Windows 2016 or Windows 10 fail to perform an in-place upgrade

When performing a Windows Server 2012 in-place upgrade to Windows Server 2016, and you get an error pops up saying just that the upgrade has failed, the first thing to do is look at the logs.

Location of the Windows Server 2016 in-place upgrade: C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\panther\setupact.log

More info regarding log files that are created when you upgrade to a new version of Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/928901/log-files-that-are-created-when-you-upgrade-to-a-new-version-of-window

If you got these two errors below, we have the solution for you.

Error    MOUPG CDlpActionProductKeyValidate::ReportDownlevelInstallChannel(2896): Result = 0x80070490[gle=0x00000002]

Error    MOUPG ProductKey: Failed to report Host OS channel to telemetry.[gle=0x00000002]

The system was not able to mount the WIM file, so what can be preventing this to happen?

A filter driver could be causing this error. To find the filter driver, run this:

fltmc filters


CBFLTFS4 is a CallBackFilter develped by Eldos.


According to Eldos:
Callback File System (CBFS) lets you create virtual file systems and disks that expose and manage remote data as if these data were files on the local disk.

Callback File System is an SDK (software development kit, a component for use in software development) for Windows® platform.

We have it in our remote application host server because we have installed Liquidware Labs’ ProfileUnity.

SOLUTION
We need to temporarily disable this filter driver.

  1. In order to do that we need to change the registry key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\cbfltfs4
    Value: Start
    Type: REG_DWORD
    To: 4

  2. Restart the machine

You can also run this command line:

Disable
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cbfltfs4 /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

Enable Startup automatically (To run after the machine is upgraded)

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cbfltfs4 /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Reference: Charlie Chang Blog

March 26, 2018 Microsoft, Operative System, Upgrade, Windows Server Comments Off on Windows 2016 or Windows 10 fail to perform an in-place upgrade
Skype for Business Monitoring Reports

Modifying Lync Server 2013 or Skype for Business 2015 Monitoring Reports URLs on the Control Panel

After moving the Skype for Business Monitoring Reports to a new SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) instance on another server, everything was working, but I was still seeing the old server and the new links to the Reporting Service on the Control Panel under “View Monitoring reports”.

So I add to remove the old Monitoring report server and edit the new one with the correct link page.

To do that I add made the following step:

  1. To check the configuration:

    Get-CsReportingConfiguration

    (For Lync Server 2010 “Get-CsService -MonitoringServer | Select-Object Identity”)

  2. Identify the old monitoring server and run:

    Remove-CsReportingConfiguration –identify “Service:….”

  3. Check that the old server is now removed:

    Get-CsReportingConfiguration

  4. Edit the new server with the desired configurations:

    Set-CsMonitoringServer -Identity ” Service:….”” -ReportingUrl “https://server.[domain]/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/LyncServerReports/Reports%20Home%20Page”

Now you can see that I only have one link under the “View Monitoring reports” and it works with the correct link.

skype for business server 2015 control panel

Hope this helps you, and if you need some help, just contact us.

March 26, 2018 Microsoft, PowerShell, Skype for Business Comments Off on Modifying Lync Server 2013 or Skype for Business 2015 Monitoring Reports URLs on the Control Panel

Windows 10 Stuck on Welcome Screen

If your computer was working perfectly until the last week, and now you get stuck on the welcome screen, whenever you reboot the computer, or the computer goes into sleep mode!?  This means that you have installed some nasty quality windows updates that are making your computer stop responding.

Are you getting crazy with this bug!? I was!!!

March 19, 2018 Bug, Microsoft, Windows 10, Windows Updates, Workstations Comments Off on Windows 10 Stuck on Welcome Screen

Search message tracking logs

Message tracking records the message activity as mail flows through the transport pipeline on Mailbox servers and Edge Transport servers. You can use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to search for entries in the message tracking log by using specific search criteria. For example:

  • Find out what happened to a message that was sent by a user to a specific recipient.
  • Find out if a transport rule acted on a message.
  • Find out if a message sent from an Internet sender made it into your Exchange organization.
  • Find all messages sent by a specified user during a specified time period.

This example searches the message tracking logs on the local server for all entries from 2/20/2018 8:00 AM to 2/20/2015 5:00 PM for all FAIL events where the message sender was sender@mutega.se

Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “2/20/2018 8:00AM” -End “2/20/2018 5:00PM” -EventId “Fail” -Sender “sender@mutega.se”

This example searches the message tracking logs on the local server for all entries from 2/20/2018 8:00 AM to 2/20/2015 5:00 PM for all emails sent to to@mutega.com where the message sender was sender@mutega.se

Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “2/20/2018 8:00AM” -End “2/20/2018 5:00PM” -EventId “Fail” -Sender “sender@mutega.se” -Recipients “to@mutega.com”

More info (Source article): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124926%28v=exchg.160%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

February 21, 2018 Exchange, Microsoft, PowerShell Comments Off on Search message tracking logs

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