Windows: ‘Trust Relationship Failed’
Apr15

Windows: ‘Trust Relationship Failed’

Trust Relationship KB ID 0000504 Problem Seen on Windows clients in a domain environment. The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed What’s Happened? Put simply, just like you have a password for your user account, the computer you log onto also has a password (you just never see it), it gets reset (by default) every thirty days, and all this runs in the background. For a lot of different...

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Export VM to a Local Folder
Apr01

Export VM to a Local Folder

Export VM KB ID 0001912 Problem We had a situation recently where a client who was leaving us needed to take their data, the VM in question was very large (12.5Tb in size) Exporting to an OVA file was problematical, (due to the size of the file). So Getting the flat files for the VM seemed like the best option. Solution : Export VM Firstly when using PowerShell there’s a tendency for it to use the %TEMP% and %TMP% directories to store...

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VMware: Export a VM to OVA With PowerCLI
Mar25

VMware: Export a VM to OVA With PowerCLI

OVA KB ID 0001507 Problem : Creating OVA files It’s pretty easy to create an OVA/OVF from the vCenter Web console, but what about from Powershell / PowerCLI? Below I run though converting a Windows server to OVA. Note: Update 25/03/25 – Had a friend try and do this today, the VM was very large (over 12Tb) it proceeded to create the conversion in the servers c:\windows\temp directory. Obviously, this is not good! If you encounter...

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Install Windows Terminal on Windows Server 2022
Mar19

Install Windows Terminal on Windows Server 2022

Windows Terminal KB ID 0001827 Problem Note: Terminal is already built into Windows 11. I’ve been aware of Windows Terminal for a while, I’ve just never felt the need to set it up. Most of my work for the website involves me taking screenshots on Windows Server OS. So, when I decided to take a look at it I had to jump through a few hoops to get it to work, in the words of Juan Sánchez Villalobos Ramírez, Chief metallurgist to King...

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Hyper-V Enable Nested Virtualisation
Aug27

Hyper-V Enable Nested Virtualisation

Enable Nested Virtualisation KB ID 0001888 Problem Note: Also the solution for Hyper-V on windows 11 If you want to enable virtualisation in a VM that is running inside Hyper-V (itself a hypervisor). Then you need to expose the virtualisation elements of the physical hosts processor to the nested VM. In the case of Intel VMs that’s VTx and EPT. (For Intel based CPUs). Under VMware you would simply enable “Expose hardware...

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