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 […]
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And… its time to purge those 365 deleted users. Although we can wait for the retention policy to do it for us. I wanted to do this “now”. I had wrote the following steps in the past and thought I would share here. [Press Start] To delete the account for one or more users Sign […]
You are looking for a way to restart Windows 8 from a remote desktop session. You have come to the right place. I’m going to help you get past missing the good old Windows 7 method of clicking Start > Windows Security > and Restart / Shutdown. For Windows 8 things have changed. The way […]
The application is called PsShutdown, and is downloadable for free: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ PsShutdown is quite similar to “regular” shutdown – the former accepts the same parameters as the latter, but has various additional features, such as logging off users, locking the work station, and foremost: shutdown of the system when nobody’s logged in, or when the console is locked. Usage […]
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The Daily Reboot —
There are times when you had a bad system and know it. And the action to keep it available is rebooting daily. While I am not in favor of the reboot, it may be necessary. So I use the following steps on a pesky Ubuntu server I know. Log into your Ubuntu server and ‘sudo […]
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Kernel Panic Reboot (Ubuntu)
While I never had this happen on my Ubuntu Web Server, I have known a system in my life that seems to panic and lock up. Ubuntu Server doesn’t have this enabled by default, so I enabled it by adding the following to /etc/sysctrl.conf ‘kernal.panic=60’ This will auto reboot my server 60 seconds after a […]