This week, I would like to talk about the Windows agent available in Log Insight 2.0. First up, I would like to cover how to…
vCAC remote logging
I have been spending a lot of time working with vCAC logs files as of late and what I realized is that vCAC is made…
Is Microsoft's Log Parser a Windows Syslog Agent?
Someone recently asked me if Microsoft’s Log Parser application could be used as a syslog agent. To be honest, I had not heard of the…
Syslog Agents on Windows
In order to send events from a Windows device to a remote syslog server like Log Insight, you need a syslog agent. Windows does not…
Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to
If you receive the error message “Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to.” and do not…
PING: transmit failed, error code 1232
While testing a vCenter Heartbeat (vCHB) installation, I cloned the Windows VM used for vCenter Server, but did not use guest customization as the vCHB…
Default gateway on Windows system disappears on reboot
This appears to be an old problem that keeps popping up, but I just experienced it for the first time. I was tasked with deploying…
Windows XP – How to log in as administrator
So I installed a Windows XP VM the other day with a corporate ISO file. The initial login screen showed the administrator account and another…
Sluggish Windows Console
The other day, I created a Windows 2008 VM and installed VMware Tools on it. One thing I noticed upon reboot was that the console…
DCOM Error
Today, while working on a Windows jump box I received a Windows error message stating that DCOM had shutdown unexpectedly and as such the computer…