Month: June 2010

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vCenter: Error parsing the server “(server IP)” “clients.xml” file

I got the above error today after running Windows Update on my XP VM a few days ago. A quick search showed that the error is caused by a Microsoft update to the .NET framework. To resolve it, remove update KB980773 (Add/Remove programs, make sure “Show Updates” is checked; KB980773 is under “Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2”). I removed it and was able to log in without problems.

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Edit 10/22/2010: You can also resolve this by upgrading your vCenter client to 4.1, which I recently did. 4.1 is available on vmware.com.

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vCenter: Error parsing the server "(server IP)" "clients.xml" file

I got the above error today after running Windows Update on my XP VM a few days ago. A quick search showed that the error is caused by a Microsoft update to the .NET framework. To resolve it, remove update KB980773 (Add/Remove programs, make sure “Show Updates” is checked; KB980773 is under “Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2”). I removed it and was able to log in without problems.

References:

Edit 10/22/2010: You can also resolve this by upgrading your vCenter client to 4.1, which I recently did. 4.1 is available on vmware.com.

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HOWTO: Install Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat Linux

Updated 8/31/2011 See my newer post on this subject.

I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got the Adobe Flash plugin working, it didn’t have any audio, which made YouTube kind of suck. Anyway, this of course was a solved problem, I just forgot where the fix was located… but duh, it’s on the Fedora website. A simple

yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 
    nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 
    libcurl.i686

and everything appears to be fine. Thank you Fedora!

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Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora 12 x86_64

I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got the Adobe Flash plugin working, it didn’t have any audio, which made YouTube kind of suck. Anyway, this of course was a solved problem, I just forgot where the fix was located… but duh, it’s on the Fedora website. A simple

yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \
    nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 \
    libcurl.i686'

and everything appears to be fine. Thank you Fedora!

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Hygiene Management?

I’m installing Exchange 2010 and in the docs it shows a bunch of groups that get created in the AD Schema during the domain prep part. After running prep, I looked to see if the groups were there, and sure enough they were (yay). What caught my eye was that one of the groups is called Hygiene Management. I thought maybe this was an Easter Egg from MS, but apparently it’s just the name of the group of people who can manage the Exchange antivirus/antispam features. Still funny though.