After Upgrading to DPM 2012 SP1 SQL Maintenance Tasks are Inaccessible

PROBLEM: Using Microsoft DPM 2012 SP1 with the locally installed SQL 2008 R2 SP2 instance (i.e. the one that DPM installs) once installed, you can’t get into the Maintenance tasks using SQL Management Studio. Clicking on Maintenance Tasks gives you an error: The task with the name “Task Name XXX” and the creation name “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance.DbMaintenanceFileXXXTask, … Read more

The System Administrator Has Set Policies to Prevent This Installation – Windows 2012

Error: Error: “The System Administrator Has Set Policies to Prevent This Installation”, when trying to install a software.” When trying to install an MSI on a server. Solution Browse the registry to HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer  Create: DisableMSI       Type: REG_DWORD  value = 0   (0 should allow you to install it was originally 1) Install … Read more

KMS Activation Fails with Insufficient Activations

PROBLEM: 0xC004F038 The software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. The count reported by your Key Management Service (KMS) is insufficient. Please contact your system administrator. CAUSE: Firstly KMS will not activate anything until it has seen at least 5 clients attempt to activate, so if you have activated less than … Read more

IIS7.5 Can’t Install Tracing into IIS

PROBLEM Attempt to install Tracing for IIS failed with error code 0x80070643. POSSIBLE CAUSE There are a few causes to this problem, in my case I had Shared Configuration setup, if you try to install tracing with shared configuration setup it will fail. This isn’t the only cause so this solution may not work for … Read more

Windows Server 2008 R2 Setup Fails: “setup was unable to create a new system partition”

On a Dell PowerEdge R710 had this error when trying to install Windows Server 2008 R2 Setup.  PROBLEM Fails when selecting the disk: “setup was unable to create a new system partition.” All seems to be fine up until that point then it just fails. Even booting from the Dell utility CD gives the same … Read more