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

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