Windows – Lost / Forgotten Password?
KB ID 0000755 Problem There are many reasons why you might want to do this, someone has managed to change a user password and that person is not available, you might simply have forgotten it. Or you might have been given a machine, or bought one from ebay that has come without a password. Also there have been a few times when a user has looked me in the eye and said “I’m typing my password in, but it’s not...
Using a KMS Server
KB ID 0000582 Problem Given the amount of deployments I do, it’s surprising that I don’t use KMS more often. Like most technical types, I find a way that works for me, and that’s the way I do things from then on. However these last few weeks I’ve been putting in a new infrastructure for a local secondary school. Their internet access is through a proxy server, that refuses to let Windows activation work....
Exchange – Failed to mount database(hr=0x80040115, ec=-2147221227)
KB ID 0000664 Problem The Exchange server on my test network stopped working, the mailbox database was not mounted. When I attempted to mount it: ——————————————————– Microsoft Exchange Error...
Cisco ASA – Enable Split Tunnel for Remote Clients
KB ID 0000066 Problem This is a simple job to do from command line, however the world is full of people who would rather spend an hour in the ASDM working out how to do it! So I’ve included both methods. What is split tunneling? This is the process of letting a remote VPN user browse the web, and access local resources etc, from their location whilst connected to your VPN in this case via SSLVPN, but also from WebVPN or IPSEC...
Deploy Cisco ASA 55xx in Active / Standby Failover
KB ID 0000048 Problem You want to deploy 2 Cisco ASA 55xx Series firewalls in an Active/Standby failover configuration. Solution Assumptions. Hardware on both ASA firewalls is identical. The correct license’s for failover are installed on both firewalls. The same software versions are installed on both firewalls. You have your PRIMARY firewall set up and running correctly (Everything works!). In this example the firewalls were...