How To: Re-configure your K2 environment to use forms authentication
This blog post is just a short walk-through explaining how to switch your K2 environment from Windows to Forms authentication. Just to provide you an example of when you may want this – you can use...
View ArticleK2 Setup Manager – MSDTC is not configured correctly
The other day I’ve been doing installation of K2 4.7 on standalone (i.e. non-joined to domain) Windows Server 2016 machine with SQL Server installed locally on the same box, and bump into MSDT Network...
View ArticleK2 Setup Manager: The selected user needs to have Domain Users privileges to...
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...
View ArticleGetting "The server is not licensed (MachineName: , MachineCode: )." in K2...
I recently run into interesting issue with K2 4.7 – non working K2 Designer was displaying the following error: The server is not licensed (MachineName: , MachineCode: ). (values for Machine Name and...
View ArticleError on K2 service startup – 2010 Type Load Error, Method 'get_DisplayName'...
This is a bit of a blast from the past type of post, but I would write about this anyway. In 4.6.11 you may observe the following error logged on K2 service startup:...
View ArticleHow to identify type of K2 Setup Manager run mode based on installer trace
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...
View ArticleHow to identify an empty K2 role
In some scenarios you may have empty K2 roles with no users added, and in the past it was possible to create new role in K2 Management without adding any users into it or delete all users from the role...
View ArticleK2 5.4 Setup Manager – unable to change K2 Service Account
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...
View ArticleK2 5.4 How to opt out from Setup Manager’s “Recover” state
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...
View ArticleUnable to run SharePoint 2019 installer when Office 365 is installed on the...
I recently spend some days having fun with good old on premise software and it really makes one appreciate infra as a code and provisioning everything in the cloud, fast. 🙂 The problem is that most of...
View ArticleRemoving K2 node from K2 farm
Just a quick note on removal of a node(s) from K2 servers farm. When you run K2 uninstall on one of the nodes, and obviously when you suddenly lose one of your nodes (server failure without ability to...
View ArticleBlast from the past: Configure K2 SmartForms for AAD Authentication (4.7)
DISCLAIMER: This is a post which used to be published on another web site, and as it is no longer available there just re-publishing it here again. It is an old write up from summer 2017, so a lot of...
View ArticleUnable to install SQL Server 2019 – SQL Install Error: The MOF compiler could...
The other day I was doing K2 5.5 installation on top of Windows Server 2019 and somehow that install beat all the records in terms of weird issues I run into, and even after re-provisioning server and...
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