AP down

Sigh. Upgrade win2008R2 to 2012 and now mssql enterprise manager, visual studio, etc wont start

'invocation error'.
dirkstrauss.com/exception-thrown-target-invocation/

'repaired' visual studio 2013, took hours, nope.

Sql management studio 2016 installer just opens and closes.

Google tells me its the path, nope. Google tells me to DISM remove/add .net 3 and 4, nope.

After reinstalling .net4 and rebooting ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work, along with RDP, TV, VNC, lol!

Rebooted again and now RDP isn't even answering on TCP. Lol!

Happy Sunday!

After much hard work and hacking the damn server to pieces, win2012 was just busticated, all msc files missing, etc. I finally got it alive enough to perform the upgrade from 2012 to 2016. 2016 is healthy as expected.

I am now taking the time to upgrade SQL and dev tools.