Some time ago I created an System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) application to deploy FileZilla for users. Recently I created an updated application that upgraded FileZilla (using the usual ‘uninstall the old version, then install the new version’ method), which gave me an error when the application was upgraded: …

There’s a known issue with Update Rollup 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 that stops expired recovery points being removed, thus leading (eventually) to DPM consuming all available disk space attached to it. This leads to messages such as: and Which mean that new recovery points are not being created …

As with all systems using certificates for security, there comes a time when the certificate is expiring and needs to be replaced. here’s the procedure for ADFS 3.0 and WAP: Starting with the ADFS server: Log onto the ADFS server. Add the new certificate to the server. Make sure this is added to the personal …

Following the installation of the November 2014 OS updates and the updated DPM agent (to update rollup 4) onto a number of servers, I saw failures when attempting to perform a backup of SQL Server 2012 databases hosted on Windows Server 2012. These manifested as ‘replica is inconsistent’ in the DPM console: On the …

Background Traditionally the approach to multiple SSL IIS websites hosted on a server involved multiple sites each with its own certificate bound to a single IP address/port combination. If you didn’t mind using non standard SSL ports, then you could use a single IP address on the server, but the experience was not …

Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 at home, I’ve had issues with backing up the computer using my Home Server (not that I helped by introducing a GPT disk and a UEFI rig at the same time…). The symptoms were that the client backup process appeared stuck at 1% progress for a long time before eventually failing. I finally …

During a recent upgrade of ADFS from 2.0 to 3.0, we saw an interesting issue publishing the ADFS 3.0 proxy through TMG 2010. The ADFS 2.0 proxy was published via TMG using a non-preauthenticating publishing web rule which had worked happily since ADFS was first used. When ADFS 3.0 was installed ad configured, the …

There seems to be an issue installing Workflow Manager 1.0 refresh on Windows Server 2012 R2. Upon completion, when clicking through to configure Workflow Manager, you are informed that neither Service Bus 1.0, nor (obviously) CU1 for Service Bus 1.0 has been installed. Digging into the event log on the machine in …

Our recent upgrade of Data Protection Manager (DPM) from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2 generated one issue which wasn’t mentioned by the documentation on Technet. The documentation on Technet is good and the procedure for upgrading DPM was very quick and easy. Pay attention to the Upgrade Sequencing documentation as not …

I recently ran into an issue importing some virtual machines that had been used with SCVMM into Hyper-V. I needed to export the virtual machines for use with a development environment while still leaving the originals where they were in SCVMM. The procedure I was using was: Shut down the virtual machines to be exported …