Having trouble installing Vcenter? If you look in %temp% the log file will give a clue, but it’s not obviosu to look there. Anyway, you need to install dot net 3.5 from the Add Features. You may get an error if you can’t get on to the internet, in that case, stick your CD in and run
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs/LimitAccess
Or change /source to point to some network location that has an extract of the cd. Should work then!
I’ve been getting a lot of weird errors on my Windows 8 install. Amlost as if the drive is corrupt and lots of DLLs are broken. Random things such as not being able to ope the firewal properties. Not being able to change network connections. The services windows shows “failed to read description. error code 2”. I can’t uninstall anything either! Sounds like a virus. However after a bit of googling it seems to point to AMD / ATI’s “Driver cleanup utlity”. It looks like this does not work on windows 8. Hopefully you ahve a recent restore point and revert, I didn’t and am having to do a repair in stall by running setup fro the CD and “upgrading” my win 8 to win 8.
Some links are here
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=373855
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=373750
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m18x/710632-amd-uninstall-utility-messed-up-windows-8-a.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2686098
Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters” RequireSecureNegotiate -Value 0 -Force
Not sure why this works, or what combination of signing on not signing makes it work…