We made a backup of a web application through the central administration to move it to a different server on a different domain and it's a domain controller actually.
So we made a restore operation on the destination server from the central administration but never managed to succeed.
with errors like: Object failed in event OnRestore. For more information, see the spbackup.log or sprestore.log file located in the backup directory.SPException: The specified user or domain group was not found.
I tried every user account possible with no success. any clues?
Two things:
Did you try with "New Configuration" option while restoring? I believe the problem is related to the users/groups added to the site and those users do not exist in new environment!
Also can you try restore using PowerShell with -Force switch parameter and see if that is successfull?
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I want to migrate my multiple sites from one server to another. The source server where all the files are now residing is non WHM/Cpanel based. The target server is WHM/Cpanel based. Previously i used to do transfers using cpanel to cpanel transfers from WHM dashboard but now I am don't know what is the proper way to migrate the files.
Can someone please let me know of any effective way to properly migrate all the files.
If the source server has some panel like DirectAdmin then you may find a script to do so else wise you would need to proceed manual way i.e
create cPanel accounts of all the websites or add as addon domain in a same cPanel account (whatever setup you wish to do).
rsync files into respective home dir of the domain mapped with
dump all the database on the source server and copy on your whm server, further importing in whm database name style. Import one by one.
Make sure you make changes to website config file as per new database name.
When trying to configure the TFS 2010 backup using the TFS Power Tools I kept running into teh following error message:
Account TFS\tfsadmin failed to create backups using path \\tfs-xxxxxxx.local\TFSBackups
The strange thin is that TFS\TFSAdmin has full permissions on both share and file system and that the share path doesn't contain any spaces (thanks for MSDN forums for pointing that out).
I tried backing up through the SQL Server Management Studio, and sure, there the backups fail too.
It turns out that while the backup job is started using the account specified in the Create Backup Wizard of the TFS Power Tools, SQL Server will try to write the files to the share using its own service account.
So in addition to whomever needs access to the share, you need to add the service account running SQL Server to that share as well. In this case it was running under NETWORK SERVICE, so adding MACHINENAME$ to the share's list of permitted users did wonders.
Having a tough time with this issue. Not sure how but my ApplicationPoolIdentity is broken.
Currently I'm running IIS 8 on Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012. When trying to debug an application from Visual Studio, or just navigating to the site in a browser I get the following error logged and a 503 error.
Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool.
If I check out the Application error logs, I find the following error from the User Profile Service.
Windows cannot log you on because your profile cannot be loaded. Check that you are connected to the network, and that your network is functioning correctly.
DETAIL - The system cannot find the path specified.
Upon looking into the details I find that the User Profile Service is trying to load up a profile with the Id
S-1-5-82-3006700770-424185619-1745488364-794895919-4004696415
Now I opened up the registry to try and find the profile with that UserId. However there's nothing in the Profile list that helps.
So digging around a little more I've found that this issue can be resolved by either
A) Set the Load User Profile of the Application Pool to false.
B) Use a different account for the application pool.
C) Fix the account.
Seeing how this is the built in account, I'd prefer to fix the issue rather than fix the sympton.
What I have tried
aspnet_regiis -i
Removing IIS from windows and reinstalling.
Attempted to follow the guide here but I don't know the account password :P
My hunch
Somehow the ApplicationPoolIdentity got messed up. Is there any physical folders for the built-in accounts? I know that the Network and Local service profiles physical directories exist at C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\. It is possible to recreate the ApplicationPoolIdentity profile? Or am I way off on what the real issue is?
C) Here is what i did to fix the account
Go in regedit at key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
There is a setting called "Default". You have to make sure that the data value point to an existing directory on the drive.
By default it contains "%SystemDrive%\Users\Default". In my company the default is changed to a custom profile. Somehow, someone deleted that user profile. So when the defaultAppPool user tryed to create an accound for himself, it was unable to do so because windows cannot provide him with a default user profile.
You can also diagnose this error when looking at the Event Viewer under the Application folder. You will get a message of that type:
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a
temporary profile. changes you make to this profile will be lost when
you log off.
I've deployed in Windows Azure a website made with Umbraco, using
Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco.
For development and test i used a test Hostname. Now it's time to switch to the official DNS hostname..
How can I change current hostname?
Actually i configured hostname at deployment time (the only way i know to do this) but i can't deploy again, since many files have been changed working on website on Azure.
EDIT
Let me explain: at the step prompt in the image (during web site deploying) I used as Domain Name "test.mywebsite.com", and configured real DNS.
Now the website is configured, so I'd like to make mywebsite.com point to that site;
But is'nt enough if i configure mywebsite DNS! Shall I deploy again? An will I lose any of the changes I made?
