When adding a ‘Backup Repository’ to Veeam you may see one of the following;
The file system on the specified volume does not support fast cloning. We recommend using ReFS volume formatted with 64 KB cluster size. Proceed anyway?
The specified ReFS volume is formatted with 4 KB cluster size. We recommend formatting the volume with 64 KB cluster size. Proceed anyway?
Solution
Without going into what ReFS is, think of it as the new NTFS. So that’s the format which you use when formatting the volume you want to use as a repository, the second error above will be seen if you did format the volume as ReFS but used the default 4 KB block size. This is what you need to do when creating the volume;
But there’s already data on the drive! Well tough, either accept and proceed, or move the data elsewhere and reformat. (At present there is no way to convert an NTFS volume to ReFS).
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To be honest it was my own fault, I was trying to get some software and was on a ‘dubious’ file sharing site, when ‘Boom’ loads of popup windows and scripts executing! Normally I’d just’ force quit’ Safari, and open it again then get on with my life, but Safari ‘Helpfully‘ remembered which URL I was on, and reopened it as soon as it launched, and the whole process happened all over again.
Solution
Press CMD+ALT+Esc, then ‘force quit’ Safari.
In ‘Finder’ Go > Go to Folder,
Go to;
[box]~/Library/Preferences/[/box]
Locate and delete com.apple.safari.plist
Repeat the process but this time, go to;
[box]~/Library/Saved Application State/[/box]
Locate and delete com.apple.Safari.savedState
Reboot your machine, and relaunch Safari.
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Seen on VMware Workstation, when attempting to virtualise a product that IS a virtualisation hypervisor (ESX for example).
Error: Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled for this ESXVM. You will only be able to run 32-bit nested VMs.
At first I (wrongly) assumed that I needed to enable something in the BIOS on my laptop, and searched though every page to enable some virtualization setting that was turned off. But that’s NOT what it’s telling you. what it is telling you is you are trying to virtualize a virtualization product, so all the clever VT settings from your physical machines CPU will be shown to VMware workstation. But that presents a Virtual CPU to the OS you are installing as a guest (In the case above ESX) and THAT virtual CPU does NOT have Intel- VT-x/EPT enabled.
So a “Nested VM” – is a Guest VM, running Inside a Guest Hypervisor, that’s been virtualized.
Solution
Note: I’m using VMware workstation 8.
1. Right click the VM in question and select “Settings”.
2. Hardware Tab > Processors > Tick the option to enable VT-x/EPT or V/RVI > OK.
3. Restart the guest machine.
Note: You can also do this be editing the machines .vmx file with a text editor and adding the following lines;
Everytime you go to power on a virtual machine you get asked the following question,
Virtual Machine Message
Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform.
Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT?
And if you choose No it throws up an error. You need to choose Yes before it will let you power on the VM.
Solution
This is a problem of my own making, a while ago I was trying to enable Hyper-V on a Windows 8 VM, and needed to make a change in my VMware environment so I could add this Windows feature to the VM. I enabled the change globally on the ESX host (Instead of just on the machines .vmx file which would have caused me less problems!).
While working on the vSphere Web Client in Google Chrome, I was unable to ‘Open Console’, the option was on the right click menu, but disappeared and was then greyed out after a second or so.
Essentially this happens because the plug-in has either not been installed, (from the login page) or a pop-up blocker is stopping the plug-in working.
Solution
1. With Chrome there’s an extra hoop to jump though, the plug-in uses NPAPI, and Chrome disabled that beginning with version 42. To enable it open a new tab and navigate to;
While setting up a new printer you might see this message on the screen, if you are manually installing a printer that’s fine, but if you are scripting the printer installs you DONT want all your users to see this popping up on their screens, it makes them flap, and then they will ring you up.
Printers
Do you trust this printer?
Windows needs to download and install software from the {print server name} computer to print to {printer name}. Proceed only if you trust the {print server name} computer on the network.
So using group policy let’s tun this off.
Solution
1. Go to your domain controller. Start > Administrative tools > Group Policy management console > either create a new policy and link it to your domain (or required OU’s) or edit an existing policy.
This morning my boss asked me “Why every time I open Internet Explorer does it ask me this?”
To which I replied, “I use Chrome so I don’t know, But I’ll find out.”
Solution
A brief internet search returned, just set the “Ask me later to a nice long time”. But that’s still not disabling it. If truth be known its a good thing, i.e. is trying to be helpful and improve your browsing experience. But if you want to kill it all together heres how.
On a single machine
1. When you installed/Updated to IE9 it added some new policy templates, the one controlling IE9 is called inetres.admx
2. That means we can control what IE9 does with a policy, Click Start and in the search/run box type gpedit.msc {enter}. The group Policy Management Window will appear.
3. Navigate to:
[box] Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [/box]
Locate “Disable add-on performance notifications” and open it.
4. Enable the policy > Apply > OK > Exit the Policy Editor.
In a Windows Domain Environment
Note: On older domains (Server 2003 for example) you will need to download and import the administrative templates to manage these settings via group policy, you can download the template from Microsoft.
1. On your domain controller , Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management Console > Either create a new policy and link it to your targeted COMPUTERS or edit an existing one, then navigate to:
[box] Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [/box]
Locate the setting “Disable add-on performance notifications” and open it.
2. Enable the policy > Apply > OK > Exit the Policy Editor.
3. Then either reboot the clients, wait a couple of hours, or manually run “gpupdate /force” on them.
Remove “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” via Registry
I got an mailed a question this weekend;
I too want to get rid of the IE9 – Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” dialog but only having Vista Home Premium, your solution (using gpedit.msc) is not available. Also, I cannot add a Local Users and Groups snap-in to the Microsoft management Console.
How can I get rid of this bloody annoying feature in IE9?
Kind regards
Brian
Answer
1. No Problem, essentially the group policy editor is just changing registry entries anyway, on your machine Start > In the Search/Run box type > Regedit {enter}
2. Navigate to;
[box] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies [/box]
3. Create a NEW KEY called Ext > Within that key create a new DWORD (32 bit) value called DisableAddonLoadTimePerformanceNotifications and set its value to 1.
4. If your machine is 32 bit then you have finished.
I put in an ASA 5505 this week, and while I was setting it up I was getting plagued with these popping up in the command window all the time;
[box]
DHCP: Interface 'inside' is currently configured as SERVER and cannot be changed to a CLIENT by a CLIENT feature
DHCP Client: can't enable DHCP Client when DHCP Server/Relay is running on the interface.
[/box]
Seen here on ASA Version 9.1(1)
Solution
There not a lot of information out there about this, but it it essentially caused because you enabled the Cisco ‘Call-Home’ function. If you want call-home on then configure it, but I did not. The reason you are seeing these is because when you first entered configuration mode you were prompted with this,
You can confirm that by issuing a show call-home command,
As you can see its enabled, if you want it on, then configure it, I don’t so I’ll simply disable call-home.
[box]
User Access Verification
Password: Type help or ‘?’ for a list of available commands. PetesASA> enable Password: ********PetesASA# configure terminal PetesASA(cfg-call-home)# call-home PetesASA(cfg-call-home)# no configuration all PetesASA(cfg-call-home)# exit PetesASA(config)#
[/box]
Finally save the changes.
[box]
PetesASA(config)# write mem
Building configuration...
Cryptochecksum: b984ffbc dd77cdbf f2cd8d86 0b8f3f96
3965 bytes copied in 1.490 secs (3965 bytes/sec) [OK]
PetesASA(config)#
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