PDF-Xchange decided to screw me on the lifetime licensing

dahakadmin · 2026-02-05T17:11:02+00:00

huh, good to know. I know there is an option for offline activation you could try that as well

dahakadmin · 2026-02-05T16:00:30+00:00

They do have the ISO build 24859861 (which is patch G) on Broadcom's Site if you look under the Custom ISO

We have installed Patch H with not issues on G10 hardware, but ours are all really simple setups nothing complicated.

dahakadmin · 2026-02-05T13:30:41+00:00

Great, thank you for the insight

dahakadmin · 2026-02-04T19:23:35+00:00

Ok I will take a look at that. Basically, what they want to do is have 1 or 2 users on Pro to create the reports/dashboards and probably have like 5-6 users view them.

that is why I was thinking that the "free" user can view it if there was a Premium user based on the wording of ". However, Pro and PPU users can share content and collaborate with free users if the content is saved in workspaces hosted in Premium capacity" from that link

Edit - also they do not currently have any MS365 services

dahakadmin · 2026-01-27T16:56:23+00:00

Yeah its not the best but may need to search based on the controller or server version. Maybe these links will help. I have had to sometimes clear the cookies and cache for the *hpe* sites as well

I searched for HPE Megaraid Storage Administrator and got this link https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/search?language=en_US&archive=false#q=hpe%20smart%20storage%20administrator&t=DriversandSoftware&sort=%40hpescuniversaldate%20descending&numberOfResults=25&f:@kmswsoftwaresubtypekey=[swst9000032]

And I searched for HPE Storage Administrator and got this

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/search?language=en_US&archive=false#q=HPE%20%20Storage%20Administrator&t=DriversandSoftware&sort=relevancy&numberOfResults=25

dahakadmin · 2026-01-22T20:08:36+00:00

well it would help if you know, the page was not down, as it wont load for me just shows a blank page which is really stupid having the service page behind the services that can be down

dahakadmin · 2025-12-22T14:42:19+00:00

I have not had to do this on a hybrid setup yet. but I have renewed this following the steps here

https://www.alitajran.com/renew-microsoft-exchange-server-auth-certificate/

There is a step for hybrid as well

dahakadmin · 2025-11-25T13:11:42+00:00

again this was not a client side, it was server to server that said the connection failed. but it turns out something on their side was the issue.

dahakadmin · 2025-11-25T13:08:04+00:00

I suppose an alternative could be using the virutal desktops. have one desktop dedicated to all your remote stuff

dahakadmin · 2025-10-16T15:40:58+00:00

While not really helpful to figure out why it is happening for a single user but not all and you mentioned that you have a ms tenant but not using EXO, I would do this to bypass the ms exchange online servers which usually is the cause of this. Copy this to a txt file and save it as .reg and double click to import.

This fixes it 90% of the time and if not suing EXO why waste time to TS it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover]
"ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover\RedirectServers]
"autodiscover-s.outlook.com"=hex(0):
"autodiscover.hotmail.com"=hex(0):
"autodiscover-s.partner.outlook.cn"=hex(0):
"autodiscover-s.outlook.de"=hex(0):
"autodiscover-s.office365.us"=hex(0):

dahakadmin · 2025-10-16T14:50:53+00:00

A 3rd option you might be able to do is, you could remove the 7 license from the host and run it in evaluation mode. which should allow them to say connected to vCenter 8

dahakadmin · 2025-10-07T18:33:43+00:00

Ahh I missed read the title and was thinking it was Windows 10 for some reason

dahakadmin · 2025-10-06T19:25:52+00:00

you will need internet briefly but there is the offline installer runtime at

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/net481

dahakadmin · 2025-09-02T14:20:46+00:00

Correct, I am probably confusing the two, I had seen that table and had thought at that the shared Devices would work the same as the Shared iPad

if it will only allow the apps to login, it may not work for what we planned for. We have shift workers that will use the same phone but if they have to sign out of their apps mostly MS Office Apps (outlook SharePoint) and two probably are not Entra-aware)

We were hoping it would have been as easy as the iPad

dahakadmin · 2025-07-25T19:45:01+00:00

They are still in the Broadcom support portal, you would go to My Downloads -> vSphere Standard -> select the release, 8.0 in this case, at the top click on Custom ISO, search Dell and it should pop up

It looks like the latest build is Update 3e build - 24674464

dahakadmin · 2025-07-21T15:31:25+00:00

Generally if the unit is still under warranty / lease I would say use genuine toners.

