Recently my team and I ran into incident with and error while patching esxi servers using VMware Update Manager(VUM). When attempting o remediate the following error message was shown: “cannot remediate host because it is part of HA Admission Control enabled Cluster” Cause: vCenter Server uses admission control to ensure that sufficient resources are available in […]
Month: January 2018
I recently started using Hyper-V on my Windows 10 workstation to task advantage of using technologies such as Docker that leverages Hyper-V to run its container images. I also run VMware Player for running virtual machines. The following commands make it a simpler task to toggle Hyper-V on and off again. To Turn Hyper-V off, […]
Playing a bit of detective, I started reviewing Active Directory Group Policies that had been applied to workstations, in an attempt to resolve a few reported concerns regarding polices being applied successfully. Using the gpresult command I was able to output all of the polices applied. The command requires the specification of scope to be […]
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Blank Screen at Office 365 Login Page
Unsure what is going on with the Office 365 Infrastructure, however I have been having major issues all morning getting into my portal to manage resources. I’ve attempted multiple browsers without any further resolution to this issue. https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home shows only a blank page. Down Detector is showing an increased report of users facing incidents Ref: http://downdetector.com/status/office-365 Anyone […]
No need to go into the back story on this. If you are reading this, there is a chance you’ve already read other reports on what Meltdown / Spectre and the perceived risks. Cononical made a public statement last week to provide a patch for supported Ubuntu releases against Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, and the first […]
Like many folks around the world, I was wondering if this Meltdown and Spectre flaw would impact my computers and virtual machines. Microsoft has started to release emergency fixes for Windows 10 and its been said that Windows 8 and legacy 7 will also receive patches. Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that lets users […]