PowerShell: Restart Fails ‘Other Users Logged On’
KB ID 0001374 Problem If you intend to shutdown, or restart a remote computer using PowerShell, you may see the following error message; PS C:\> Restart-Computer “Computer-name” Restart-Computer : This command cannot be run on target computer(‘Computer-name’) due to following error: The system shutdown cannot be initiated because there are other users logged on to the computer. At line:1 char:1 + REstart-Computer...
Windows Server – User Account Control Will Not Disable
KB ID 0001373 Problem While doing some work for a client, I was constantly getting nagged by User Account Control prompts like so; It’s been a while since I spoke about UAC, (and how to turn it off) see the link below; Windows – How to Disable ‘User Account Control’ As I’ve said UAC is a good thing, it’s there for a reason, but in this case I was logged onto a clients domain servers, with an administrative account,...
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...
Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 Password Recovery
KB ID 0000095 Problem Note: As the title suggests, this is quite an old post! you might prefer THIS ONE. Disclaimer: This information is designed to help people who are locked out of their own PC’s and not for Hacker Wannabe’s with the IQ of a haddock. Information is not inherently dangerous, just some people are. If you want to break things and be a general pain in the ass, sod off to Google and leave the grown ups alone....
ASA5505 – ‘This Licence Does Not Allow Configuring Of More Than 2 Interfaces’
KB ID 0001367 Problem When attempting to bring up a ‘3rd VLAN’ on an ASA 5505 firewall you see an error like this; Petes-ASA# configure terminal Petes-ASA(config)# int vlan 3 Petes-ASA(config-if)# nameif DMZ ERROR: This license does not allow configuring more than 2 interfaces with nameif and without a “no forward” command on this interface or on 1 interface(s) with nameif already configured....
Cisco ASA 8.2 Upgrade to 8.3
KB ID 0001366 Problem I can’t believe I’m writing this, it’s been so long since 8.3 was released (7 Years!) And still there’s firewalls out there running old code? Why is the 8.3 upgrade important? This update made some very major changes to the way we did NAT, and also the way we wrote ACL’s. It was a big change. I remember keeping my client firewalls on 8.2 for a while until I fully understood the...