Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manger - "unknown" error

Question

_{Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:44 PM}

Having a strange error where the Server Manger shows "unknown" for all the local server properties, all other functions appear to work fine...  any ideas how to fix this?

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_{Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:49 PM ✅Answered}

Well, I fixed the problem. I noticed that while it seemed everything said "unknown", you will notice, that the networking part where the IPs are is blank...and I have been having issues with VMware's NIC on this server as this is a virtual server.  The VMware administrator uninstalled the VMware tools from this server and now the Server Manager is working correctly...

_{Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:49 PM}

Well...that is what it looks like while server manager always looks like while populates the information which takes a minute. How long have you let it sit there? What are the available resources on the server like?

_{Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:36 PM}

It's been like that for a couple days, tried rebooting, logging in with a different user account, etc.  Plenty of resources available.  If I click on "unknown" it even brings up the appropriate property settings...

_{Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:09 PM}

That's pretty odd...have you checked the Windows Event Logs? That's going to be your next step...System/Application logs and then if you expand applications there are also a series of ServerManager specific logs...I'd start at the System logs first though.