Working with the team in creating new virtual machine templates I found that some of our Windows 7 templates when they are being deployed with the following error: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter ProductKey. (StatusCode: 610–MandatorySysPrepEntryNotFound) I attempted to do some google searching which gave me no information for […]
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Of of my visitors wrote me asking how to uninstall Windows 10. I provided the steps in my response so I am sharing them here. Please *note* that these steps only apply to those upgrade installations of Windows 10. Open up Settings via the Start menu Click Update & Security and then Recovery Under the Go […]
Creating several templates in SCVMM today I encountered the an error with the id of ‘12700’ with the message: Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation on the s0106hvlab5.jermsmit.local server because of the error: ‘W10_64_jermsmit’ could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID B4B770E3-9DD7-4C3F-B2A5-36CA37151600) Not enough memory in the system to start the virtual machine W10_64_jermsmit with […]
Instruction on using System Center – App Controller 2012/R2 – Lab Server Environment The following is a simple set of instruction to get some of my lab users up and running quickly in System Center App Controller used as a self service portal for a lab environment Minimum Requirements to Use • IE 8, 9 or […]
Listen ‘tracert’ its not you, its me… I am not ending my long term relationship with the diagnostic tools which I have used for many years now. I am just exploring others, and in doing so going on a “break”. I recently starting using PowerShell more often and wondered is there a tool which can do […]
The day would come where I would need to change my password in vCenter… Today was that day; Thankfully vCenter places am informative notice of your expiring password. Here is how you can change your password using vCenter 6: Log into vCenter 6 Click Home. Click Administration. Click Single Sign-On > Users and Groups. Click the Users […]