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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Following the recent release of Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and SQL Server 2014 CTP1, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if I could get SharePoint 2013 running on the combination of these two previews. Most of the issues I encountered were around the product installers for SharePoint and the …