vSphere – ‘The Number of HA Heartbeat Datastores for this host is 0’
Jun06

vSphere – ‘The Number of HA Heartbeat Datastores for this host is 0’

KB ID 00011202  Problem Seen after enabling HA on your vSphere Cluster HA Error: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0, which is less than required: 2 or HA Error: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2 I had this on my test network today, and to be honest thats not really surprising because I don’t have any shared storage.   Note: You can see the same error if your ‘HA...

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Cisco IOS – An interface whose trunk encapsulation is “Auto” can not be configured to “trunk” mode.
Mar19

Cisco IOS – An interface whose trunk encapsulation is “Auto” can not be configured to “trunk” mode.

KB ID0001167 Problem If you try and change a ports status, to make it a trunk port, you may see this error; Petes-Switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk Command rejected: An interface whose trunk encapsulation is “Auto” can not be configured to “trunk” mode. Trunk Settings I don’t know if this is a throwback to when we had ISL trunking and 802.1q, but you need to specify the encapsulation before you can...

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Remote Desktop Web Access – Connection Error
Jan22

Remote Desktop Web Access – Connection Error

KB ID 0001141  Problem Eleven days! That’s how long it took to fix this, after seven days, I bit the bullet and logged a call to Microsoft. I spent hours on the phone to the Remote Desktop Team, The Web Application Proxy Team, and the Networking Team. I replicated the error by building a complete new domain, PKI, ADFS, Remote Desktop Deployment and Web Application Proxy Server. Then today I got a call from the...

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Event ID 14029
Nov17

Event ID 14029

KB ID 0000446  Problem Event ID 14029 Couldn’t find an Exchange 2010 or later public folder replica for the free/busy folder: EX:/O={your domain/OU={your administrative group} The message is quite straight forward, Older Outlook clients (2003 and earlier) get their scheduling and calendaring info from the “SHEDULE+ free/busy” public folder. Newer Outlook clients (2007 and later) don’t need to do this. You are...

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Event ID 36888
Nov17

Event ID 36888

KB ID 0000634  Problem This was driving me nuts on my Windows 7 x64 Laptop. Log Name: System Source: Schannel Event ID: 36888 Task Category: None Level: Error User: SYSTEM Description: The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 10. I was getting a dozen of these an hour! Solution This error is caused (from what I can gather) by an error in certificate negotiation, your machine is trying to initiate...

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