Our UCP 4000 environment was working as expected and all the sudden I lost access from my remote terminal to the SCVMM server. I login to the server and everything was working without a problem. So I decided to do a little troubleshooting.

1. Check the workstation VM. – Everything was working as expected.

2. Check firewall – Everything was working as expected no changes.

So what could be the problem…..

Well, as you may know Microsoft releases updates to their products every month. This past month there was an update to the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager console. And this stop all communication to between the client and the server that is managing our UCP 4000.

How did I found out this.

1. Check the version of the SCVMM console on the SCVMM server. Right click C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager\Bin\VmmAdminUI.exe

2. Compare the version of the SCVMM console in the remote PC. They are different.

SCVMM will not allow connection when the console and the server are in different versions.

How do you fix it?

1. Go to Control Panel –>Programs –> Programs and Features –> Installed updates.

2. Look for an update that include System Center or Virtual Machine Manger in the name. All updates must be applied to the server first then the client.

After you remove the update you can connect back to your SCVMM console and manage your UCP environment.

Computers use different ways to represent the information they store. This script helps with converts Hexedecimal numbers (Hex) to Plain Text.

Script Hex2Text.ps1

<#
 .SYNOPSIS
 Convert HEX to Text.
 
 .DESCRIPTION
 This script will help you convert HEXEDECIMAL files to text.
 
 .PARAMETER HEX
 Please, Type the Hexedecimal, ok?
 
 .NOTES
 ===========================================================================
 Created on: 8/2/2015 9:27 PM
 Created by: Carlos Vargas
 Filename: Hex2Text.ps1
 ===========================================================================
 .EXAMPLE

 ===================Example 1==========================
 .Hex2Text.ps1 -Hex "546f64617920697320616e20617765736f6d6520646179"

 Today is an awesome day

 ===================Example 2==========================

 .Hex2Text.ps1 -Hex "54 6f 64 61 79 20 69 73 20 61 6e 20 61 77 65 73 6f 6d 65 20 64 61 79"

 Today is an awesome day

#>
param
(
 [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
 HelpMessage = 'Please, Type the Hexedecimal, ok?')]
 [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
 $HEX
)

Function Hex2Text ($HEX)
{
 $hexnospaces = DetectSpacesinHex($HEX)
 $HEXDATA = $hexnospaces
 $HEXDATA = $HEXDATA -split '(..)' | ? { $_ }
 $HEXDATA.split() | %{ Write-host ([char][int]$("0x{0}" -f $_)) -nonewline }
}

Function DetectSpacesinHex($Hex)
{
 
 $hexnospaces = $Hex.Replace(" ", "")
 $hexnospaces
 
}

Hex2Text($HEX)

YouTube is one of the largest video sharing sites in the world. One of their great features is that a video can have captions or subtitles added to it. If you want to embed a video with subtitles here is the code that you will need.

1. You need the YouTube Link Address to embed. Example: “https://www.youtube.com/embed/i5Q02YX2VTw”

2. Then you need to add the following line to the URL to make your video play the subtitles automatically. “?version=3&hl=pt&&cc_load_policy=1”

3. After you have your complete URL it will look something like this one. Then embed it to your website as usual. “https://www.youtube.com/embed/i5Q02YX2VTw?version=3&hl=pt&&cc_load_policy=1”

Note: Facebook will not play the captions.