Issue Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V server System Event Logs are filled with the following warnings: Event ID: 8017Source: DNS Client EventsUser: Network ServiceDetails: The system failed to update and remove host (A or AAAA) resource records (RRs) for network adapterwith settings:Adapter Name : {CB032530-6E23-4220-8328-605853A9F603}           Host Name : SERVER-NAME       …

Issue Cannot download and install DELL PowerEdge T430 server firmware updates using DELL Lifecycle Controller, using online (FTP) method. After configuring the network and trying to connect to ftp.dell.com, the following error is shown: Warning Firmware Update Invalid IP Address or Share Name

Issue After upgrading DELL PowerEdge T430 Server iDrac v8 firmware to v2.85.85.85, admins can no longer log in to the iDRAC web GUI remotely. The remote access is via a public IP address forwarded on the firewall (TCP ports 443 and 5900). Obviously, the access is restricted to a few trusted source IPs. The connection…

Issue After installing Windows Updates on a Windows Server 2008R2 server, Veritas Backup Exec Administrative Console crashes on launch with the following error. BackupExec has stopped workingDetails:Problem signature:  Problem Event Name:    CLR20r3  Problem Signature 01:    BackupExec.exe  Problem Signature 02:    20.0.1188.1650  Problem Signature 03:    5b5b3903  Problem Signature 04:    mscorlib  Problem Signature…

DELL iDRAC 6 virtual console runs on Java and has always been a major pain in the backside. Almost every Java update breaks something, and who wants to install Java these days anyway… I recently had to revisit this topic. In order to avoid a long drive I needed to access a remote DELL PowerEdge…

Issue Windows Server 2016 (Hyper-V Host) shut down unexpectedly without any obvious external reason. The shutdown was graceful, not a crash or power cut. Windows Event System Logs contain the following related entries: Event ID: 109Source: Kernel-PowerDescription:The kernel power manager has initiated a shutdown transition.Shutdown Reason: Battery Event ID: 1074Source: User32Description:The process C:\Windows\system32\winlogon.exe (SERVER-NAME) has…

Issue viewer.jnlp downloaded from DELL iDRAC 8 admin console does not launch iDRAC Java virtual console application. The PC has 64bit Java SE Development Kit v17.0.1 installed. When the file is opened with C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-17.0.1\bin\java.exe, the command prompt opens and then immediately closes. The actual error is:Error: Could not find or load main classCaused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException When…

Microsoft started adding News and Interests feature to Windows 10 PCs around April 2021. This can be disabled on individual PCs by right-clicking on the taskbar and navigating to News and interests > Turn Off. To disable News and Interests in the Active Directory environment you can use Group Policy: Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates…

Issue QuickBooks multi-user access stopped working across the network. Following error pops up when opening QuickBooks Pro 2021 on a client computer. Problem with multi-user hosting setupError code: H202This company file is on another computer, and QuickBooks needs some help connecting. Here’s how to fix this problem:On the computer where the company file is located, open…

You can’t expand and display Dynamic Exchange Distribution Group members in Outlook like you can with a normal Distribution Group. The quick and easy Exchange PowerShell command to display Dynamic Distribution Group membership: Get-Recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter (Get-DynamicDistributionGroup “Group Name”).RecipientFilter Unfortunately, if your Distribution Group utilizes Recipient Container parameter, the above command will not work properly as it…

Issue Disk-based storage devices (network folders) in Veritas Backup Exec keep going into Read-only mode. To fix the issue, an administrator has to open storage device details page and set option Limit Backup Exec to read-only operations to No.The issue comes back a few weeks later.

Below is a quick tutorial to install Dell EMC OpenManage Administrator Node on Windows Server 2016 Core Hyper-V host.