Windows could not finish configuring the system.
Recently, I was installing Windows 2008 R2 on a HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server. Found that the server was throwing an error message stating “Windows could not finish configuring the… Read more »
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Windows 2012 Network Share: The specified network name is no longer available
Shares created on Windows Server 2012 R2 are are inaccessible from Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008. When you try to access the share you will get… Read more »
VB Script to collect Windows server hardware details on multiple machines.
VB Script to collect Windows server hardware details. Script will Collect Serial Number, Make, Model, OS, CPU, RAM, Drive details on multiple servers remotely. Copy below contents and save as… Read more »
WintelAdmin.com Completes 5 Years.
I am very much exited and proud to announce that WintelAdmin.com has now completed 5 Years. As stated earlier, it all started on 28th June 2010 when I wrote… Read more »
Forcibly remove failover cluster feature.
Forcibly remove failover cluster feature. I was asked to take a clone of Windows 2008 server and release it to appliation team as a replacement server for another standalone Windows… Read more »
VMware Error 0x0000005D
When you try to install Windows Operating System, you would come across an error code 0x0000005D. This is purely an issue related to the virtual machine profile. Please validate if you… Read more »
VMware P2V or V2V gives error Unable to contact the specified host.
When you do a P2V or V2V of Windows 2008 server using VMware Converter you might get the below error: Unable to contact the specified host. The host is not… Read more »
Outbound Emails blocked on Windows Server.
Recently, came across an issue where the outbound SMTP mail where getting blocked. When checked the server and firewall settings everything looked very normal. Finally, the issue was with McAfee…. Read more »
Fix RDP on Windows 2003 without reboot.
A very common issue on a daily life of a Windows server administrator is that the users complaining about RDP issue. If the issue is with Windows 2008, that’s fine… Read more »
How to identify the SAN Disk in Windows 2008?
In order to perform a storage testing, one of the server were allocated with two different storage XtremIO and FED. Both the lun were added to server as a drive…. Read more »