December | 2017 | Wim's System Center blog

Azure Interactives

10:46 am in Azure, Azure Interactives, Cloud by Wim Matthyssen

Azure is a growing collection of integrated services that IT professionals and developers can use to build, deploy or manage applications in the cloud. With so many services now available, most of the time it is somewhat of a challenge to find the right information. To help you have a clear overview, Microsoft has released a new beta webpage, the Azure Interactives, which will guide and introduce you to all the various services that are available on Azure.

From this interactive page, you can easily navigate to the three experiences listed below, to display and find all information you want.

Azure Products

From here, you can easily select a specific Azure product and find all information, documentation and pricing links about it.

Cloud design patterns

This page will give you architecture guidance and lists common problems and patterns for your cloud applications.

Azure security + operations management

This page will give you a guide on how to efficiently manage and protect your Azure and on-premises resources.

Have fun checking this all out.

Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen)

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MABS v2: Unable to install DPM Remote Administration console on a W2K8 R2 SP1 server because mi.dll is missing

9:32 am in Azure, Azure Backup, Azure Backup Server, DPM Remote Administration, mi.dll, Microsoft Azure Backup Server, Microsoft Azure Backup Server v2, PowerShell, WMF 5.1 by Wim Matthyssen

While installing the DPM Remote Administrator console on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (W2K8 R2 SP1) for remote administration of a customers Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) v2, I stumbled upon the below error message, which resulted in the setup being aborted:

The Program can’t start because mi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

This error shows up because one of the following requirements is not installed: Windows Management Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 4.0 or Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4

needs to be installed to be able to deploy the DPM Remote Administration console on a W2K8 R2 server.

To fix the issue, I checked if all latest Windows Updates were installed. Afterwards I installed the Windows Management Framework 5.1 (WMF 5.1), .NET Framework 4.0 and the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 on the W2K8 R2 SP1 server, which can be downloaded from the link above. To ease up and to automate the installation, you can use the below PowerShell script (copy and/or save as .ps1) to get things downloaded somewhat faster.

##--------------------------------------------------------------------

## Name Windows Management Framework 5.1, .NET Framework 4.0 and VSU 4 Automated

## Usage Windows_Management_Framework_4.0_and_NET_Framework.4.0_VSU_4_Automated_v1.0.ps1

## Note Change variables were needed to fit your needs

## Creator Wim Matthyssen

## Date 08/12/17

## Version 1

##-------------------------------------------------------------------


## Requires -RunAsAdministrator


## Variables

$wmfx64Url = 'https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/F/5/6F5FF66C-6775-42B0-86C4-47D41F2DA187/Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3191566-x64.zip'

$dotNet4Url ='https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/B/E/1BE39E79-7E39-46A3-96FF-047F95396215/dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe'

$vsu4Url ='https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/B/16B06F60-3B20-4FF2-B699-5E9B7962F9AE/VSU_4/vcredist_x64.exe'

$tempFolder = 'C:\Temp'

$foregroundColor1 = 'Red'

$foregroundColor2 = 'Yellow'

$wmf5MsuZip = 'C:\Temp\Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3191566-x64.zip'

$dotNet4exe = 'C:\Temp\dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe'

$vsu4exe = 'C:\Temp\vcredist_x64.exe'


## Set the PowerShell execution policy to RemoteSigned

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned


## Set date/time variable and write blank lines

$global:currenttime= Set-PSBreakpoint -Variable currenttime -Mode Read -Action { $global:currenttime= Get-Date }

for ($i = 1; $i -lt 4; $i++) {write-host}

Write-Host "Download started" $currenttime -foregroundcolor $foregroundColor1

## Create Temp folder on C: if not exists

If(!(test-path $tempFolder))

{

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $tempFolder

Write-Host 'Temp folder created' -foregroundcolor $foregroundColor2

}


## Download and save WMF 5.1 to C:\Temp

function AllJobs-wmf5Msu{

Import-Module BitsTransfer

Start-BitsTransfer -Source $wmfx64Url -Destination $wmf5MsuZip

}

AllJobs-wmf5Msu


## Extract WMF 5.1

$shell = New-Object -ComObject shell.application

$zip = $shell.NameSpace($wmf5MsuZip)

foreach ($item in $zip.items()) {

$shell.Namespace($tempFolder).CopyHere($item)

}

Remove-Item $wmf5MsuZip

Write-Host 'Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3191566-x64.msu and Install-WMF5.1.ps1 available' $currenttime -foregroundcolor $ForegroundColor2


