Printer Settings could not be saved, Operation could not be completed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Welcome Back!!!
Today i will share with all a incident which happened.. We had a request to change Printer settings like new IP and Name for a printer on a Windows 2008 Print Server.

So as usually we right clicked on the Printer, changed the name and went on to Add new Port, new IP and when we clicked Apply we started to see this error as below

After some troubleshooting we identified that it needs Windows Firewall to be enabled and running as by default we have Windows Firewall disabled on all Windows Servers. As soon as we enabled Windows Firewall we where able to Apply the settings.Why we need this to be enabled i will let you guys do some research....

Hope this helps someone, until next time you guys have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VMHardware Version for various flavours of VMware vSphere

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Welcome come back!!!

We started to perform Virtual Machine Hardware Version in our environment , having this chart little handy helped me, hopefully it may help someone!!!!

Windows 2008 booting failed with illegal Opcode

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We had patching this weekend and after we patched a Windows 2008 Server, the Server didn't come online and it started rebooting with the error as illegal opcode and with some flag errors as below

As part of troubleshooting we booted the Server with a Windows 2008 Bootable ISO and ran Check Disk..
After check disk was run, rebooted the Server and guess what ola!!! Server booted with no errors and came back online. What caused the error is still unknown, if anyone has any thoughts welcome to write back to me..


Hope this helps someone!!! till next time.. Have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to identify which Server Schedule job running from a Email it generates!!!!!!

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We had some Schedule job setup for VMware capacity to be reported via Email every week for like 5 Virtual center and we needed some modification to be done on the job so team started to search for it.

Team started to search on lot of Servers including our Virtual Centers to check where is the Schedule job setup and they had no clue to identify it as this was setup long time ago.. and finally this came to me.. Does anyone guessed? how to trace back the Server which is generating that mail?

If anyone guessed Internet Header then yes you are absolutely right!!!!!!!!!

We had outlook 2013, in case you don't know how to check the Internet Header , Open the message, click on that little arrow in the Tags and that will pull the properties page with Internet headers .

Now copy the text to a notepad and look for something called "Received: From " that will show you the host name and IP Address of the Server which was sending the mail out... Ola! resolved!!!!

Hope this helps someone!!!!!!!!!!