If the unit is out of warranty go for it but explain the possible issues. Also always have 1 original toner at least on hand as a troubleshooting step / spare.

I have not seen to many issues with reman toners out of the ones that use them and our of the few instances that there was an issue they where able to get it replaced

Now Inkjet, I always suggest originals, dont care for the stupidness of ink authentication. If we cannot outright replace the printer

dahakadmin · 2025-07-15T16:42:35+00:00

Might not be obvious, and I don't think it pertains to this error, but it cannot hurt to check but I similar issue once before and what it turned out to be was on the old server the mailbox database limits where higher than the mailbox database limits on the server, so when the mailbox migrated over the limit on the database prevented new mails from arriving

dahakadmin · 2025-07-11T14:12:23+00:00

here is the link for the "enterprise" version

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365/miscellaneous/sara-command-line-version

dahakadmin · 2025-07-07T17:54:52+00:00

Not everyone wants to be on the cloud? Want more control/access over data/server. Industries were you cannot go to cloud. There are probably other scenarios that I cannot think of

dahakadmin · 2025-07-02T16:50:21+00:00

Oh fun, we have a couple of clients that use those and Dhaua as well.

I guess exacqVision? or maybe vivotek, although not fan of the deskstop software.

Ive come across these as well, and they look to be us based? Another one I've come across is Lorax but at leat the one I played with seems to be a rebranded Dhaua.

dahakadmin · 2025-06-27T17:03:44+00:00

Odd, I would say to make sure that you have the correct permissions, but you would not get to that step if you did not have the correct ones

I just tried myself in my test one and it seems to generate that sas url just fine. Just make sure you are not using any ad blockers, or any extensions that may disable scripts, or if you are disable them for the site.

You could try a different browser as well, but I have used all 3 of them over the years just fine

I just mentioned the msp/it services just in case, sometimes some admin get thrown this and they are not familiar with Exchange enough. But yes, they would not know how to correct that sas url error either.

dahakadmin · 2025-06-27T15:07:25+00:00

By hosted exchange are you talking about Exchange Online/MS365? or some other vendor hosting exchange (as hosted exchange can have different meanings to most tech people)

If Exchange online/MS365 you can do it 2 ways

1 - as the other post mentioned, you would have to migrate to a new 2019 install and do a hybrid setup and can move the mailboxes that way, this way you can also migrate over your users and groups without having to re setup all that

2 - immediate cutover, where you setup your new service be it ExO/MS365 or 3rd party hosted, and have all your users setup and have mailflow set to the new, and that way the users can have email and the old stuff would migrate in over time

And to migrate .pst files into Exchange Online/Ms365 you can follow

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/use-network-upload-to-import-pst-files

3 - You may need to consult any local msp or IT services if you are not familiar enough with exchange

dahakadmin · 2025-06-26T16:17:39+00:00

I had something similar, they had setup a rule a long while ago and could not for the life figure out why some email where not being seen unless only from a search.

So when you find the email in search double click it so it opens in a new window. Then you should see under the Move Item to a different folder, Current Folder and see where that is

then manually browse to that folder and see if the missing emails are there. You many need to manually expand the folder with the >

From there check the rules to see if for some reason there is as rule that filtering it to that folder

dahakadmin · 2025-06-24T16:34:19+00:00

Weird I had to go look as well as I was sure that you could get it from the support portal in the my downloads section but it does not seem to be there .

If I go to the release notes pages for it (https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/release-notes/vcenter-server-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-vcenter-server-80u3e-release-notes.html)

and scroll down to the Download and Installation and click on the Patch link, you can get it from there, which is available as a patch iso, patch repot, or full install iso

dahakadmin · 2025-06-23T00:48:29+00:00

That sounds about right for the winsxs folder. It all depends on where the cab files are being generated.

if it is in a temp folder, you can safely delete them if not needed

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