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Moving Databases issue GA 7.7.1 for MSSQL

Published March 28th, 2025 by Sean Holdstock

Update 04.06.2025 When upgrading to v7.7.0 or v7.7.1 The dataabase.xml will need the addition of ;encrypt=false added to the JDBC connection string in order to get the GA Windows service running again after upgrade. Summary: When running GoAnywhere 7.7.1 and you want to migrate your database using the database migration wizard within GoAnyhwhere y

MOVEit Automation: What to do if you can't connect to Transfer

Published July 19th, 2023 by Sean Holdstock

If you find yourself presented with task failing because they cannot access MOVEit Transfer, This could be due to a number of reasons. To allow your tasks to continue running while you diagnose the issue, We can put in a small workaround to allow connections to continue over SHH. Background: When you create a MOVEit Transfer host in MOVEit Automati

Test Files: Creating test files for speed tests

Published September 12th, 2023 by Sean Holdstock

If you want to test how long a file could take to transfer but do not have a test file the exact size you can create one to fit your need case. Start by opening a command prompt as administrator and then enter the follwowing command: fsutil file createnew <filename> <length> For my example I am going to create a file in C:\temp which is

MOVEit Automation: Changing your SSL certificate

Published August 14th, 2023 by Sean Holdstock

SSL certificates expire and we have all experienced it. In this article we will go over how to update your SSL cert for both your admin login page and for the SSL your tasks use as default. To start with you will need to have the installer for MOVEit Automation relevant for your version, For example if you are running version 14 then please downloa

MOVEit Automation: Capturing connection logging - Diagnostic Test

Published August 9th, 2023 by Sean Holdstock

If you are having issues connecting to a specfic host and unfortantly are unable to tell why there is a simple diagnostic test you can preform to gather additional logging data that can be useful in isolating the root cause for the issue. First login to the web console of your MOVEit Automation for example Https://localhost Once the dashboard loads

MOVEit Automation: Failover node cannot save the state

Published August 15th, 2023 by Sean Holdstock

You may have a time when your primary and secondary nodes are not communicating in MOVEit Automation. Whether you are using the desktop app or the web app you may come across a notification that your nodes cannot save the state file from the primary. If this situation happens to you there is a solution to fix the issue. The issue in question is that