Today I encountered a, to me, previously unseen error while attempting to upgrade the firmware of a customers EqualLogic PS4000 SAN. The error showed: Insufficient free space to extract the kernel file; required: 24 MB, available: 22 MB I connected using FTP to the dedicated management IP of the EqualLogic group […]
Veeam troubleshooting: Failed to login to “vcenter.domain.local” by SOAP, port 443, user “”, proxy srv: port:0 Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
Today one of our regular customers called with a wierd error. After upgrading their VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter to 5.1 (unsupported) they could suddenly no longer backup VMs one of their two hosts using Veeam. The log would show: Failed to login to “vcenter.domain.local” by SOAP, port 443, user “”, proxy srv: port:0 Cannot […]
Tip: Allow end-users to install printer drivers despite UAC
Today a customer called and the issue being end users on their remote desktop servers are unable to install printer drivers from their print server, hence they call support! Simply allow this using 2 GPO’s: Set this to disabled: Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Option\Devices: Prevent users from installing printer drivers. and set both drop-Down […]
Recover Exchange 2010 database when corrupted
Today I had a customer where his Exchange server was unfortunately not properly shutdown and after powering on the mailbox database was unable to mount. First I checked the state of the database using: eseutil /mh “d:\path\to\store.edb” Unfortunately the state was “Dirty Shutdown”. Next step was to check the state of the log files using: eseutil […]