Veeam and Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 Issue

Veeam and Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 Issue

Attention Veeam and Microsoft Exchange 2016 users; if you are running Veeam B&R against your Microsoft Exchange 2016 environment, you may want to wait to upgrade to Exchange Cumulative Update 5. As noted in Veeam Digest, customers who upgraded to CU5 are experiencing restore failures while utilizing Veeam Explorer for Exchange. The specific restore failures pertain to mailbox item-level recoveries, which are failing due to a significant change in the mailbox database structure. Typically, users receive an error stating Invalid property…

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Configure vCenter Mail Sender and E-mail Alerts

Configure vCenter Mail Sender and E-mail Alerts

An update in the vCenter 6.5b patch that I have been anticipating is the ability to change the mail sender address vCenter utilizes for email alerts. Releases prior to 6.5b sent e-mail alerts from root@VCSA_FQDN by default. Even if the Mail Sender was changed within the appliance, e-mails would still have that same root return-path. This proved to be problematic in environments who leveraged SMTP relay servers to pass e-mail authentication or encryption (ie. Office 365 relays). Relay servers in those…

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Unhandled Exception Logging into ESXi 6.5 Host Client

Unhandled Exception Logging into ESXi 6.5 Host Client

In the last few weeks, I have seen several reports of people having issues logging into the ESXi 6.5 Host Client with Chrome or Chromium. When logging in, they receive an unhandled exception stating: Unfortunately, we hit an error that we weren’t expecting. The client may continue working, but at this point, we recommend refreshing your browser and submitting a bug report. The details of that exception state the cause is Error: [$rootScope:inprog] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.2/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest Unfortunately, I haven’t discovered a permanent…

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Install VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.3

Install VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.3

In this post, I wanted to walk through the deployment of VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.3. I had heard about this product in the past but had never gotten to leverage its capabilities. If you are like me, parsing through piles of logs may not be one of your favorite pastimes, especially in a crunch. Well, VMware aims to fix that with Log Insight. As per VMware, Log Insight is log collector and analyzer that enables faster and more efficient…

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VMware vSphere 6.5 Top Issues and Troubleshooting

VMware vSphere 6.5 Top Issues and Troubleshooting

This morning, VMware hosted a free webinar on vSphere 6.5 top issues and troubleshooting. If you are already on vSphere 6.5 or looking to make the jump, I would recommend watching the webcast. In it, VMware dove into top issues reported by customers and discussed how to identify and resolve said issues. If a resolution is not available, a workaround was given. If you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the issues and fixes discussed. Most issues have a…

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