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A few cases have come up this week and I wanted to shed some light on 400 errors that you may receive from the FIM CM Bulk issuance Client Error 404 This normally results from the IIS server hosting the FIM CM CertificateManagement website not allowing Double Escape Sequences. Doule Escape Sequences...

Are you a Windows Phone 8 developer using Visual Studio 2012 and have you downloaded and upgraded your Windows 8 machine to Windows 8.1 Preview?. When trying to run the Windows Phone 8 emulator from Visual Studio 2012 , you might notice an issue which restricts you to run the Emulator because...

Issue In a certain situation, an exception is thrown, " A Content Type Which Does Not Belong To A Collection Cannot be Updated ", when adding columns to a content type programmatically. Doing a walk through of the code reveals the problem; a new content type was instantiated, then some...

By: Brenton Blawat Table of Contents User Security Identifiers Now in the Sys.SysLogins Correcting SID Issues NetBIOS Based Windows Authentication Only Workarounds for Domain Authentication See Also Systems Administrators around the world have been baffled by security changes with SQL Server...

A common question from Helpdesk admins concerns how to troubleshoot issues with MED-V applications. More specifically, how can we allow remote Helpdesk admins to access the Full Desktop in the VM on the user's machine as needed for troubleshooting. There are a couple different ways to approach...

While reporting is technically an optional feature of MED-V version 1.0, it is valuable in tracking errors, client events, and workspace usage statistics. You may encounter issues at various stages of setting up and using the reporting feature. I have composed a list of issues you may encounter when...

Here are some common errors related to IIS and BITS that you may encounter when uploading and downloading images from an image distribution server. Table of Contents 1. When you attempt to upload a packed image to an image distribution server within the MED-V management console, you may get the...

Do you work in multi-server MED-V environments? Do you currently have a MED-V development environment as well as a production environment? Will you be preparing images in a lab and then pre-staging images in production? If so then chances are you probably ran into the following error: Failed to...

If you are using the Disk Commander tool in the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset window, you cannot select the Bootable check box in the Restore Volumes window by using your keyboard. Solution If you are using only your keyboard when you run Disk Commander , you can switch to the Computer Management...

In some cases, Disk Commander will report more volumes than were actually deleted. This can be because data blocks in the specified location appeared to be valid partitions. Typically, these false partitions are much smaller than the actual volume that you want to recover.

Because of the design of Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), you can only access an encrypted recovery image by typing in the recovery key. Solution If you are trying to boot into a DaRT recovery image that is BitLocker encrypted, you must manually enter the BitLocker recovery key...

When you create the DaRT recovery image, you can include additional drivers by specifying the required files for each driver that you want to include. By default, when you select a Setup Information file (INF) from a particular folder, all additional files and subfolders that are located in that folder...

When you run the DaRT Recovery Image Wizard as a different user and try to add more files to the recovery image, you might receive an error message if you do not have permissions to access the other user's Temp folder. Solution If you decide to run the wizard as a different user, we recommend...

Troubleshooting content is not included in the help content for Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 7 (DaRT 7). Instead, troubleshooting information for DaRT 7 can be found here on the TechNet Wiki. How to Find Troubleshooting Information Use the guidance that follows to find troubleshooting...

Sometimes, Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) automatically runs Startup Repair when you boot into DaRT. This issue typically occurs if WinRE detects or suspects that Windows 7 shut down incorrectly the last time that it was started. The exact moment that Startup Repair starts to run in this situation...

Hello everybody. I have the following problem with MBAM installation. First of all let me tell what is the configuration: 2 Windows 2008 R2 servers, both in domain environment. No firewalls. First one is with IIS and MBAM Administration console is installed there. The port used for the...

Issue: When you select on Hardware in MBAM Console, you may receive the following error messages: Data store request not completed OR Data store communication failure Resolution: To resolve this issue please follow the steps in the below KB. ...

Customers have been experiencing some pain with installing the Hardware and Recovery DB. The Transparent Data Encryption feature of SQL Server 2008 must be enabled for the Hardware and Recovery DB to install successfully. The documentation to date is missing this requirement. While we're fixing...

Issue: When a user clicks on MBAM Reports he might see the below error: "An error has occurred during Report Processing (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot impersonate user for Data Source "MaltaDataSource" (rsErrorImpersonatingUser). Log on failed: Ensure the...

Issue: MBAM Setup fails adding SID to MBAM Groups. Note: SID name will be different in your case, since SID is of user who is running the MBAM Setup Program. When we execute MBAM Setup on a server, it fails with one of below 3 scenarios. Scenario 1: MBAM setup log file...

Issue: Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) Recovery and Hardware Service.svclog and ComplianceStatusService.svclog grows rapidly and fills the entire disk space where MBAM Admin & Monitoring Server Role is installed. Resolution: Please follow...

<repost from Windows Server Core Team Blog here > Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “MBAM Setup fails with SQL TDE Error message” Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) provide...

Issue: When Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) tries to initialize TPM, on some machines you may see the below error message. Error BitLocker drive encryption has a problem and must close. BitLocker will close now. Contact the help desk of your company...

Troubleshooting content is not included in the help content for Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). Instead, troubleshooting information for Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring can be found here on the TechNet Wiki. How to Find Troubleshooting Information Use...

If you are running Microsoft App-V in what is now referred to as a traditional App-V Server-based infrastructure, desktop configuration is controlled by an App-V Management Server. Depending on local client configuration and provider policy, the client will periodically refresh its configuration against...