How to get your Dell Service Tag from the command prompt

How to get your Dell Service Tag from the command prompt-

Type-
wmic bios get serialnumber

You try to upgrade a VMware ESXi host and get "conflicting vibs"

You try to upgrade a VMware ESXi host and get "The system encountered the following error(s)." "conflicting vibs"

SSH into the host.

esxcli software vib list | grep Mell

esxcli network nic liste

sxcli software vib remove -n net-mst

How to get an old iDrac7 to work with Java

Note- this is a bad idea from a security standpoint, so bear that in mind.



Open a command prompt as Administrator

Navigate to-  C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_131\lib\security

Edit java.security (notepad)

Remove the algorithms jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms and comment out the line that begins with jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=.

Autodiscover fails, Outlook says account is not found or password is invalid.

Autodiscover fails, Outlook says account is not found or password is invalid.

You go to https://<domain.com>/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml is accessible.  Some jack-hole web guy set up autodiscover on the website.  You can edit the registry to exclude the root domain.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover\
DWORD: ExcludeHttpsRootDomain
Value: 1

The other records you can exclude, also under the Autodiscover key are as follows. Use a value of 1 to enable, delete the key if you no longer want to exclude these checks.

DWORD: ExcludeScpLookup
DWORD: ExcludeHttpsAutoDiscoverDomain
DWORD: ExcludeHttpRedirect //I DON’T EXCLUDE THIS ONE BECAUSE I USE IT
DWORD: ExcludeSrvRecord

To resolve permanently, log into cpanel and change the email routing from Local Mail Exchanger to Remote Mail Exchanger.

You install Office Updates and Office Volume License tells you it isn't activated.

You install Office Updates (namely KB3141505, KB3128055, KB3127907 or KB3118330)  and Office Volume License tells you it isn't activated.

Go to the command prompt, run as administrator.
CD \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16 or the equivalent.
Type- cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
Grab the "Last 5 Characters of installed product key:" for each product has an error errorse)
Type- cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey: and the last 5 of the product key.

VMware VCSA 6.0 Won't Boot, password is expired and out of disk space

You decide to reboot your VMware VCSA 6.0 and discover it won't start.  Further, you can't log into it.  A fun easter egg VMware built in is that the root password expires after 90 days and log files tend to fill up the server.

To reset the root password-

Boot FULLY into the vcenter appliance.  It will take like 45 minutes.

Reboot, when the GRUB Menu comes up hit Space.  Then hit "P", the password is either your root password or "vmware".

Make sure "kernel" is highlighted, press "e".

Add a space at the end and add "init=/bin/bash", press "b" to boot.

To clear the password history, type echo "" > /etc/security/opasswd

Use the same root password as before so the database starts, to change the root password, type passwd root

To mount the file system, type mount

Type df to check the dispace, if it is at 100% do the following-

cd /var/log/audit

rm -rf auto.log.*

unmount /

mkfifo /dev/initct fi

reboot -f

Unable to backup workgroup servers with Veeam

You are attempting to back up workgroup servers with veeam with application aware processing, however Veeam fails not being able to access the ADMIN$ share.

To disable UAC remote restrictions, follow these steps:    

 - Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

 - Navigate to the following registry subkey: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

 - Create a new DWORD 32-Bit Value called LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy

 - Set the value to 1.

In my experience, you do not have to reboot.