I have been getting An error occurred installing the package. Windows Installer returned ‘1601’ while installing/updating VMware tools on 1 VM (out of like 70..) for some strange reason. Fast forward some time and its all apparent now:
Someone changed the startup type for Windows Installer service to Disabled…
Its one of those annoying things you could really could do without on a Friday evening!!
Anyways, that’s that sorted – time to pack up and leave for the day.
Very unwelcoming error message just popped during user login process when I was messing around with mapping printer connections:
This will obviously not cause too much of a problem with a single computer but when you have 500 of them throwing this error you know you’re in trouble! Not how do you remove/hide this message? In my case Group Policy was the answer and the particular setting is called Point and Print Restrictions and it exists under User and Computer Configurations:
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Printers
User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Printers
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Here is rather not interestingly looking error message popping up when you don’t have Syslog configured properly on ESXi 5.x. I have seen few variations of this error but only have one screenshot at hand!
In a nutshell the cryptic message says that you have logs configured on non-persistent storage and they’ll not survive a reboot of the host. If we look closely at the exact location they’re indeed configured to point at ESXi scratch partition i.e. [] /scratch/log:
There are at least three ways to get us out of trouble in this situation:
Interesting error message indeed! Some screenshots as soon as you hit ‘OK’ on time zone screen and after logging in to OWA:
So here I am, sitting at 10PM converting templates (.vmtx) to VMs (.vmx) – nothing simpler to do right? Wrong! It fails on “This Host or Cluster is not Valid Selection” as soon as you click next on cluster selection… Great, just great. Exactly what I wanted before heading off to bed.. Here is the error:
And the solution (as usual, very simple) is to manually remove any entries to .iso files referenced in .vmtx file. I had one to volume where the .iso used to sit that was no longer connected as storage to my ESXi host:
Now you can happily click your favorite ‘Next’ button just to see it completing without problems.
Life is awesome!