Tried to migrate a physical Windows 2003 server into a VMware VM using vCenter Converter tonight and was giving me the following error at about 91% both times I tried… “FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s).Error code:2147549183 (0x8000FFFF)” Turned out to be caused by a corrupt registry key on the source server, which can be manually fixed however Microsoft have handy a fix-it app that solved the problem for me straight away… Download and run it from here… Hope t…
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If you have a problem connecting to network shares in Windows Explorer and “net view server” or “net use z: serverShare” is giving error code 53, it might be due to the network location for that NIC. If it is set to Public it will cause this, so change it to Work or Home.…
We recently started using HAProxy to load balance between two application servers for both HTTP and HTTPS traffic. It was really easy to get working, has worked great so far and we’re really pleased with it. The only issue we had was with our login cookies, which are set via FormsAuth, as when logging in our visitors use HTTPS and might get a different server to the one they were ‘stuck’ to with HTTP which uses a cookie to ensure the same server. HAProxy can’t read a cookie from an SSL stream as…
I had to logon to a client’s computer today to have a look at an issue with some software I’d created. They have LogMeIn on all their computers and I got the error “LMIRfsClientNP.dll is not a valid windows image” when I logged on. I fairly quickly found that this is caused by LogMeIn itself. So I connected to their VPN, then RDP’d in to the problematic PC, uninstalled LogMeIn and reinstalled it and the problem went away.…