{"id":2544,"date":"2017-04-11T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2017-04-11T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:16:16","slug":"configmgr-1702-primary-site-server-inplace-upgrade-from-server-2012-r2-to-server-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"ConfigMgr 1702 &#8211; Primary Site Server Inplace Upgrade from Server 2012 R2 to Server 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let me say: This is an unsupported scenario<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I decided to do an in place upgrade of my LAB Installation, which means to switch from Microsoft Server 2012 R2 to Server 2016 as operating System. Before I started that upgrade, I made sure to have a proper backup of the database and the cd.latest Folder, because this is a single box installation.<br \/>\nThen I mounted the Server 2016 ISO and started with the installation. The installation itself took quite a while, but it ran through without an error. When I saw that the virtual machine was ready to logon, I actually tried to use RDP, without success. I then logged on through the Hyper-V Console and checked the System Center Configuration Manager Console, and for my surprise, the console started up and had also no error.<br \/>\nI checked the Component status and recognized a lot of issues, which led me to check the IIS Service (World Wide Web Publishing Service; W3SVC). This Service was not started, the startup type was on &#8220;Disabled&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I then set the startup Type to &#8220;Automatic&#8221; and tried to start the service manually, but without success. I could not start the service, because the depending service &#8220;Windows Process Activation Service&#8221; was on disabled as well, and therefore not started. When I had started the depending service, I was able to start IIS too.<\/p>\n<p>After that I was checking the component monitor again and the &#8220;SMS_REST_PROVIDER&#8221; could not be started, or more detailed, ConfigMgr was unable to reinstall this component. The following error message was within the logs:<br \/>\nThe program failed for the following reason: Failed to install the VC redistributable.<br \/>\nI tried several things, but I was not able to resolve this error, until I installed both versions (x64 and x86) of the vcredist within the cd.Latest Folder. Afterwards everything seemed to work fine: Clients received Software, WSUS could sync (I was required to finish the role setup), the reports were working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me say: This is an unsupported scenario Today I decided to do an in place upgrade of my LAB Installation, which means to switch from Microsoft Server 2012 R2 to Server 2016 as operating System. Before I started that upgrade, I made sure to have a proper backup of the database and the cd.latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-configmgr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hosebei.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}