Do you apply CRM 2015 update rollup 1 before upgrading to 2016?

Make sure CRM 2015 update rollup 1 has been applied before upgrading to CRM 2016.

Note: You might come accross the error below while applying CRM 2015 update rollup 1.

Database update install failed for orgId = 011d5962-3475-4df9-a123-c3ecaf88b048. Continuing with other orgs. Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction.</div><div>Uncommittable transaction is detected at the end of the batch. The transaction is rolled back.

Solution:

• Make a backup of the file MetadataDiffs.xml from “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Setup\Serviceability\Latest\Actions_Org\Install”
• Open the file MetadataDiffs.xml from “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Setup\Serviceability\Latest\Actions_Org\Install”

• Remove the entry about the index “cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel”. This is found at the very end of the file:

  <index Name="cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel">
   <EntityId&gt;4ba1569e-3c9c-4d9f-99ea-b61fb08d7f97&lt;/EntityId>
   <IsClustered>1</IsClustered>
   <IsUnique>1</IsUnique>
   <IndexType>6</IndexType&gt;
  <IsPrimaryKey>0</IsPrimaryKe>
   <attributes>
     <attribute AttributeId="d88e1df3-b5b3-42f3-9ffa-007f22951dd4" IsSystemManaged="1" order="0" />
     <attribute AttributeId="bb23d3c8-8d18-40d3-9519-66101a8cae34" IsSystemManaged="1" order="1" />
     <attribute AttributeId="976e1053-5faa-4c3f-be6e-669acfec9d5a" IsSystemManaged="1" order="2" />
     <attribute AttributeId="e81341c4-4d4a-4977-98eb-6597fcde2cc4" IsSystemManaged="1" order="3" />
  </attributes>
  </index>

• Close Deployment Manager
• Start Deployment Manager
• Start the organization update from Deployment manager

• Run the following query on the organization DB to manually recreate the index

  IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE name = 'cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel' AND OBJECT_NAME(object_id) = 'BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase') DROP INDEX [cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel] ON [BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase];
  IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE NAME = 'cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel' AND OBJECT_NAME(object_id) = 'BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase')
  BEGIN TRY
  CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel] ON [BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase]([ObjectId] ASC, [ObjectIdTypeCode] ASC, [ObjectColumnNumber] ASC, [LanguageId] ASC) WITH (FILLFACTOR = 80, MAXDOP = 4, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON, ONLINE = ON)
  END TRY
  BEGIN CATCH
  CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel] ON [BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase]([ObjectId] ASC, [ObjectIdTypeCode] ASC, [ObjectColumnNumber] ASC, [LanguageId] ASC) WITH (FILLFACTOR = 80, MAXDOP = 4, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON)
  END CATCH

• Restore the file MetadataDiffs.xml to its original state using the backup taken at step 1

Source: Error updating Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 0.1