## Download and save .NEt Framework 4.0 to C:\Temp

function AllJobs-dotNet4exe{

Import-Module BitsTransfer

Start-BitsTransfer -Source $dotNet4Url -Destination $dotNet4exe

Write-Host 'Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu available' $currenttime -foregroundcolor $ForegroundColor2

}

AllJobs-dotNet4exe


## Download and save Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 to C:\Temp

function AllJobs-vcredist{

Import-Module BitsTransfer

Start-BitsTransfer -Source $vsu4Url -Destination $vsu4exe

Write-Host 'vcredist_x64.exe available' $currenttime -foregroundcolor $ForegroundColor2

}

AllJobs-vcredist


## Open C:\Temp folder

ii C:\Temp


## Close PowerShell windows upon completion

stop-process -Id $PID

Write-Host "Close PowerShell window" -foregroundcolor "Red"

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##--------------------------------------------------------------------

## Name Windows Management Framework 5.1, .NET Framework 4.0 and VSU 4 Automated

## Usage Windows_Management_Framework_4.0_and_NET_Framework.4.0_VSU_4_Automated_v1.0.ps1

## Note Change variables were needed to fit your needs

## Creator Wim Matthyssen

## Date 08/12/17

## Version 1

##-------------------------------------------------------------------

## Requires -RunAsAdministrator

## Variables

$wmfx64Url = 'https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/F/5/6F5FF66C-6775-42B0-86C4-47D41F2DA187/Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3191566-x64.zip'

$dotNet4Url ='https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/B/E/1BE39E79-7E39-46A3-96FF-047F95396215/dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe'

$vsu4Url ='https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/B/16B06F60-3B20-4FF2-B699-5E9B7962F9AE/VSU_4/vcredist_x64.exe'

$tempFolder = 'C:\Temp'

$foregroundColor1 = 'Red'

$foregroundColor2 = 'Yellow'

$wmf5MsuZip = 'C:\Temp\Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3191566-x64.zip'

$dotNet4exe = 'C:\Temp\dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe'

$vsu4exe = 'C:\Temp\vcredist_x64.exe'

## Set the PowerShell execution policy to RemoteSigned

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

## Set date/time variable and write blank lines

$global:currenttime= Set-PSBreakpoint -Variable currenttime -Mode Read -Action { $global:currenttime= Get-Date }

for ($i = 1; $i -lt 4; $i++) {write-host}

Write-Host "Download started" $currenttime -foregroundcolor $foregroundColor1

## Create Temp folder on C: if not exists

If(!(test-path $tempFolder))

{

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $tempFolder

Write-Host 'Temp folder created' -foregroundcolor $foregroundColor2

}

## Download and save WMF 5.1 to C:\Temp

function AllJobs-wmf5Msu{

Import-Module BitsTransfer

Start-BitsTransfer -Source $wmfx64Url -Destination $wmf5MsuZip

}

AllJobs-wmf5Msu

## Extract WMF 5.1

$shell = New-Object -ComObject shell.application

$zip = $shell.NameSpace($wmf5MsuZip)

foreach ($item in $zip.items()) {

$shell.Namespace($tempFolder).CopyHere($item)

}

Remove-Item $wmf5MsuZip

Write-Host 'Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3191566-x64.msu and Install-WMF5.1.ps1 available' $currenttime -foregroundcolor $ForegroundColor2

## Download and save .NEt Framework 4.0 to C:\Temp

function AllJobs-dotNet4exe{

Import-Module BitsTransfer

Start-BitsTransfer -Source $dotNet4Url -Destination $dotNet4exe

Write-Host 'Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu available' $currenttime -foregroundcolor $ForegroundColor2

}

AllJobs-dotNet4exe

## Download and save Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 to C:\Temp

function AllJobs-vcredist{

Import-Module BitsTransfer

Start-BitsTransfer -Source $vsu4Url -Destination $vsu4exe

Write-Host 'vcredist_x64.exe available' $currenttime -foregroundcolor $ForegroundColor2

}

AllJobs-vcredist

## Open C:\Temp folder

ii C:\Temp

## Close PowerShell windows upon completion

stop-process -Id $PID

Write-Host "Close PowerShell window" -foregroundcolor "Red"

##-------------------------------------------------------------------

When the C:\Temp folder opens after the downloads, run Install-WMF5.1.ps1. (PowerShell window with Administrator privileges) to install WMF 5.1