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When trying to download Google Chrome on Windows Server 2016 today I got the following message Microsoft Edge is the faster, safer browser on Windows 10 and it is already installed on your PC. Which I'm not sure how Microsoft is allowed to guzzump my search by demanding I use their product especially as they've mis-recognised their own operating system. To be clear you cannot use Microsoft Edge on Windows Server 2016. If you need to know the reason see the requirements for Edge. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/hardware-and-software-requirements The Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) versions of Windows, including Windows Server 2016 , don't include Microsoft Edge or many other Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. These apps and their services are frequently updated with new functionality, and can't be supported on systems running the LTSB operating systems. For customers who require the LTSB for specialized devices, we reco...

When using the VMware vCenter Appliance if you find that it reports the following error 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x00005583dec71890] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) This can be due to trying to access the web interface before the services have started, even though the application virtual machine has started and the login screen displayed. It's a real shame that VMware doesn't show a proper startup window on the console of the vCenter server so you can see the services starting rather than having to guess what is going on.

When you setup VMware vCenter server application (which runs on a virtual machine) on VMware workstation deployed from the OVF file you may be presented firstly with the login prompt And shortly afterwards the "final" login screen which prompts you to login to http://photon-machine. The problem is when you deploy using the OVF file the system is still processing the configuration information, you cannot however see any progress.