30 09, 2011

Event ID 29 – KDC Certificate Availability

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00September 30th, 2011|Active Directory|11 Comments

Our organisation is going through a major restructuring phase these days and we’re converting from an “Empty Root with many Child Domains” to “Single Domain Forests” model.  Why did we go with the former model is a long story and definitely beyond the scope of this particular post so I’ll leave it for another day.  [...]

30 07, 2011

vSphere 5.0 and the new licensing model

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00July 30th, 2011|ESX, Strategy, vCenter, Virtualization, vSphere|0 Comments

For those of you who follow VMware products closely, the past couple of weeks have been quite interesting.  VMware has announced vSphere 5.0 which has a lot of new exciting features and as always, bigger limits for resources that people are unlikely to hit... ever!  However, it is unfortunate that this version of vSphere is making headlines [...]

31 05, 2011

VMware Data Recovery: “Unable to access file since it is locked”

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00May 31st, 2011|VDR, Virtualization|2 Comments

Recently, we ran into a problem which saw "VMware VirtualCenter Service" on one of our vCenter servers crashing after every restart.  In my last post here, I documented the whole incident and its solution.  If you read the post, you'll see that I had to delete a considerable number of accumulated snapshots from the affected VM [...]

30 05, 2011

Resolved: The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated unexpectedly

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00May 30th, 2011|ESX, vCenter, Virtualization, vSphere|11 Comments

A few days back, we were hit by a problem on one of our vCenter servers (vCenter 4.0 Update 1) in that the "VMware VirtualCenter Server" service starting failing.  The message in "System" event log was "The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this n time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 300000 milliseconds: Restart [...]

4 04, 2011

HTC Peep issue resolved: “The account was forbidden to access the Twitter server”

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00April 4th, 2011|HTC, Mobile, Windows Mobile|39 Comments

HTC recently released an updated ROM (version 3.14.110.1) for T-Mobile (UK) HTC HD2 phones (review of the update is here).  Updating to the new version is highly recommended as it makes the mobile more responsive, stable and power efficient.  However, one of the issues you get after upgrading is that HTC Peep stops downloading tweets from your Twitter account [...]

4 04, 2011

T-Mobile (UK) ROM Update for HTC HD2 (Version 3.14.110.1)

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00April 4th, 2011|HTC, Mobile, Windows Mobile|2 Comments

In February, HTC released a ROM update for T-Mobile (UK) HTC HD2 mobiles.  I happen to have one and was waiting for an update, due to some reliability issues with my mobile.  It was running ROM version 1.72.110.4.  Main issues were the requirement to reboot the phone every now and then, occasional locking up and quick drainage [...]

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