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If you want to search the inventory with the vSphere Client and the search fails, it probably is an expected behaviour from VMware.  Details When logging in to vSphere Client using the Use Windows session credentials option, searching for inventory objects fails. You see the error: Login to the query service failed. The server could not interpret the communication from the client. (The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.) Solution Manually login with the VMware client. Searching for inventory objects when logged in to the vSphere Client using the Windows session Credentials, is not supported by VMware. Deselect use windows session credentials Enter your login Credentials Click login.

For exchange administrators it is sometime necessary to see how our Exchange databases are doing. You don't want that the database and transaction log on the datastores run out of disk space. Most of the time I want to see the blank space that is within a database. This blank space is sometimes called: Free space Free database pages Available Mailbox Space White space Checking White Space in Exchange 2010 Get the Whitespace from all the databases, run the following command: Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Sort-Object availablenewmailboxspace | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto Show all softdeleted and disabled mailboxes in Exchange 2010 After you choose the DB you want to clear the whitespace, please check the softdeleted and disabled mailbox accounts per database with the following command: Get-MailboxStatistics -Database " DB1 " | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate -Notlike $NULL} | Format-Table DisplayName, DisconnectDate, MailboxG...

When you connect your SharePoint library, you expect an SharePoint-sites directory in your profile. In this blogpost you will find some helpful information to get the SharePoint-sites directory in Windows 7. If you click in SharePoint, connect to office. It take some days when the SharePoint-sites directory appear within your profile (c:\users\username\sharepoint-sites). If you follow the steps below, you can speedup this process. First of all. Be aware that the webclient services is used to connect to the webdav pages of SharePoint. This process will start automatically when needed. But if you reading this post, it might be helpful to check this services on your workstation. There are two important registry keys. Check if the following registry keys exist: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Portal] "PersonalSiteURL"="https://personal.organisation.com/personal/username/" "LinkPublishingTimestamp"=hex:1f,b0,e5,5...

Life Cycle Management has designed to take care of all the necessary Dell tools, like the ones I mentioned in an earlier post: https://softwaredriven.blogspot.nl/2017/10/life-cycle-management-12-voor-dell-xc.html You can update components on production clusters in use. But it is recommended for the first time of running LCM 1.2, to do it during off-hours as the cluster requires a reboot per node to install iSM and PT Agent . This two components are necessary before the LCM can download the payload. Once the payload is downloaded, you can run an inventory again so LCM can determine what components need to be updated. Depending on the size of the cluster, this can take up to 10 minutes (for 3 node cluster) or longer depending on the number of components to be found. When you update a component, LCM put the host in maintenance mode. Then LCM put all the components in a queue to be updated. At the end of the update process, the system will do a reboot. After the reboot, the...

Life Cycle Manager allows you to view all software and firmware updates from a single pane of glass. From the LCM dashboard you can do an inventory for all the entities in the cluster. LCM support new features for the Dell XC platforms in version 1.2. LCM is supported for the Dell 13G hardware family on AHV and on ESXi 5.5 and 6.0. This release adds LCM inventory and update support for the following components: • BIOS • iDRAC • HBA controller • NIC • Data drives (SSD and HDD) All the Dell XC  updates are packaged within a Payload . A payload level determines what firmware versions are supported for LCM update. You can see on a fresh updated LCM on a Dell XC cluster the following dashboard: The Prism UI does not provide visiblility into the payload. Check this PDF for the current payloads for LCM 1.2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ntnx-portal/documentation/kb/lcm-dell-payloads-v1.2.pdf You can see multiple software the LCM has inventoried. I explain some of th...