vSphere – The ‘VMware VirtualCenter Service’ will not start
Nov17

vSphere – The ‘VMware VirtualCenter Service’ will not start

KB ID 0000526  Problem I tried to logon to my vCenter this afternoon (Server 2008 R2) and could not get on, I connected to the server to find it was up but the “VMware VirtualCenter Server” service was not running. So I tried to start it and got the following error, Error: Windows could not start the VMware VirtualCenter Server on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft...

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Windows 8 – ‘Network Connectivity Assistant service is stopped or not responding’
Nov17

Windows 8 – ‘Network Connectivity Assistant service is stopped or not responding’

KB ID 0000841 Problem When attempting to check Direct Access connection status on a Windows 8 client machine with a Get-DaConnectionStatus command you see the following error; Get-DaConnectionStatus : Network Connectivity Assistant service is stopped or not responding. OK, so lets go and check the status of that service, if it starts great, but mine did not as you can see. And it logged an Event ID 7024 The Network Connectivity...

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