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vSphere – The ‘VMware VirtualCenter Service’ will not start

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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 service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 2

As suggested I went to the event viewer and opened the system log. All it yielded was a standard 7024 Service could not start error.

Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 25/10/2011 14:48:21
Event ID: 7024
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: My-VCenter.MyDomain.com
Description:
The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified.
The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error 2 (0×2)

Solution

As it turned out,this problem was related to having IIS on the server (Virtual Center runs Apache web server).

1. Click Start > In the search/run box type > Services.msc {enter}

2. Locate the IIS Admin Service > Stop and Disable it.

3.Locate the “World Wide Publishing” Service and stop and disable that also (Note: You can fix this problem by disabling this service only but lets have a belt and braces approach).

4. Now you can start the “VMware Virtual Center Server” service.

 

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

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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 Assistant service terminated with the following service-specific error:
The request is not supported.

Note: This will also happen if you have not configured Remote Access properly on your server, and the client has not got the necessary group policies applied, so make sure that’s discounted first!

Solution

In my case the problem was a little more obscure, it seems this will not work on Windows 8 (Professional), to check your version simply run msinfo32;

Windows 8 Professional

Windows 8 Enterprise

Try the same this on a Windows 8 (Enterprise) client and it will run without error.

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