Proper Way of Installing SharePoint Cumulative Updates
Microsoft periodically releases SharePoint software updates, patches / bug fixes as Cumulative Update (CU) packages. Cumulative Updates contain numerous hot fixes and improvements for SharePoint 2013. The cumulative update package is multilingual and contains updates for all languages. Installing SharePoint Cumulative Update process may take too long if it is directly applied. Best practice for installing SharePoint Cumulative Update requires disabling and stopping some services before applying the CU. Proper way of applying cumulative update is given below: 1. Open the "Search Service Application" on SharePoint Central Administration Site (Application Management > Manage Service Applications). Stop all running or planned Search Crawls. 2. Open SharePoint Management Shell with administrator privileges on all servers in the Server Farm. 3. Stop the Search Service Application $ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $ssa.pause() 4....