It was great to see that the Windows Admin Center is now being updated automatically with other Windows Server OS updates when I updated the server on which it is installed the other day: One fewer thing to have to check for manually!

As I blogged yesterday, I upgraded our instance of Azure AD Connect to what was, at the time, the latest version, 1.1.524.0. Subsequently, Microsoft Security Advisory 4033453 was published indicating that an upgrade to version 1.1.533.0 was very strongly recommended. As before, the upgrade went smoothly, however there …

I was recently performing a SharePoint 2013 to 2016 farm upgrade and noticed an interesting issue when performing tests on content databases to be migrated to the new system. As part of the migration of a content database, it’s usual to perform a ‘Test-SPContentDatabase’ operation against each database before attaching …

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

The latest firmware for the Dell PERC H200 still doesn’t support SATA disks of greater than 2.2TB. In fact the card cannot even detect SATA drives that are larger than this. As the PERC H200 is essentially a rebadged LSI 9211-8i card however, the firmware and BIOS from that card can be flashed onto the PERC H200 to …

During a recent SharePoint upgrade using the database attach method, I saw the following recorded in the upgrade error log: [powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [INFO] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: SPSite Url=http://intranet.domain.com [powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [WARNING] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: …