I'd like to make two comments on your question:
1) In order to host your Azure application under a custom host name, you will need to sign up with a DNS provider that supports C-NAME records (most do). I suggest someone like GoDaddy.com because by default C-NAME records can only resolve your "www.domainname.com" records and cannot do anything for queries where "www." is dropped from the URL. DNS providers like GoDaddy also have an option to redirect all traffic destined for "domainname.com" to a URL of your choice. This is a huge deal for Azure apps. Frankly speaking, it is somewhat disappointing that for all the PaaS and IaaS features of Azure, DNS was not included in the overall package.
2) I am a little worried when you say that you can no longer redeploy your app due to the changes made. Can you elaborate on that? Have you made changes to the application's code running on VM's in Azure without going through redeployment process? If so, this is a huge no-no. Your VM's running in Azure are not "permanent". Microsoft and your redeployment process can (and will) re-stage those VM's to the original package at any given time. Microsoft will re-image your VM's at least once a month during their monthly OS upgrades. But they can also do so when they need to move your VM to another rack, etc. Whatever changes that you make to your app must be either stored in source-control before deployment or in a permanent storage facility like SQL Azure, Azure Storage, etc.
HTH
Finally i think that the answers to my questions are:
-Shall I deploy again? Yes, i must deploy again
-Will I lose any of the changes I made? Many changes will be mantained since are stored into DB. But I have to do many activities to make new website work!
This answer confirms my theory:
In my case, I created and uploaded a site with a name, let's say
http://www.contoso.com and then paid a domain from a registrar let's say
http://www.example.com, when I mapped
http://MyAcceleratorsService.cloudapp.net/ to my new domain
( http://www.example.com ) and tried to open that domain I got the home page of
the Accelerator and not the uploaded site.
I had to upload the site again to Azure (using UploadUmbracoSite.cmd
from Accelerator application) and when uploading enter the same domain
name as the one I registered: http://www.example.com. Then, I was able to
browse my uploaded site as expected.
As for your question, will upload site again using
UploadUmbracoSite.cmd (is in the Setup folder) and will enter the new
domain name when requested.
Exactly what I was trying to avoid.. but the only solution, i suppose.
Well it was not easy to publish again, i got errors of many type (i suppose tied to some components that i've installed after deploy and that are not installed in new deployed website).. i'm going to solve them.
Edit
Completed my work:
- loads of different attempts, no-one worked
- CTP backup of DB
- deleted DB and website
- new full deploy of umbraco
- CTP restore of DB
finally:
-all work on content is OK
-all work on styles, pages, templates is lost
Changing hostname is hard; dont'use test hostname but definitive hostname from the beginning.
If anyone has suggest, i'll be pleased to test it, anyway
This is not really an answer to your question, but it might be a solution to your problem: Use a CNAME record to make the production DNS name point to your development name. E.g. www.productionname.com will the point to www.testname.com. I am not sure if everything will just work out of the box, but it seems to be worth a try.
This requires, that your hosting provider allows you to set up CNAME records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record
What considerations should be addressed when moving a Microsoft 2003 server with MSMQ installed to another domain?
We assigned permissions to the queue for a user account from the new domain. We still get an error "Access to Message Queing system is denied."
There are no other servers in the new domain running MSMQ. Is there an Active Directory object that gets created when MSMQ is installed on a member server?
The issue has been resolved. The problem was with a private queue created by our application. That explains why we didn't see any AD object created. Using domain admin credentials, we tried to modify the permissions on the private queue using the MMC snapin. We got an error and could not make the required change because the domain admin was not on the ACL for that queue. We found a work around to the problem. We created a new temporary private queue and assigned full control to the user account we need for our application. We located the newly created private queue configuration file in the \system32\msmq\storage\lqs directory. We opened the file and copied the entire security line. Then we opened the configuration file for the private queue we are trying to fix and pasted the security line over the same line in that file. We saved the configuration file. We restarted the MSMQ service and then started our application service. The application could now function properly. Thanks everyone for your help!
If the domain is in a different forest and you wish to make use of public queues, etc. then you will need to reinstall MSMQ so that all the MSMQ objects are created in AD.
What exact operation generates "Access to Message Queing system is denied."?
If you don't have any messages or journal history that you need to save, I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling MSMQ.
Have you logged into the server directly using the account that is trying to send the message? This is necessary to establish a message queuing certificate, a little understood and poorly documented area of MSMQ.
We also found another easier way to reset the permissions on the private queue. Instead of modifying the private queue configuration file, we took ownership of the private queue as the domain admin, assigned full permissions to the user account needed for our application, and transfered ownership to the same user. This restored the private queue to the state it was in prior to the server move.