Windows: Cisco ASDM ‘This app can’t run on your PC’
‘This app can’t run on your PC’ KB ID 0001574 Problem Whys isn’t Java dead yet? 🙁 Anyway, I tried to connect to a clients ASDM today, and from my Windows 10 machine, I got the following error; Windows 11 Windows 10 This app can’t run on your PC To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher. ‘This app can’t run on your PC’ Solution Make sure you have installed Java...
ESX: This PC Can’t Run Windows 11
KB ID 0001763 Problem: This PC Can’t Run windows 11 When attempting to install Windows 11 on ESX (in this example vSphere 6.7) you will receive the following error; Windows Setup This PC can’t run Windows 11 This PC doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows. For more information, visit https://aka.ms.WindowsSysReq The reason you are seeing this is probably not because you...
Zerto Hyper-V to VMware
Zerto Hyper-V to VMware KB ID 0001805 Problem I’ve known this was possible for a while, I tried to set it up a while ago, but had a nightmare installing SCVMM so I threw my toys out of the pram and did something else. After a chat with a colleague the other week we have client who needs to do this (we are migrating them from Hyper-V into VMware). So I thought I’d revisit the subject, and this time everything went...
Force Remove FortiClient
Remove FortiClient KB ID 0001804 Problem I don’t know if its’ just bad coding, or an attempt at security, but the fact that the ‘uninstall’ option is missing from add remove programs for the FortiClient is a bit annoying. Remove FortiClient Solution While attempting to remedy this I came across the following command, which is supposed to remove the client software, which it did NOT do, but it did give me the...
Upgrade Server 2012 (In Place)
Upgrade Server 2012 KB ID 0001802 Server 2012 End Of Life Note: Also See In Place Upgrade of Window Server Windows Server 2012 (and Windows Server 2012 R2) will go end of life on October 10th 2023. Start planning to migrate your productions workloads off this platform as soon as you can. I’ve mentioned before on the site, I’m not a fan of ‘in place’ upgrades, you get to migrate all the ‘broken bits’...
Windows Update Error 80072EFE
80072EFE Error KB ID 0001801 Problem Seen on versions of Windows built from ‘older’ versions of the install media, when attempting to check for updates you may see. Error(s) food: Code 80072EFE Windows update ran into a problem 80072EFE Update Error Resolution At first (because it was a newly build machine.) I thought the problem was incorrect Time zone, Time, or Locale. But thats NOT the problem, you’re stuck in a...
Update PowerShell To the Latest Version
Update PowerShell KB ID 0001800 Problem Whenever you start Powershell, you may see something like, You’ve probably seen that so many times, you don’t even thing about it. So what’s the quickest and easiest way to update it? I like to see what’s going on, so I choose to update with the MSI file. Update PowerShell Solution From within the Powershell window execute the following command. Invoke-Expression...
AnyConnect Error: Cannot Connect to to this Gateway
AnyConnect Error KB ID 0001799 Problem Out of the blue this started happening (to a previously working AnyConnect deployment). Cannot connect to this gateway. Please choose another gateway and try again I upgraded the client, the AnyConnect package in the firewall, the OS on the firewall and the ADSM! The error would not go away. AnyConnect Error: Solution Sadly I’d also blown away the Anyconenct config on the firewall, and...
GIMP Removing Colour From an Image
GIMP Removing Colour KB ID 0001798 Problem I have to do this frequently, usually to put company logos into Visio/Omnigraffle drawings. To be honest I normally forget how to do it, and then have to Google the steps, and tell myself I really should document the procedure for next time. Well I’ve finally got round to it. GIMP Removing Colour Here I need to remove all the ‘white’ from this FortiClient logo (used in the...
FortiClient Azure Authentication
FortiClient Azure KB ID 0001797 Problem More and more people are using Azure as their primary identity provider, thanks in no small part to the massive success of Office/Windows 365. So if you want to provide a FortiGate/FortiClient SSL remote access VPN solution then securing it via Azure makes a lot of sense. Multi Factor Authentication: If you have MFA on your Azure accounts then that’s a big box ticked for your...