After upgrading my vCenter to 8.0 Update 3 I went to login, and the login box itself was grayed out, with a ‘no entry’ sign when I attempted to click it, and Bizarrely I now had a Use RSA ID option?
Solution: Login Grayed Out
Apparently, this is a known problem with this update, and the ‘fix’ is to clear the browser cache, which I attempted to do.
However the problem persisted, the only way I could fix the problem was to delete ALL BROWSING DATA.
Thankfully after a browser restart, I was up and running again.
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Note: I’ve had the same problem on a freshly installed vCenter 5.1 as well.
I upgraded my Virtual Center from 5.0 to 5.1 yesterday, and post upgrade I could no longer login, it would tell me “Unknown user or bad password”.
During the upgrade I did see this error, but after that the install completed successfully.
Error 29155.Identity source discovery error
As it turns out this was the root cause of my problem.
Solution
1. Firstly install the ‘Web Client’ on the Virtual Center. Note: You will need Adobe flash installing for this to work. (Sometimes this needs a reboot, and the firewall turning off, and/or adding to trusted sites in IE, before it works).
Note: The Web Client is on the Virtual Center install CD.
2. Connect to the the server on https://localhost:9443 log on (Note: Use the username of admin@System-Domain and the password you used when you installed Single Sign on earlier). Expand Sign on and Discovery > Configuration > Select the ‘Add’ icon.
3. Supply your domain details as follows, those ldapURL’s simply point to the domain controller(s).
4. Scroll down and enter the domain logon credentials, then select ‘Test Connection’.
5. It should say connected successfully, if not check the comms and the details you entered are correct.
6. Click the ‘Add to Default Domains’ Icon.
7. Finally save the changes by selecting the ‘Save’ icon, you should now be able to authenticate to the vCenter with your domain credentials.
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By default the Administrators account in SBS 2008 is disabled, while this is not a bad thing and there are very valid reasons for it being disabled, some users still want to use it.
Solution
Option 1 – Create another “Admin” Account
1. Start > run > dsa.msc {enter} > Right click users > New User > follow the onscreen prompts.
2.Right click the user you have just created and add them to the following groups > Administrators > Denied RODC Password Replication > Domain Admins > Domain Users > Enterprise Admins > Exchange Organization Administrators > Group Policy Creator Owners > Schema Admins > WSS_ADMIN_WPG.
Note: You can also set the “Primary Group” to “Domain Admins.”
Option 2 – Enable the Administrator Account
1. You can quickly enable the Administrators account with the following command,
[box]net user administrator /active:yes[/box]
2. Remember you will still need to set a password for the account and it must comply with your password complexity policy if enabled.
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