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03 September

Veeam Jobs fail after adding new ESXi hosts

Written by Marco

When you add new VMware Hosts to a VMware vCenter Cluster, please remember to do a rescan of vCenter in Veeam. Veeam now rescans the complete environment and adds the new ESXi hosts to its database so everything will...

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01 September

Resetting an expired password in vCenter 5.1 Single Sign-On (SSO)

Written by Marco

A customer of ours was unable to login to their VMware vCenter 5.1 environment. I researched the environment and concluded that there SSO password was expired. Error messages in the vSphere webclient: “provided credentials are not valid”. Also the...

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09 January

Exchange 2010 error solved : The WS-Management service cannot process the request.

Written by Marco

When you try to open the Exchange 2010 Management Console, you may receive an error: The attempt to connect to http://exchangeserver.domain.local/Powershell user ‘Kerberos’ authentication failed: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WS-Management service cannot...

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16 August

After partition extend file system displays wrong disk size in Windows

Written by Marco

Recently I was working on a VM that has some free space problems on the Exchange partition of a Windows 2008 SBS server. So I extend the hard disk in VMware and Windows. That’s easy…. I extended the Hard...

Problem, VMware, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 VMware 34 Comments

29 January

Installation runs everytime we start Outlook 2013 application in Terminal services

Written by Marco

I was installing a Windows 2008R2 Remote Desktop Services Host with Microsoft Office 2013 when I ran into a strange thing. Every time I started Outlook 2013 there was a installation screen, “installing Microsoft Office 64-bit Components 2013”. This screen...

Office 2013, Problem, Windows 2008 R2 Microsoft 5 Comments

29 January

Solving the Invalid configuration for device ‘0’ error

Written by Marco

Today I noticed something strange in our brand new VMware vSphere 5.1 environment. I was trying to patch a Windows 2012 template when I noticed it didn’t have a network connection. This VM is using a Distributed Switch Configuration....

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18 January

Veeam backup file is not getting smaller when removing a VM from backup.

Written by Marco

I ran in to a problem with the VBK file size of a Veeam backup Job (running Veeam B&R 6.5). It didn’t fit on tape anymore. So I split up the Job into two different Jobs. One with important...

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