reset – Mohammed Wasay https://www.mowasay.com Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:53:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.mowasay.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-me-32x32.jpg reset – Mohammed Wasay https://www.mowasay.com 32 32 ConfigMgr 2012 R2 – WSUS sync fails with HTTP 503 errors https://www.mowasay.com/configmgr-2012-r2-wsus-sync-fails-with-http-503-errors/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:43:47 +0000 https://www.mowasay.com/?p=967
Ran into this issue with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 where it was unable to synchronize Software Update Point with the WSUS server. A review of the component status messages for the SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER component on the primary site server reveals errors related to WSUS synchronization which are similar to the following:
[su_note note_color=”#efacad”]Message ID: 6703 WSUS Synchronization failed. Message: The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable. Source: Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.CreateUpdateServer. [/su_note]
Got the following error when trying to open Update Services on the WSUS server

[su_note note_color=”#efacad”]Error: Connection Error An error occurred trying to connect to the WSUS server. This error can happen for a number of reasons. Please contact your network administrator if the problem persists. Click the Reset Server Node to connect to the server again. [/su_note]

In addition to the above, attempts to access the URL for the WSUS Administration website (i.e., http://CMCASSERVER:8530) fails with the error:

[su_note note_color=”#efacad”]HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable[/su_note]

In this situation, the most likely cause is that the WsusPool Application Pool in IIS is in a stopped state, as shown below.

Also, the Private Memory Limit (KB) for the Application Pool is probably set to the default value of 1843200 KB.

If you encounter this problem, increase the Private Memory Limit to 4GB (4000000 KB) and restart the Application Pool. To increase the Private Memory Limit, select the WsusPool Application Pool and click Advanced Settings under Edit Application Pool. Then set the Private Memory Limit to 4GB (4000000 KB).

After the Application Pool has been restarted, monitor the SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER component status, wcm.log and wsyncmgr.log for failures. Please note that it may be necessary to increase the Private Memory Limit to 8GB (8000000 KB) or higher depending on the environment.

Now WSUS is back online!

]]> Reset Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS 120 Day Grace Period https://www.mowasay.com/reset-windows-server-2012-r2-rds-120-day-grace-period/ https://www.mowasay.com/reset-windows-server-2012-r2-rds-120-day-grace-period/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:21:01 +0000 https://www.mowasay.com/?p=817 The RD Licensing grace period has expired and the service has not registered with a license server with installed licenses. A RD Licensing server is required for continuous operation. A Remote Desktop Session Host server can operate without a license server for 120 days after initial start up.

The official solution is to Activate the RDS/TS CAL License server and point the Server to License server with User/Device License and will be resolve the problem, but if you want to reset the timer and again avail the 120 days grace time here is the solution:

Delete the REG_BINARY in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod

To delete the key you must take ownership and give admin users full control.

After a restart of the server RDS will reset the grace period to 120 days.

]]> https://www.mowasay.com/reset-windows-server-2012-r2-rds-120-day-grace-period/feed/ 1 Remove licensing from ESXi host https://www.mowasay.com/vmware-remove-licensing-from-esxi-host/ Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:37:10 +0000 http://www.mowasay.com/?p=514 WARNING: This is for education/informational testing/development purposes only, and should not be used on a production server.

WARNING: This trick will only work with an ESX(i) stand alone server.  It will not work if the ESX(i) server is connected to a vCenter Server, as the vCenter Server knows better than to let you do this.  (you can always remove and readd the ESX(i) server to vCenter.)

To reset your ESX 4.x, ESXi 4.x and ESXi 5.x 60 day evaluation license:

  1. Login to the TSM through SSH or Shell
  2. Remove the following two files: 
    1. /etc/vmware/vmware.lic
    2. /etc/vmware/license.cfg
  3. Reboot server

If your ESX server is connected to a vCenter server, please remove the ESX server first.  Once the steps above are completed, you can add it back to the vCenter server.

Command to remove the license and reboot the ESX host:

rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg
reboot

After reboot, logging on the ESXi server, you should be greeted with this message.

60-day-evaluation

For ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5, you may need to continually remove the license files as the server reboots for this to work.  The following should do this quite nicely:

rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg
reboot ; while true ; do
    rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg
done

An alternative would be restarting the services, it should work just as well as rebooting the server:

# For ESXi 5.0
rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg
services.sh restart
# For ESXi 5.1
rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg
cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart

For vCenter
1) Create a DSN to your local SQL Express instance that holds your vCenter DB.
2) Uninstall virtual center
3) Re-install virtual center and point to your DSN making sure not to overwrite.

With this method, I have been able to refresh my 4.1 and 5.0 hosts.  Have not confirmed if this works for 5.1.

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