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New VMware Workstation 25H2 Download

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VMware has decided to use the Windows versioning numbers and have released 25H2 . It's an interesting move - with Windows this makes sense because you need to know how recent your version of the operating system is, but with a desktop product like VMware workstation is does raise the issue - what happens if they want to release more than two version a year to we get 26Q1, 26Q2?  Full details can be found here. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/10/14/vmware-workstation-fusion-25h2-embracing-calendar-versioning-and-new-features/ The current automatic updates system cannot update to this version. Instead you'll need to login here. https://support.broadcom.com/ Then download from here. https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subfamily=VMware%20Workstation%20Pro&freeDownloads=true VMware Workstation installer Under the hood the version number reports 25.0.0.24995812

SOLVED: AdvancedInstaller doesn't show the the output or notifications window

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When you're using AdvancedInstaller you may find that your build fails silently and no output windows are shown. These should be shown as tabs below the bottom splitter. This issue can occur if the settings of the UI positions are incorrect. To resolve this backup and then rename the following registry key. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Caphyon\Advanced Installer\UI Positions Reopening AdvancedInstaller should show the tabs again.

VMware (Broadcom) vSphere 7 End of Life October 2025

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VMware vSphere 7 has this month come to the end of life. More information can be found on the VMware blog. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/03/31/reminder-vsphere-7-to-reach-end-of-service-october-2-2025/ Both XIA Configuration Server  and XIA Configuration Express continue to detect and document VMware vSphere 7 so we can continue to help you understand your legacy technologies and plan for their migration. For more information see the following page. https://www.centrel-solutions.com/xiaconfiguration/capabilities.aspx?capability=vmware-vcenter-and-vsphere-environment-documentation-tool Screenshot of the VMware vSphere documentation

SOLVED: Setting HTML fallback fonts using HelpNDoc and it's not pretty

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We've recently come across a problem with setting a failback font for the HTML output of HelpNDoc. By default HelpNDocs styles are configured to use Default Font  this is built into the application as Arial  and cannot be changed. HelpNDoc's default style By default HelpNDoc's Normal  style is set to Default Font  as seen above. You can change this font but only to a single font.  Setting the font to something like 'Segoe UI', 'Calibri' will appear to work but fail silently on output. HelpNDoc's style editor If you set the font on the content to - for example Calibri  this will set the font correctly in Word, CHM, etc however for the HTML content the following will occur. The main-content  class will remain as the system default of Arial  with some fallbacks automatically added. The Calibri  font will then be set over and over again on all paragraphs that use the Normal  style. This makes it impossible to override the font on main-conte...