In recent versions of K2 installer team introduced a feature which blocks installation in case of critical failure leaving you no choice but address the issue and perform repair. It basically blocks all the other options leaving you with Recover as an only available option as shown below: This option is here for a reason … K2 5.4 How to opt out from Setup Manager’s “Recover” state
Although my keep steep drop in amount of K2 posts from my side with more than high probability in the future, I’m keep jotting little things for now. The other day I was a bit perplexed by K2 Platform Classic setup manager which blocked me from adjusting K2 service account like that: What it actually … K2 5.4 Setup Manager – unable to change K2 Service Account
When you run current versions of K2 Setup Manager it saves trace file in %temp%\K2 Setup Log directory and you may also find trace files in your K2 installation directory in Setup\Log subfolder. Trace files which you can find there named InstallerTraceDDMMYYY_N.log. Quite often it is necessary to confirm what mode (Install, Upgrade, Configure, Repair) … How to identify type of K2 Setup Manager run mode based on installer trace
Once in a while you can bump into a warning from K2 Setup Manager which says: “The selected user needs to have Domain Users privileges to proceed” on K2 Site Application Pool Configuration which looks as shown below: I was not able to confirm what exactly triggers this, but I do know that it happens … K2 Setup Manager: The selected user needs to have Domain Users privileges to proceed
So with new wave of releases from Microsoft we now have Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 amongst other things, and depending on what you do you may be more excited about one or another of these two. But what is common between VS 2015 and Windows 10 they all come with .NET 4.6. There … .NET 4.6 & K2 blackpearl Setup Manager
