VMM 2016 Install Virtual Guest Services On All VMs
After moving some VMs from local machines into our Hyper-V cluster. Some needed their Guest Service installing so they could be managed properly. Once you have run the script below, you should see the “Change properties of virtual machine” tasks…
Update Rollup 2.1 for System Center VMM 2016
Last week Microsoft released update rollup 2.1 for VMM 2016. In addition to the fixes in Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager, the fixes for the following issues are included in this update rollup: You can’t update…
VMM 2016 (Virtual Machine Manger) – Unmount All ISO’s
After upgrading our VMM server from 2012 to 2016. I wanted to restructure our ISO library a bit. Before I did this I wanted to see what VMs had images mounted in our Hyper-V estate, as moving ISO’s would cause…
“The User Profile Service Failed The Sign-in” Windows Server
One of our lab Exchange servers got into a state where only users that had signed into the server before could sign in. Anyone that hadn’t logged into the server via remote desktop before was receiving the error “The User…
Upgrade To Powershell Version 5
I needed to upgrade one of our Windows 2012 R2 servers from Powershell 4 to Powershell 5. So that I could take advantage of the Install-Module command from the Microsoft gallery. To find out what version of Powershell you are…
Delete All Resources From Azure Subscription Via Powershell
After having a few weeks testing some azure automation scripts. My subscription was littered with over 150 resource groups with loads of resources. Running the simple script below via powershell deletes EVERYTHING form your current subscription. This can take a…
TFS – Build Cannot Be Deleted Due To Build History
We have many builds that haven’t been run in years. Today I went to clear out some old ones but imminently got this error. Unable to perform the action requested. Refresh the page and try again. Details: TF215032: Build definition…
PowerShell – Debug From Visual Studio
It’s been a while since I have had time to write about anything. But this was so good I had to post it. Being someone that uses powershell a lot in my day to day job. Debugging is has always…
Plesk MySQL Server – Another MySQL daemon already running with the same unix socket
The past couple of mornings I have found my MySQL server has stopped on one of my CentOS servers that runs Plesk. When you browse to Plesk you get the following error…
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When you try and restart the MySQL…
InstallShield – The product license has expired or has not yet been initialized.
While working on some TFS 2010 Workflow builds I got the following error.. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\InstallShield\2013Limited\InstallShield.targets (108): -7159: The product license has expired or has not yet been initialized. After digging about for a bit, it turns out that the…
