Configure Wireless Network Stings via Group Policy
KB ID 0000923 Problem If you have a corporate wireless network, you can send the settings out to your clients, rather than have them all ask you what the wireless settings are, and how do they connect. Here I’m going to use Domain group policies, but the procedure is the same for local policies (just run gpedit.msc instead). And the dialog boxes are exactly the same as if you were configuring them on the client machine. (You...
Windows Server – Secure RDP Access with Certificates
KB ID 0000944 Problem This ensures that traffic that is sent over an RDP connection to a server is protected by TLS/SSL Encryption. IT DOES NOT stop clients connecting to an RDP server if they do not have a trusted certificate. If you need that level of security, that should already be done by 802.1x. Solution Create an RDP Certificate Template 1. On the domain CA Launch the Certification Authority Management Console > Certificates...
Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES
KB ID 0000970 Problem I’ve covered setting up NDES at length in the past, but what happens when your issued certificates expire? If you are using them for all your VPNs what then? Well thankfully you can get your devices to automatically re-enroll and before they expire, for example to renew the cert at 80% of its lifetime you would use the following; crypto pki trustpoint PNL-TRUSTPOINT enrollment url...
Certificate Services Error – ‘The Email name is unavailable and cannot be added to the Subject or Subject Alternate name’
KB ID 0001029 Problem Server: Windows Server 2012 R2 Client: Windows 8 Enterprise I was setting auto-enrollment this morning, and the computer certificates were getting issued but not the user ones. The policies were correct, the registry keys on the clients were correct, even RSOP told me the users ‘should’ be getting certificates. However nothing was working so I decided to ‘manually enroll’ and this...
Event ID 29
KB ID 0001032 Problem Seen on a Microsoft Certificate Services server running NDES. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkDeviceEnrollmentService Date: 04/02/2015 11:22:26 Event ID: 29 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: PETENETLIVESVC_NDES Computer: PNLPKI00v.petenetlive.com Description: The password in the certificate request cannot be verified. It may have been used already. Obtain a new password to...