Author Archives: Martin
vSphere Performance Overview Page – This Program Cannot Display the Webpage
When trying to browse the performance overview tab in the vSphere client you may get an error stating “This program cannot display the webpage” but at the same time, however, the advanced tab works fine. Luckily, as vinf.net point out, this is … Continue reading
vSphere 5 : System logging is not configured on host
After upgrading the company vSphere environment to ESX5 hosts with only relatively small USB SSD drives for internal storage I was greeted with the message System logging is not configured on host… when I first logged into the hosts using the … Continue reading
Adding Single DNS hosts for external zones to a Windows DNS Server
Thanks to netlife for the following lifesaver when I was asked by a client to enable viewing of their own extranet sites via it’s external DNS address while the site was hosted in the same environment their own client PCs were. … Continue reading
Running an OEM operating system as a virtual machine – “This system is not supported platform”
I recently had to install Windows Small Business Server 2011 for a small client of ours. As with almost every install at the moment, the decision was made to do the install as a VM on ESX 5 as although … Continue reading
Battlefield 3 won’t open
Thankfully I’m amongst the lucky few who have a PC capable of playing this year’s most hyped game. Imagine my disappointment though when I first tried to run the game and nothing happened. No error, no window appearing quickly on … Continue reading
PES 2012 “Unable to access hard disk – Reselect hard disk”
While struggling to fix the FIFA problem described in my previous post I ventured back to the world of PES to see what had changed since I last played it back in 2008. It seems one thing that has changed is … Continue reading
FIFA 12 Micro freeze
According to the EA forum it seems I wasn’t the only one to find this years incarnation of the FIFA franchise unplayable when I first installed it. Despite my PC being well above the minimum spec I regularly found the game … Continue reading
Great North Run 2011
Creating outlook rules based on domain names
I recently had a request from a client running Office 2007 to create a rule that would take every incoming email from ”everyone@domain.com” and move them to a seperate folder (the deleted items folder as it goes, they were receiving excessive … Continue reading
VMware vCenter Error Call “PropertyCollector.RetrieveContents” for object “propertyCollector” on vCenter Server failed
When trying to convert a template to a VM in order to make some adjustments to the image I came across the following error: Call “PropertyCollector.RetrieveContents” for object “propertyCollector” on vCenter Server “VC” failed. After a lot of confusion and … Continue reading