vSphere – Virtual Machine Will Not ‘Power Off’ (Hangs at 95%)
KB ID 0000911 Problem I had a virtual machine crash on me, while I was doing some work on it As I was unable to shut it down gracefully, I attempted to ‘Power Off’. It progressed to 95% and stopped there. Expecting it to ‘time out’, I carried on with some other work and kept an eye on it. 30 minutes later there was still no progress. Solution 1. Enable SSH access on the ESX host that is hosting the problem VM....
IIS – ‘This Web site cannot be started. Another Web site may be using the same port’.
KB ID 0000660 Problem After being unable to access my Exchange Management console, it turns out the default website had stopped. When I attempted to start it I was greeted with this error. Solution 1. Nothing was using the usual web ports (80 and 443) which I found out by running the following two commands; netstat -aon | find “:80″</p> <p>netstat -aon | find “:443” Note: If you do have a process...
Cannot Access Exchange Management Console
KB ID 0000477 Dtd 02/05/13 Problem Since Exchange 2007, its management tasks have been done via PowerShell, (yes even the GUI Management). Which is fine, however it runs all that PowerShell from a virtual directory that lives in the servers’ IIS webserver. When that fails or there is a problem, Exchange runs quite happily, but you can’t run the management tools. There are a number of reasons for this to fail and a number...