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vCenter Converter Network Error

In trying to do a P2V on a machine I needed an image from, I logged onto my vCenter Server, launched vCenter Converter Standalone Client, clicked “Convert Machine” and immediately ran into the error: “A fatal error occurred. The reason for this might be a network connection failure. The wizard will close now. Please check your network connection and try again.” Continue reading vCenter Converter Network Error»

Unable to Deploy ThinApps?

If you are unable to deploy ThinApps, there are a few things you need to check. If you are getting a network access error, check my post here. If you are able to see the network share hosting your ThinApps, but are unable to actually deploy them you should check a few other things.

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vMware vSphere 5 - vMware Tools Upgrade

Among the new features of vSphere 5 is the ability to upgrade vMware Tools automatically from within vCenter. Simply find the machine whose Tools you wish to upgrade, right-click, go to Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. That much is the same as it was in 4.x, what’s new however is the dialog that pops up [...]

Design Patterns: A Quick Introduction

So the first thing I’ve decided to take a look at is design patterns. I’m going through the book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”. So many of my quotes will come from it, although there will be others from around the web.

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Web Sites for Photographers

After reading an interesting post and the corresponding discussion on Colby Brown’s page over on Google+, and having seen similar discussions elsewhere, I thought it might be a good idea to go a little more in-depth on the subject of Web Sites for Photographers. So if you are a photographer, please read on.

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Backing Up Your Photos (and other files)

Author’s Note: This is a cross-post from my photography blog over at Posterous. While this post talks about backing up photos it applies equally well to any files.

I’ve seen a few posts around the web recently that talked briefly about how to back-up your photos. Most of them just briefly touched on the subject, [...]

vMware ThinApp - Failed to Access the Network path

I’ve been trying to evaluate vMware ThinApp, but in setting up the ThinApp Repository I kept getting a “Failed to access the network path” error. I verified the share name, and the permissions. I was able to access the share from Windows Explorer, I even tried a registry hack located here. But to no avail. [...]

Installing SCCM – The Saga Ends

So if you’ve read my previous posts, here and here, you know what a trying time it has been for me to get SCCM 2007 installed properly on one of the servers I administer. Well, I have good news, its finally installed!

The problem is one I never would have thought of on my own, [...]

Installing SCCM...The Saga Continues

So we, ok really a co-worker, found the issue we were facing with installing SP2. It turns out that IE’s enhanced security feature was preventing the installer from contacting one of Microsoft’s web sites, which it needed to do to install successfully. Once we turned off the enhanced security for IE the install went fine.

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Installing SCCM…The Ongoing Saga

In my last post on installing SCCM, I mentioned having another issue. Receiving a “Fatal Error” during file transfer. That was a bit of a show stopper.

Silly me, I “assumed” that Microsoft would roll SCCM SP1 into SCCM SP2, which would mean only needing to install SCCM SP2. I was wrong. You have to [...]