Connect Page Error Essentials 2016 Upgrade

mslogoThis post comes as a follow up to this thread opened in the TechNet forum.

It seems after an in place upgrade from Essentials 2012 R2 that some things don’t function as expected.

When you visit http://server/connect you are presented with an error.

connect error

Viewing the same path from the server desktop you get the corresponding error.

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Windows Server 2012 Essentials : After Transmog SILSVC Error

TransmogBack in November, a chap in the Forum had dipped his toe into the world of Transmogging, and encountered an error that was being thrown up in the logs after the process had completed.

The SILSVC should be started automatically but it is stopped.

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Quick Fix : Installation Cancelled : Installing SBS 2011 Essentials Connector

sbsessI was working on a Windows XP system last week, and joining it to an SBS Essentials domain, the connector installed with no issues at all. Read more of this post

Nonpaged Pool Resource Allocation Error (SRV Error 2019)

I currently have a clients server that every so often experiences a condition where it stops responding to network requests.

You can still ping the server, and it still processes some basic commands, like a shutdown command, but it does not allow browsing files or folders, and you cannot RDP to the server. You will also be unable to launch applications if you manage to logon to the server locally.

You may have experienced a similar condition after regaining access to the server you will most likely see that the System log is full of Errors. In my experience this will be Event ID 2019, Source, SRV.

The Server was unable to allocate from the system Nonpaged pool because the pool was empty.

I have seen this occur on Servers and Workstations, there are a lot of fixes suggested online, but so far Read more of this post