Frequent Internet or Wi-Fi disconnections with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems.

Problem Description: You will find that some Dell, HP and Lenovo laptops will face intermittent Internet disconnections. Sometimes Wi-Fi disappears from notification tray, and you will have to restart the…

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.Net Framework 3.5 installation fails with error code 0x8024002E

Problem Description: If you are installing .Net Framework 3.5 (includes .Net 2.0 and 3.0) on Windows 10 or Windows 2016 server, you may encounter this issue. If you download offline…

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jcifs smb smbexception failed to connect 0.0 0.0 00

Problem Description: When you try to access shared folders created on Windows machine using java based program you may encounter an error Failed to connect hostname/IP Address or if you…

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General SSLEngine problem

Problem description: It generally happens when the Java program that you are running is unable to trust the SSL certificate assigned to the application URL. Reason could be- you are…

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Location not available D:\ is not accessible Access denied D drive Windows 10

You get the error “Location not available” Access denied, when you try to access any drive except C: on your Windows 10 machine Even if you take ownership of drive…

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Cannot stage patch to ESXi host

When you try to stage patches or re mediate ESXi host you get this error- cannot stage patch to ESXi host. Also if you stage some selected patches it may…

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Could not connect to one or more vcenter server system 443/sdk VCSA 6.7

When you login to vCenter web client you do not see any inventory under Hosts & clusters. Also after login you will see error message- could not connect to https://vcenter.fqdn.domain:443/sdk…

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Ethernet Authentication Failed

Problem Description: When you see network properties you may find red question mark on Ethernet connection with message “Authentication Failed” This issue occurs because your Windows machine is either trying…

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Windows 10 unable to join domain

Problem Description : Windows 10 unable to join domain Solution: When you invoke a script to join Windows 10 machine to domain, the domain joining process may fail. Assuming you…

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Error kerberos auth failure for principal when you run win_ping from Ansible to Windows

Problem Description: When you run win_ping from Ansible tower against Windows server and use domain credentials you get “Kerberos auth failure for principal” error. There could be multiple reasons behind…

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