Upgrading to Active Roles 7.5.2 and importing Management History removes sites in IIS (4323178)

After upgrading to Active Roles 7.5.2 and importing the Management History, the Active Roles sites are removed.

For each subsequent import of Management History, the next site is removed.

The results are as follows:

After upgrade without importing Management History:

After importing Management History first time:

After importing Management History a second time:

This issue has been identified as a product defect and is being tracked as Defect ID 306754.

Root cause is currently being investigated.

STATUS

This issue is currently being investigated and this KB will be updated accordingly.

WORKAROUND 1

Preferably, the Import Management History wizard found in the Active Roles Configuration Center in Active Roles 7.5.2 should not be used. Instead, use the Import-ARDatabase cmdlet included with the ActiveRolesConfiguration PowerShell module.

For more information on this option, please run the following in the Active Roles Management Shell:

Get-Help Import-ARDatabase -showWindow

WORKAROUND 2

If the Import Management History wizard has already been run and sites have been removed from IIS, the Active Roles Web Interface configurations for those sites still exist in the Active Roles database and the sites can be re-created using the Active Roles Configuration Center.

1. If the Configuration Center is still open post-Import, close it. Then open Configuration Center and use the Web Interface wizard to create the site and select existing template as shown below.
2. Select Create

3. Type in the Alias of the site that was removed post import, such as ARWebAdmin

4. Select Use an existing configuration and the appropriate configuration to use.