Blogs with content referred to by this blog: Install Afaria Server Install Afaria API Service and Administrator Install Self Service Portal Install Enrollment Server Install Package Server Validation of Afaria 7 SP6 Afaria 7 SP6 update Afaria 7 SP6 is available as of 11. September 2015 and can be downloaded Read more…
After updating from SP5 to SP6 it is a good idea to check that Afaria is capable to start and runs without errors. For a very basic check of the server, see here some examples on how to do this. Check that all Afaria services are up and running Check Read more…
As always, select the DB type, server and db name of Afaria.
Next component to be updated is the enromment server. Select the DB type. Select where the DB server is running. In case the setup program can connect to the DB server, it will show a list of databases available to the user. Select the Afaria DB. In case an error Read more…
Next component to be updated is the Self Service Portal. This will update the web site hosted by IIS. Confirm the user credentials used to connect to the API server. Possible error: API server cannot be reached Solution: check if API server is up and running If not, start the Read more…
The upgrade of the API service and administrator console is listed as one step, but will be executed as two steps: 1st the API service and directly afterwards the Administrator console As both are bound together, you cannot install the admin console separately. As the API service is installed first, Read more…
Start the Afaria Server update. First agree to the license agreement, of course, only when you have read the license and agree to it. Afaria server update starts. First the currently running server service is stopped. The setup program will stop the Afaria services. In case this is not possible, Read more…
When you install Afaria 7 or access it the first time, it`s likely that you`ll get into some problems. I`ve collected here some more or less common issues that you may face. IIS ASP.NET error 500.21 When you access the Afaria web site, you get a IIS error (500.21). The Read more…
SSL is out, TLS is the new kid in town (although already pretty old) and to keep security high on your SMP3 server, a question remains: how to enable TLS on SMP3? Easy: it is already configured! By default, SMP3 comes with TLS enabled. The trick is to configure it Read more…
Afaria mobile client can request a client certificate from a corporate CA for the user. This means that the user will get automatically a valid certificate made available for him, without having to go through the complicated process of requesting and installing a certificate. The user won`t even know that Read more…