Cisco ASA5500 – L2TP over IPSEC VPN
KB ID 0000571 Problem When Cisco released version 7 of the operating system for PIX/ASA they dropped support for the firewall acting as a PPTP VPN device. Note: If you want to use PPTP you can still terminate PPTP VPNs on a Windows server, if you enable PPTP and GRE Passthrough on the ASA. But if you want to use the native Windows VPN client you can still use L2TP over IPSEC. I had a look around the net to work out how to do this and...
VMware – Cannot Cut, Copy, or Paste to and from VM’s
KB ID 0000515 Problem Ever since ESX 4.1 this feature has been disabled, VMware say in their own documentation: Source (Page 215 – ESX Configuration Guide ESX 4.1 vCenter Server 4.1). To turn this feature back ON you have a few choices. Please be aware: We are talking about copy and pasting TEXT to and from a guest VM NOT files and folders. Solution Option 1 (Enable Copy and Paste on an individual Guest machine) Using Web...
VMware ESXi Syslog Errors – ‘System logs on host {host-name} are stored on non-persistent storage.’
KB ID 0000456 Dtd 01/09/17 Problem Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 6.0 and 6.5 System logs on host {host-name} are stored on non-persistent storage. Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 5.1 Error Configuration Issues System logs on host {host-name} are stored on non-persistent storage. Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 5 Error Configuration Issues System logging is not configured on host {host-name}. Syslog Error Seen on ESXi 4 Error Configuration Issues...
Windows Server – Fails Installing .Net 3.5
KB ID 0000924Â Problem I needed to add .Net 3.5 to a Windows Server for an application install, but when I added it as a ‘feature’ it failed. Server 2016 The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed. The source files could not be found. Use the “Source” option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source...
Updating the AnyConnect client for Deployment from the Cisco ASA 5500
KB ID 0000704 Dtd 15/06/17 Problem Your ASA will (by default) update your AnyConnect clients to the latest client software when they connect. However you need to supply the ASA with the updated packages first. Solution 1. Download the latest AnyConnect client package, from Cisco. The one you want will have a file extension of .pkg AnyConnect 4 AnyConnect 3 2. Connect to the ASDM > Configuration > Remote Access VPN > Network...