October CU Fails to Install

After you install SharePoint cumulative updates you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard (psconfig.exe). However, while installing the October 2011 cumulative update recently, I found it was failing on the last step where the udpate gets applied. I discovered that the SharePoint 2010 Timer service was getting shut down after the first step when running psconfig which in turn made the last step fail. The solution is simple: keep the Services console open when running psconfig and restart the Timer service before reaching the last step!

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