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Windows Server Installation Stuck on the First Screen 24 May 2013 | 04:15 am
I recently faced pretty interesting issue – I could not install Windows Server 2003 on DELL PowerEdge 2950. Even though I used DELL build utility and did not see any error messages or warnings, as soo...
error = (converter.fault.CloneFault) Unknown exception 12 Jan 2013 | 12:06 am
I needed to run P2V conversion across two domains. All the required ports were open, but at 1% of progress I got the error with this message in a log file: –> state = “error”, –> cancelled = false, –>...
RDP Fails After Server Restart; No Process Listens on Port 3389 1 Oct 2012 | 05:17 am
I faced really interesting problem – one of our servers stopped responding to RDP after server restart. I spent some time trying to troubleshoot it. This article from Microsoft gives good a course of...
Setting up the Programmatic Access in Outlook 2007/2010 25 Sep 2012 | 05:06 am
For a PCI-related product we have recently installed, I’ve needed to run a script that reads an Outlook mailbox and analyze the message content. Nothing special, but Outlook stops script with the foll...
Install-VMHostPatch fails with Invalid Patch Archive error 23 Sep 2012 | 06:00 am
The Install-VMHostPatch command fails with the Invalid patch archive error: [vSphere PowerCLI]> Install-VMHostPatch -vmhost 10.10.10.1 -LocalPath “C:\ESX\Update\ESX410-201104001.zip” -hostusername roo...
IIS-SQL application does not work on Windows 2008 R2 23 Sep 2012 | 04:35 am
We have recently migrated one of our IIS applications with SQL database on background from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. And it stopped talking to database. Same ports opened, same ODBC connector c...
Uninstalling/Upgrading the DELL Server Administrator (OMSA) forcibly 14 Jul 2012 | 10:51 am
Yesterday I found a really old DELL server in out system – PE 4600 with Server Administrator v1.0.0 on it. This version is really old and does not have some feature we use, so the decision was to inst...
Reconfiguration Error in VMware Converter 3 Jun 2012 | 04:43 am
Recently I needed to virtualize a physical server using VMware standalone converter. Several attempts brought the same result: the reconfiguration error Converter-server log contained the following e...
Installing the SSL certificates in ESX environment 25 Apr 2012 | 06:50 am
I cannot say it is difficult to install trusted CA certificates in ESX environment. However, I’ve read many VMware KB articles to install them properly. Also, I’ve got one corrupted certificate, so th...
Synchronization problems between Exchange Server and Outlook 21 Dec 2011 | 08:15 am
There is a good Microsoft article, explaining how to fix synchronization issues between Exchange and Outlook, when some Exchange objects do not appear in Outlook. However, a small part should be added...
