Installing the April 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2013

I have been having issues with the original RTM version of SP2013 that i have installed on my Amazon EC2 VM. So i decided to try and install the Cumulative updates that are available for SharePoint 2013.

The latest CU that is available is the April 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013 Server and Foundation. So I downloaded the same and tried installing. On running the installer, it gives the error - "Required Product not found on this machine". This is because if we want to install the April 2013 CU then first we have to install the March 2013 Public Update (PU) first. So points to note are -

1. Install the March 2013 Public Update for SharePoint 2013 first.

2. Do not download the March 2013 Public Update for SharePoint 2013 FOUNDATION as it's included in the SharePoint 2013 Server Public Update itself.

The March 2013 public update for SharePoint 2013 server can be found here -

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36987

After running the installer and mandatory reboot, run the SharePoint 2013 Configuration wizard & check that everything is working fine in SharePoint.

Now download, extract and run the April 2013 CU for SharePoint Server 2013 (DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE APRIL 2013 CU FOR SP2013 FOUNDATION). The April 2013 CU for SharePoint Server 2013 can be found here -

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbln=en-us&kbnum=2726992

After the installation & reboot, run the Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to complete the Update.

I found some good links for reference and included the same here -

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj891062.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/office/ee748587.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806331(v=office.15)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806338(v=office.15)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/04/27/april-2013-cu-for-sharepoint-2013-has-been-released.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/03/21/march-public-update-for-sharepoint-2013-available-and-mandatory.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install.aspx