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Outlook 2016: Remove Duplicate entries in Room Finder

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Office 365

In Outlook 2016 some users may noticed dual entries in the Room List:

The room list behavior that we see  in Outlook is by design. When we  use a Room List  for a meeting, it is stored in the  Most Recently Used entries in the registry. When we create a new meeting, we will see this MRU entry in the top of the Room Lists . The same Room List will be seen again in the drop down which is accessed from the Exchange Server/ Online.

To prevent the duplicate entries seen in the Room List, create the below registry entry with blank data to disable the  Most Recently Used  Room List in Outlook.

Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Preferences

Key: RoomFinderRecentRooms
Key: RoomFinderRecentRoomList

If these entry already exist just empty the values.

After Outlook Restart:

 Only single instance of the rooms list now showing! 🙂

How to restart management agents on ESX or ESXi host

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Linux VMware

If you are not unable to connect ESXi server to vCenter, or when you cannot connect to ESXi server from VI client it may be necessary to restart the management agents on ESX or ESXi host.

To restart the management agents on ESXi 6.x

This applies to ESX4/5.x/6.x

For the restart of the management agents (mgmt-vmware and vmware-vpxa) do the following:

Log in to SSH or Local console as root.
Run these commands:

Or also (alternative way)
To reset the management network on a specific VMkernel interface, by default vmk0, run the command:

Note: Using a semicolon (;) between the two commands ensures the VMkernel interface is disabled and then re-enabled in succession. If the management interface is not running on vmk0, change the above command according to the VMkernel interface used.

to restart all management agents on the host, run the command:

To restart the Management agents on ESXi Server – via the console:

1.) Connect to the console of your ESX Server and press F2
2.) Login as root and when using the Up/Down arrows navigate to Restart Management Agents.
3.) Press Enter and press F11 to restart the services.
4.) When the service has been restarted, press Enter. Then you can press Esc to logout of the system.

Screen should be similar to:

To restart the management agents on ESXi 4.x and 5.x:

From Local Console or SSH:
  1. Log in to SSH or Local console as root.
  2. Run this command:
You can also check:  Service mgmt-vmware restart may not restart hostd (1005566).

To restart the management agents on ESX Server 3.x, ESX 4.x:

  1. Login to your ESX Server as root from SSH session or directly from the console.
  2. Type service mgmt-vmware restart and press Enter
    Make sure that automatic Startup/Shutdown of virtual machines is disabled before running this command otherwise you might reboot the virtual machines. See more at 103312
  3. Type service vmware-vpxa restart and press Enter.
  4. Type logout and press Enter to disconnect from the ESX Server.

Successful output :

This may also server as a solution for the error “Unable to access file since it is locked. An error occurred while consolidating disks: One or more disks are busy.”

Mo Wasay
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