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Hello all – if you have ever setup Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) then you probably have run into a situation where you could not login. There appears to be a password expiry somewhere…all I know is that on the rare …
Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator – Force “admin” password update Read more »
Today had to solve a problem with my vSphere’s Update Manager (affectionately known as the “vUM”). The vUM’s job is to download patches from the VMware site and figure out which hosts / appliances / VMs need to be updated. …
VMware Update Manager: Fix for “Scanning virtual appliance” Read more »
Hi All…as part of vCloud Director proof-of-concept I discovered this troubling problem: It is impossible to switch LDAP from Simple to Kerberos and allow existing vCloud Director admin users / groups to login. See below for the gory details:
As part of last-ditch effort to cram my brain with all things vSphere-related prior to my VCP5 exam, I ran into an online test available at Pass4Test.com. Wow – what a disaster!
Hello all – just solved a difficult problem where my vSphere SSO upgrade failed with mysterious error 1603.
Anytime a non-routable network connection (any IPv4 network adapter that does *not* have a default gateway specified) is configured for a Windows Server 2008 server, the operating system will mark that network connection as an “Unidentified Network”. The downside? Windows …
Solve “Unidentified Network Error” for Windows Server 2008 Read more »
Hello All – another chapter in the long-running story of ESXi integration in a significant project I have worked on for the 6 months: namely, the decision to upgrade ESX from 3.5 to version 5.1 was made. As all of …
The C# ObservableCollection provides a great way for developers to handle automatic inserts and deletes and to implement a Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) approach within C# applications; this article extends this model to the objects contained within the ObservableCollection.
Click here to download “3rd-Party Updates” now! Found great link at Use a batch file and group policy to cleanly update Java but my use case was different: lots of machines are not in domain (eck), I don’t want to …
Update JRE and Firefox on Windows Servers – Improved Read more »
The vSphere solution allows Storage vMotion and other functions that require the greatest amount of bandwidth possible, especially given the fact that we do leverage local blade storage for particular VMs. (What we lose in resiliency we gain back in …