Fixing the Famous 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to Endpoint) Error When Trying to Connect to vCenter Web Portal

Kent ChenVMware

If you are using VMware’s vCenter to manage your virtualization environment, the chances that you encounter this famous 503 Service Unavailable message are pretty high. 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x00007fd8c00155b0] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) Most of the time, a restart would get you going again. But today, a simple restart won’t cut […]

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The Documentation Tools

Kent ChenStuff in General

Documentation is no fun but a must-to-do in almost every aspect of the work and has to be done constantly and consistently. It’s basically not how you do it, rather, a matter of doing it, in a good structure. Over time, I have been using OneNote as my main note-taking and documentation tool. But lately, I am obsessed with Wiki-based […]

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Sharing Calendar with Private Item Viewing Rights in Office 365

Kent ChenMicrosoft

Normally, sharing a calendar with others doesn’t provide them the privilege to view the private appointments you put in your calendar. But if you do, you will also need to give the others the delegates access. preferably with automatically send a message unchecked so the delegates don’t get all the unnecessary notifications. You can also accomplish the same with PowerShell, […]

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Fix Windows 10 20H2 Upgrade Error 0xc1900223 via WSUS

Kent ChenMicrosoft

After following setting up WSUS for Windows 10 20H2 upgrade, the workstation updates actually failed with an error code 0xc1900223. The error code reveals nothing. Nothing useful in the event viewer either. But the log from WSUS does. (Unable to Find Resource ) ReportingEvent. Client 181: Parameters: Feature update to Windows 10 (consumer editions), version 20H2, en-us x64 More specifically, […]

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