Quite often, VMWare administrators are faced with the fact that the list of virtual machines contains VMs with the Invalid (Unknown) status. As a rule, the issue occurs after deleting a virtual machine, which data remained in the VMWare vSphere/ESXi configuration on some reason. This can also happen after you manually remove VM files from the VMFS storage after running vMotion and in some other cases. You won’t be able to delete such a VM from vSphere Web Client using the built-in tools (the Unregister option in the Actions menu is inactive).
A mandatory user profile is a special pre-configured type of roaming user profile than can be changed only by administrators. Users who have been assigned a mandatory profile can work…
I had an old, but reliable HP Microserver N40L. I had been using it 24/7 since 2012. It was running ESXi 5.1. There was a couple of 2003R2 servers (a…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2012 R2
Copying Large Files over an Unreliable Network Using BITS and PowerShell
January 28, 2021As a rule, in local and global networks, files are transferred between devices using SMB, FTP or HTTP protocols. The problem of all these protocols is some troubles with resuming…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2
Fix: Clock Reverts to Wrong Time After Computer (Server) Reboot
October 12, 2020In this article, we’ll consider why the system clock displays incorrect time and date after a shutdown, restart or resuming from hibernation of a laptop/computer/server. Time is reset each time…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2
Unable to Start or Connect to Virtual Disk Service in Disk Management
January 28, 2019I came across one strange error when trying to extend the size of the hard disk partition on Windows Server 2012 R2. After opening the Disk Management console (diskmgmt.msc), the…
- Windows 10Windows 8Windows Server 2012 R2
Managing Printers from the Command Prompt in Windows 10 / 8.1
April 19, 2023Today we’ll talk about opportunities for managing printers and their drivers from the command prompt in Windows 10/ 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2/ 2016. We will consider how to…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Enable Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) on Windows Server?
October 20, 2022Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have NTFS permissions (Read or List) on a network shared folder in order to access them.…
Let’s look at how to create a simple administrator notification system when someone adds a new user to the important Active Directory security group. For example you want to track…
- Windows 10
Error 0x80073CFA: Can’t Uninstall Apps using Remove-AppxPackage in Windows 10
December 12, 2018Starting from Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update), several new built-in universal apps appeared in the system and you cannot remove them using the standard procedure. For example, when you try…