Difference between psconfig.exe and products and technologies wizard running in GUI

Difference between psconfig.exe and products and technologies wizard running in GUI

Most of the administrators think that, both running the GUI configuration Wizard and Running the Psconfig.exe-cmd command will do the same after the install of CU or SP. But in reality, Both are not same and there is a much difference in running those in GUI and command.

In this article I am trying to explain the things what made the difference between and which is recommended to run after the install of CU or SP

products and technologies wizard:

1.     PSCONFIGUI.EXE( products and technologies configuration wizard) is the UI based configuration wizard which performs several tasks one after the other after installing fixes.

2.     It will perform all the operation including  setup, standalone config,  config db, help collections, secure resources services,installfeatures,adminvs,upgrade,evalprovision,applicationcontent,quiet

PSCONFIG.EXE:

1.     PSCONFIG.EXE is the command line tool which gives users granular control over all tasks that are executed and which is therefore quicker than PSCONFIGUI.EXE.

2.     Most of us just ran the following command

PSCONFIG -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait

But that command only performs a subset of operations performed by PSCONFIGUI.EXE. E.g. it will not update the files in the _app_bin directory of the web applications! 

I would recommend to run the Products and technologies configuration wizard to set everything is perfect after the installation of CU or service pack. If you still need to include the PSCONFIG.EXE in any of the script, you include the below

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

I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.