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Hi There, I’ve come across an issue with a few different customers whereby certain machines stop receiving virus definition updates and when you attempt to do this manually you get the following error; ‘Virus and Spyware definition updates failed…’ In both of these instances it seems the clients have received an update that is either faulty, or has not …

Hi There, Whilst working on a Server 2012 RP instance earlier, I needed to enable .NET 3.5 and tried doing so via the roles and features Wizard. I was greeting  with a response stating the source media could not be found. It seems the CAB files are not included and are left on the installation …

Hi There, I recently upgraded a customers VMM infrastructure from RC2 to RTM and had a couple of issues with the bare-metal deployments that I had previously configured. I was able to initiate a bare-metal build, and PXE boot the machine but as it was starting to provision I had an error relating to certificates; …

Hi There, Whilst working on a bare-metal build for a Hyper-V host (based on HP blades with iLO 3) today using SCVMM 2012 and Host Profiles I came across the following error; An out of band operation (IPMI) for the BMC <FQDN> failed The obvious first line of troubleshooting is to check the IP address …

Whilst at a customer recently I had a requirement to run a ‘Diskpart /Clean’ at the start of a task sequence to remove any encryption on the drive, in this case McAfee. I have done this several times in the past however always hit a few niggles so thought I would blog to refer to …