March 2018 Windows Update removes Virtual Network adapter

March 2018 Windows Update removes Virtual Network adapter

It seems after installing Microsoft KB4088875 on Windows 7/2008R2 you will get a new Virtual Network Adapter A new Ethernet virtual Network Interface Card (vNIC) that has default settings may replace the previously existing vNIC, causing network issues after you apply this update. Any custom settings on the previous vNIC persist in the registry but are unused. To fix this issue, run the VBS script that’s provided below. Copy and paste this in notepad and save with .vbs extension. Before you run the script, make sure that you back up the following registry key and subkeys: HKEY_…

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[BSOD] UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP - tdx.sys stopcode 0x7f daily on VMware fix

[BSOD] UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP - tdx.sys stopcode 0x7f daily on VMware fix

Today I was fortunate again to do a debug, at an environment we had several BSOD/bugcheck errors on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day. This time it was probably caused by: tdx.sys. The stopcode was 0x7f. This time the error occured on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine hosted by a VMware ESXi 5.5 server, with VMware tools ‘complete’ installed. The problem seems a bit similar to this post and the steps towards a solution are also the same, it’s just about to remove the VMCI driver for VMware vShield Endpoint…

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Windows Server guest gets BSOD/Bugcheck on VMware ESXi 5.5 and 5.5u1 [update]

At a networksite we migrated a few weeks ago from VMware ESXi 5.1 to version 5.5, there was a server that crashed daily with a BSOD/bugcheck error. We couldn’t find a cause for this directly, but it seems there is a memory leak caused by VmWare tools VMCI driver VMware vShield Endpoint TDI manager in VMware ESXi 5.5 and this problem is still here with an update to version 5.5 update 1. The problem lies in the VMCI driver, that comes when you install VMware tools with the option ‘complete’ instead…

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