Monthly Archives: June 2020

Unable to remove Floppy Drive from ESXi Virtual Machine

Problem: Removing the floppy drive and saving the VM configuration, the floppy drive would automatically appear again. Solution: Shutdown the VM and unregister it. Manually edit the vmx file, find one or more lines similar to the below and delete … Continue reading

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Microsoft Project License Error Loop

We had Project Professional (specifically 2016 version 1908) running on Windows Server 2012 R2.  Initially Project was installed with SharedComputerLicensing enabled. Later we reinstalled it via Office Deployment Tool and shared computer activation disabled in order to utilize volume licensing … Continue reading

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Ubuntu 20.04 on ESXi Generating multipathd Errors

Brand new install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) running as a virtual machine on ESXi was generating a lot of errors in syslog like the below multipathd[711]: sda: failed to get udev uid: Invalid argument multipathd[711]: sda: failed to … Continue reading

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