PowerShell: Prompt Has Changed To Two Greater Than Signs
KB ID 0001380 Problem What does this mean? Well it means you’ve either got something wrong, or missed something out, and PowerShell is not sat waiting for more input. Which is fine but in most cases you simply need to fix your syntax and sort again so how do you ‘escape’ back to the normal PowerShell prompt? Solution As you can see, (below) typing quit or exist does not help. You need to press CTRL+C. Related...
Cisco Firewall: Updating and Copying files from USB
KB ID 0001377 Problem Cisco ASA firewalls have had USB sockets on them for a while, but a dig into the documentation only yielded, ‘for use in future releases’. Well they are working now! Note: Firewall shown is a 5516-X (running version 9.8(1)) Solution Your drive needs to be formatted as FAT (not NTFS), I’m going to update/install some AnyConnect client software, but there’s nothing to stop you uploading a...
Exchange Mailbox Moves: ‘FailedOther’ Stops at 95%
KB ID 0001376 Problem If you don’t see this happen at least once in a migration I would be surprised! StatusDetail: FailedOther PercentComplete: 95% Solution You can remove the move request and start it again, with both a BadItemLimit and AcceptLargeDataLoss flag, (these might seem scary, but I’ve migrated many thousands of mailboxes, and never seen a problem.) But the mailbox is massive and it had been moving for...
The Remote Computer Requires Network Level Authentication (NLA)
KB ID 0001375 Problem Seen when attempting to connect to a remote machine via Remote Desktop; The remote computer that you are trying to connect to requires network level authentication (NLA), but your windows domain controller cannot be contacted to perform NLA. If you are an administrator on the remote computer, you can disable NLA by using the options on the remote tab of the System properties dialog box. Also See: Windows RDP: ‘An...
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...