VMware View – Windows Pool ‘Stuck’ on Customizing
KB ID 0000646 Problem While trying to deploy a Windows XP Pool yesterday, I hit upon this problem. Windows 7 works fine, but as soon as I tried to roll out a Windows XP pool, they stopped like this; After a couple of hours, the whole operation timed out, and each machine shows as; Status {Date}{Time} o’clock {Time-Zone}: Customization operation timed out I tried to deploy the pool with both ‘quick prep’ and...
Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES
KB ID 0000970 Problem I’ve covered setting up NDES at length in the past, but what happens when your issued certificates expire? If you are using them for all your VPNs what then? Well thankfully you can get your devices to automatically re-enroll and before they expire, for example to renew the cert at 80% of its lifetime you would use the following; crypto pki trustpoint PNL-TRUSTPOINT enrollment url...
Migration From Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 (& 2013)
Part 1 KB ID 0000788 Problem To complete a migration from Exchange 2010 (or 2007) to Exchange 2016/2013, you need to introduce Exchange 2016 into your existing Exchange environment, then migrate your content onto the new server(s), and finally remove Exchange 2010. Solution Assumptions: In this example I’ve got an existing Exchange 2010 environment running on Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m putting in Exchange 2016 onto a new...
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....