11920
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: SYSTEM
Description:
Product: Microsoft SharePoint Portal -- Error 1920.Service 'World Wide Web Publishing Service' (W3SVC) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.
Workaround is to comment out the section about setting W3SVC to disabled or to manually set it to Manual after RunEXE starts.