Know what your Winsxs folder does!

Posted on May 10, 2012

Something I often come up against dealing with server systems is low space alerts.

Now it is important to remember at this point that a low space alert on a server is A LOT more serious than a low space alert on your typical Windows XP/7 desktop. Read the rest of this entry »

VMware vSphere client 4.0 crashing when downloading files

Posted on Feb 9, 2012

To be honest, I’ve been using VMware vSphere for some time and I’ve not encountered this issue before. Apparently this also happens when trying to upload, but I did not encounter this.

Very annoying, because it closes the vSphere client as well as the DataStore Browser… grrr.

Solution? Start the vSphere client as Administrator.

Similar to an issue raised in their KB here and here