As with previous versions of BizTalk Server, you can perform the installation using the GUI or a command-line. To use the command-line installation, you’ll need the list of features that can be installed to add to the /AddLocal command-line. The available documentation for a silent installation of BizTalk Server at …

Previous versions of Visual Studio were typically delivered via ISO files that we could import into Configuration Manager for deployment to workstations. Visual Studio 2017 arrives as a web installer only (although you can create installation media using the –layout option from the command line if you still want to go …

I was recently in the position that I needed to rebuild a workstation at a remote location, but wanted to end up with it joined to the domain, and able to install software via the SCCM Software Center. Enter Offline Domain Join (djoin.exe)! Offline Domain Join allows the creation of a machine account and the …

Attempting to add protection to a Windows 10 Anniversary Edition workstation recently failed with the DPM server showing the workstation as ‘unavailable’ when looking at the ‘Production Servers’ list in the console. It appears that the upgrade to Anniversary Edition removes a file that the DPM agent relies on, …

Following a ‘hiccup’, involving a Web Application Proxy (WAP) server, internal services were no longer being published to the outside world. After some investigation, both the ADFS and WAP services showed as stopped on the server. Attempting to start the ADFS service from the services console produced the following …

I recently came across an issue relating to crawling people information in SharePoint and the use of crawl rules to exclude certain content. The issue revolved around a requirement to exclude content contained within peoples’ MySites, but include user profile information so that people searches could still be …

Consider the following scenario: You have WSUS installed on either Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 You install KB3159706 In this situation, WSUS fails to start correctly and thus fails to function. There are additional steps that are required to configure this update once it is installed. The steps can be found in …

If you use SharePoint, you’ll know that some mechanism to wake up the hosted sites after the application pools are recycled overnight is very helpful (essential even) for the end user experience. I’ve compiled a version of SPWakeUp for SharePoint 2016, which can be downloaded from …

Microsoft recently made a hotfix available that patches WSUS on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 to allow Windows 10 upgrade to version 1511. Installing the update is not, however, the only step that is required… Install the hotfix. This can be downloaded from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3095113. Ensure that …

I saw a issue recently on an Exchange server after the certificate used to secure SMTP and IIS services was changed as the old certificate was about to expire. The original default certificate that is self-generated had been replaced with one from a certificate authority. This had been used for several years without …