Failed to Initialize Connection Subsystem

After installing KB3021952 MS15-009: Description of the security update for Internet Explorer: February 10, 2015, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client was failing to start with following error message :

Failed to Initialize connection subsystem

In order to fix this behavior without uninstalling the KB3040335, vpnui.exe should be set to run in Windows 8 compatibility mode.
Fortunately, with latest published updates from Microsoft which includes KB3032359 Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: March 10, 2015, will also fix this behavior (problem).
 

Usage logs not deleted on SharePoint 2010

In this case SharePoint 2010 server was running on Windows Server 2008 R2 and was filling up disk space with usage logs. Default location for usage logs is in %programfiles%\common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS. Usage logs were not deleted because they were locked by the SharePoint Timer Service. Restarting the service will release the locks and usage files will be deleted.
Because of this behavior you will also have event id 6398 in Application Log from source SharePoint Foundation with following description:

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerRecycleJobDefinition  

The timer service was not recycled because the following jobs were still running: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Usage Data Import

The reason for this behavior is the following update KB2882822.Uninstalling the update will fix the locking usage files issue.
This behavior is also fixed with SharePoint 2010 December 2013 CU KB2849971.
 

Error Event ID 1511 on SharePoint 2010

In this post I'll write about how I've resolved the following error event with id 1511 from User Profile Service source with following description on SharePoint 2010 server :

Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

Several IIS application pools were running with regular domain user account on this SharePoint 2010 server. For some of these application pools identities local profile was not created instead temporary profile was used. Domain user account with temporary profile created for that application pool is logged in the same event id 1511 under user section.
Fixing this behavior is simple, and the point is to create the user's profile before application pool is started. I guess, the easiest way to achieve that, is to start the command prompt under that "problematic" domain user account.
So, after stopping the SharePoint services and IIS, and deleting the temp profile from C:\Users folder, I ran the runas command:

runas /user:domain\apooluser cmd

After typing the correct password for that domain user, command prompt will open under user's context and local profile will be created for that user in C:\Users folder. Reboot the server and error event with 1511 id will not be log since IIS application pool will start and will use the previously created local profile in C:\Users folder.
 

TMG 2010 with HTTPS inspection enabled, unable to access some websites

In this case I'm going to point to two Microsoft KB articles that helped me to resolve the following issue: Microsoft TMG 2010 with HTTPS inspection enabled is used as proxy server and users are reporting that cannot access some https web sites.
Access to those https websites is possible when TMG is not used as a proxy server. Web server certificates are valid and issued by public certification authorities. TMG server also trusts the root certificates of those web server certificates. For testing purposes domain names of those websites were put into destinations exceptions for HTTPS inspection, and users were still unable to access those website. TMG logs were showing the following HTTP Error code when users were accessing those websites:

12030 The connection with the server was terminated abnormally

According from this log the destination web server was terminating the https connection, and reason for that behavior was that TMG server was trying to negotiate the session with destination web server using old protocols. In order to fix that behavior I used the following Microsoft KB articles:

FIX: You cannot access a website that does not support TLS v1.0 when you enable HTTPS inspection and set HTTPSiClientProtocols
FIX: You cannot access a website that is listed on the Destination Exception tab of the HTTPS Outbound Inspection dialog box in Forefront TMG 2010

Note: Before using these fixes please check the requirements for service pack and rollup updates of Microsoft Threat Management Gateway 2010.
 

How to find the latest OS Image from Microsoft Azure Galery

This post is for reference and is intended to simplify the way of finding the latest available operating system image from Azure gallery using PowerShell (I will not get into details how to connect to your azure subscription using PowerShell).
Here is an example of how to get the latest image for Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition:

$OSImage = (Get-AzureVMImage | where {$_.ImageFamily -like "Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter*"} | sort PublishedDate -Descending)[0].ImageName

or Ubuntu Server 14 LTS:

$OSImage = (Get-AzureVMImage | where {$_.ImageFamily -like "Ubuntu Server 14*LTS*"} | sort PublishedDate -Descending)[0].ImageName

The logic in these one liners PowerShell is very simple, the output from Get-AzureVMImage is first filtered by ImageFamily and then sorted descending by PublishedDate. The first listed (latest published) image name is put into $osimage variable. Now, "armed" with latest image of the operating system, you can proceed in creating Azure Virtual Machine.