Clicking All Users' Tasks in the vSphere Web Client results in a warning dialogue

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

When you click All Users' Tasks in the Recent Tasks panel of the vSphere Web Client, a warning box appears:

The All Users' Tasks view for Recent Tasks is currently disabled. To view tasks for all users, click More Tasks.

 

Administrators can enable All Users' Tasks for Recent Tasks in the webclient.properties file for vSphere Web Client. It is only recommended for small to medium sized inventories and a limited number of concurrent users.

 

Note: In vSphere 6.5, All Users' Tasks is the default mode for the Recent Tasks panel. The show.allusers.tasks flag is applicable only to the minimized mode of the Recent Tasks panel.

Environment

• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
• VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5
• VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x

Resolution

To resolve this issue, perform the following tasks:

• Click More Tasks in the Recent Tasks panel to view all users' tasks.
• Edit the show.allusers.tasks setting in the webclient.properties file.

Note: For large vSphere environments, changing the webclient.properties file might impact performance.

1. Locate the webclient.properties file.
   • For the vCenter Server Appliance, the file is located in the /etc/vmware/vsphere-client directory.
   • For vCenter Server on Windows, the file is located in the C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\vsphere-client directory.
2. Edit the file using a text editor and change show.allusers.tasks=false to show.allusers.tasks=true.
3. Connect to the vSphere Web Client and select All Users' Tasks. If this view is not available, perform one of the following to start a new session with the vSphere Web Client.
• Refresh the Web browser.
• Close the Web browser, open a new Web browser and connect to the vSphere Web Client.
• Log out of the vSphere Web Client and then log in again.