Outlook: ‘Exchange Administrator has Made a Change That Requires You Quit’
KB ID 0001372 Problem Last week I had a client report that ‘some’ of his users were getting this popup repeatedly, every time they launched Outlook. The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook This popup is usually seen during migrations, when mailboxes are being migrated, (or have just been migrated.) But you should only ever see it once. Solution I had recently...
Microsoft Outlook: Creating a New Profile
KB ID 0001371 Problem There are times when a problem with your Outlook profile can manifest itself in many ‘annoying’ ways. Sometimes the simplest thing to do is to put your Outlook profile to one side, and create a fresh new one. Solution Ensure Outlook is closed, open Control Panel > Set the view to ‘Small icons’ > Mail > Show Profiles. Add > Give the new profile a sensible name > OK. Configure...
Cisco ASA EZVPN (Revisited)
KB ID 0001261 Problem EZVPN is a technology that lets you form an ISAKMP/IPSEC VPN tunnel from a site with a dynamically assigned IP (EZVPN Client,) back to a device with a static IP (EZVPN Server). I’ve called this EZVPN revisited, because this is a technology I’ve talked about before. So why am I here again? Well back then I used the ASDM. If you do that now, you need to go in and mess about with things to get it to work...
VMware: Windows VM – No Mouse & Cannot Install VMware Tools
KB ID 0001370 Problem Every time this happens to me I have a rant about it, and everyone looks perplexed, surely this does not only happen to me? Using ESX6.5 I build a new Windows VM, and theres no mouse, web client has nothing, try the VMRC then I get a mouse pointer, but it’s as responsive as trying to play chess with a firehose! Once you install VMware tools it’s fine, but here’s the problem – try...
vSphere – ‘Cannot complete operation due to concurrent modification by another operation’
KB ID 0001069 Problem I had been messing around with ports groups and VLANS, and afterwards when attempting to present a server some vNICs I got this error. Solution Virtual Center Appliance I have to completely restart the Virtual Center Appliance, before this error would clear! Solution (Windows vCenter) No matter what I did this error refused to budge, when this happens it’s usually because vCenter has got its knickers in a...