VMware: ISO Upload or Deploy OVA Fails ‘Undetermined Reason’
KB ID 0001499 Problem I see this a lot! Usually I assume I just need to change browser, here the error is in Chrome. You can see this if you attempt to upload an ISO file to a datastore, or attempt to deploy an OVF file. Error The operation failed for an undetermined reason. Typically this problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust. If you are using self-signed or custom certificates, open the URL below in a...
VMware Composer Install Fails
KB ID 0001498 Problem While attempting to deploy VMware Composer, (in my case version 7) on a windows Server, (in my case 2016 Datacenter). This happened; Installation Failed The wizard was interrupted before VMware Horizon7 Composer could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time please run setup again. Click Finish to exit the wizard. Annoyingly I know what it was straight...
HPE Synergy ‘Unable to Apply Local Storage Settings’
KB ID 0001497 Problem While deploying some Blade severs, I was unable to get the ‘Local’ storage on the blades themselves to configure, (when setting up the server profiles). They were throwing this error; Unable to apply local storage settings on server (Enclosure-name}, bay {number} because HPE OneView cannot communicate with the integrated Smart Array controller : Locked. Resolution Ensure that there is an integrated...
Cisco ASA – DNS Doctoring
KB ID 0001113 Problem Cisco DNS doctoring is a process that intercepts a DNS response packet as it comes back into the network, and changes the IP address in the response. Why Would you want to do this? Well lets say you have a web server on your network, and its public IP is 111.111.111.111, and on your LAN its internal IP address is 192.168.1.100, its public DNS name, (or URL) is www.yoursite.com. When a user types www.yoursite.com...
Recovering Windows Activation Keys
KB ID 0001115 “Have you got one of those programs that gets the Windows key?”, My colleague asked me the other week. I said “Just download a key finder application?”, “Yeah I’ve tried that and is showing the code as all B’s”. You may also just see ‘Product key was not found’ on some software. I sent him some more links and got back to what I was doing. He was having no joy...
Cisco ASA: Remove FTD and Return to ASA and ASDM
Remove FTD KB ID 0001496 Problem A few weeks ago I posted an article about re-image your Cisco ASA to FTD (FirePOWER Threat Defence). Now you may find the the FTD is not as ‘Feature rich’ as your old firewall, or that there’s a ‘Lack of feature parity’, which are two polite ways of saying that it’s crap, (sorry it’s just awful, as usual Cisco should’ve spent a LOT longer developing this...
HPe Synergy 12000 MPIO QSFP to 10GB SFP Setup
KB ID 0001495 Problem I was recently involved in deploying an HPe Synergy 12000 Frame. And the network connections from it were ‘a little unusual’ so I thought I’d document that here, to save anyone else the problems I had. I was connecting to an HP/Aruba 5412 switch so my cables were all HP/Aruba (to be on the safe side). What you can see (above) is the MPIO Cable (K2Q46A P/N 800867-001) fixed onto the left (and...
Exchange – OWA and ECP Blank Page After Logon
ECP Blank Page KB ID 0001185 Problem Note: This article is for Exchange 2013,2016 and 2019, if you are running Exchange 2010 or 2007 see the following article; Exchange 2010 – Blank OWA Page? Sometimes this happens after applying updates to Exchange! Firstly make sure all your services a running! From an administrative Powershell window run the following command; Get-Service *Exchange* | Start-Service After making some certificate...
Domain Controller Wont Boot: Stop Code ‘0x00002e2’
KB ID 0001494 Problem I had this problem after a VMware host upgrade last night, this domain controller would not boot, I tried ‘Last Known Good Configuration’, I tried ‘Safe Mode’ it would not boot. More out of desperation than procedure, I tried to boot to ‘Directory Services Restore Mode’ and it booted up (hooray!) I tried all the client’s usual passwords, and could not log in, I messaged...
Getting a Servers Serial Number (Remotely)
KB ID 0001493 Problem If you have an iLO/iDRAC/EMM, then logging into these will give you the servers serial number, but what if they are not setup/connected, or you don’t know username or password? Then you can use WMI to discover the serial number. Solution From PowerShell; Get-Ciminstance -classname win32_bios -computername {Server-Name} | format-list serialnumber Or if you have RDP/Console access , then from an...