HP Intelligent Provisioning Cant See USB Media?
KB ID 0001555 Problem Life was simpler when we had DVD Drives and a wallet full of CD/DVDs! I was building an HP DL360 This morning and needed to install Windows. I created a bootable USB with Unetbootin and selected a Windows Server ISO, it wouldn’t boot. So I thought ‘Fine I’ll play the game” I pressed F10 for Intelligent Provisioning. After selecting USB media – the system could not see my USB Drive? ...
vSphere 6.5 vCenter Appliance – Replacing Certificates
KB ID 0001194 Problem In vSphere 5 and earlier versions this was not a ‘fun’ job at all, many times I sat down to do it, and lost the will to live. Now there’s a nice new tool built into vCenter that does ‘most’ of the hard work for you. Here I’m using the vCenter appliance but the tool is also available on the Windows version. For my certificates I’m using Microsoft Certificate Services....
ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) Domain Migration – Part 2
KB ID 0001306 Problem Back in Part One we setup our migration admin account, and installed ADMT. Now, as I’m going to migrate the users passwords I need a ‘Password Export Server’, but first I need to tackle the subject of user SIDs Solution Domain Migrations and SID Filtering Every user has a SID (Security Identifier) it’s the thing AD uses to refer to and apply security to users, (and other objects). This...
Firefox Error – SSL_ERROR_WEAK_SERVER_EPHEMERAL_DH_KEY
KB ID 0001189 Problem Firefox is what I use when Opera does not work, so when I tried to connect to some management servers that did not support Opera this happened; Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to {FQDN). SSL received a weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key in Server Key Exchange handshake message. (Error code: SSL_ERROR_WEAK_SERVER_EPHEMERAL_DH_KEY) Solution Navigate to ‘about:config’...
ESXi 4/5 – Adding a license key
KB ID 0000272 Problem ESXi is free, however when you have installed it you will see, Solution 1. To get your key go to the VMware web site > Products > Download > Log in > It will give you a key with the download. 2. Connect to the ESXi host with your vSphere client. 3. Select the Host > Configuration tab > Licence sd Features > Edit > Enter Key > Type in the key > OK > OK. Related Articles,...