Firefox: Cannot Open vCenter Web Client
KB ID 0001482 Problem I wonder how many hours Ive lost trying to get browsers to connect to things, and the browser has not been happy? This week I needed to connect to a vCenter (6.5) web console with Firefox and was greeted with this. Your connection is not secure The owner of {site} has configured their web site improperly. To protect information being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website. Error Code:...
VMware: The OVF Descriptor is Not Available
KB ID 0001483 Problem I’ve seen this a couple of times now, and each time I’ve (wrongly) assumed that the OVA/OVF file I’ve downloaded is either corrupt, or it has some sort of problem. Failed to deploy OVF package. Cause: A general system error occurred: Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available. Solution Redeploy the OVF file, but this time instead of selecting the Cluster, select A SPECIFIC HOST to...
How to Transfer Files from PC to iPhone Wirelessly
KB ID 0001481 Written by Tag Jones When it comes to transferring files from PC to iPhone and vice versa, the most obvious choice is to use iTunes. However, it has been found that many users don’t like working with this application. Bloated and ponderous, iTunes continues Apple’s ongoing trend of having lost its design mojo. Luckily, we have other options. One of the easiest ways is to use Wi-Fi Direct Transfer. With this...
Office 365: Allow Mail Relay Through Exchange Online
KB ID 0001480 Problem If you are used to running ‘on-prem’ Exchange then allowing an IP/Hostname to relay mail (sent mail through without authenticating) it’s handy for things like older multifunction scanners, or applications that need to send emails. Now you SHOULD be sending mail through Office 365 ‘authenticated’, but that’s not always possible. Solution From Office 365,Launch The Exchange admin...
VMware Cannot Remove / Unmount an NFS Store
KB ID 0001479 Problem After I had a datastore failure I needed to ‘unmount’ a datastore in my VMware 6.5 environment. But when I attempted to do so I got; The “Remote Datastore” operation failed for the entity with the following error message. The resource “Datastore-Name” is in use. Solution In use by what? Thanks for the assistance! Usually this happens because you have a VM with a VMDK in their...