VMware ‘Disable DelayedAck’ Does Not Work?
Mar07

VMware ‘Disable DelayedAck’ Does Not Work?

KB ID 0001525 Problem I’ve got a client that’s been having some performance issues with their VMs. Their storage vendor, (EMC) said that as a result of finding this in the logs; B       02/28/19 09:50:53.953 scsitarg          117000e [INFO] System: iSCSI Logout Initiator Data: IP=192.168.200.161 Name=…-ec-21 Target Data: Port=2 Flags=0x00002002 Info=0x01200801 B       02/28/19 09:50:53.969 scsitarg          117000e...

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PX4-300D Lenovo EMC NAS Device Stuck at 95%
Jan02

PX4-300D Lenovo EMC NAS Device Stuck at 95%

KB ID 0001381 Problem I decided to update the firmware on my PX4-300D 16TB NAS Device, (big mistake!) I had some lunch and went to see how it was getting on, I could no longer connect to the device via web or SSH. It had done this to me once in the past when It had a failed drive, simply removing the drives rebooting and then putting the drives back in got me going last time. So I got on the Lenovo forums, it’s full of posts...

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Cannot Access Exchange Management Console
Nov17

Cannot Access Exchange Management Console

KB ID 0000477 Dtd 02/05/13 Problem Since Exchange 2007, its management tasks have been done via PowerShell, (yes even the GUI Management). Which is fine, however it runs all that PowerShell from a virtual directory that lives in the servers’ IIS webserver. When that fails or there is a problem, Exchange runs quite happily, but you can’t run the management tools. There are a number of reasons for this to fail and a number...

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Exchange – “You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console”
Nov17

Exchange – “You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console”

KB ID 0000478  Problem Seen on Exchange 2010 SP1 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. Whenever you attempt to close the Exchange Management console you see the following error. You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console Even though there are no dialog boxes open! Solution Essentially this is a Bug in Internet Explorer 9. To stop this happening you have 3 choices. Option 1 Hotfix released 18/10/11 1....

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Exchange – ‘The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.’
Nov17

Exchange – ‘The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.’

KB ID 0000484  Problem Seen on Exchange (with or without service packs) when you access the internet through a proxy server. Note: Exchange does NOT take its proxy settings from Internet Explorer. Solution 1. To prove that the proxy is the problem drop to command line and issue the following command: netsh winhttp show proxy   If it says “Direct Access (no proxy server)” and you have a proxy server then that’s...

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