SharePoint 2013 – MsiInstaller – 1015 – Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070005

Issue

Everynight in event log, you find this warning:

Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070005

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But you don’t find the generally associated COM errors.

Solution

  1. Make farm admin account temporary local admin (the one that start SharePoint Timer)
  2. Through SharePoint PowerShell: Get-SPProduct -local
  3. Through SharePoint PowerShell: (get-spserver $env:computername).NeedsUpgrade
  4. Start manually the timer job which generate this warning: Get-SPTimerJob job-admin-product-version | Start-SPTimerJob
  5. Ensure this warning is not happening anymore
  6. Remove from local admin group
  7. Restart SharePoint Timer
  8. Start again manually the timer job which generate this warning: Get-SPTimerJob job-admin-product-version | Start-SPTimerJob
  9. Ensure this warning is not happening anymore

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