Cisco FirePOWER (On-Box / ASDM) Change the Time Zone
KB ID 0001363 Problem At first this was just a bug, now it’s annoying, I don’t know why Cisco have not got round to fixing this, it’s still a problem in the latest (6.2.2 at time of writing,) version. Solution Configuration > ASA FirePOWER Configuration > Local > System Policy > Time > Synchronisation > Manually > Save Policy and Exit. Deploy > Deploy FirePOWER Changes > Deploy. To View...
WordPress: Inserting ‘Anchor’ Links (Internal Hyperlinks)
KB ID 0001362 Problem Back when I did the website in Dreamweaver, this was a simple task, there was an ‘insert anchor’ button*. If you have a long webpages and you want your readers to be able to ‘navigate’ around it using hyperlinks, then ‘anchors’ are for you. *In WordPress there is still a GUI option, on the insert menu, so you can still ‘insert anchor’ (see below). What’s an...
Exchange: Apply Email Address Policy to All Distribution Groups
KB ID 0001361 Problem While doing a migration I needed to update all of a clients ‘Distribution’ groups with an additional mail domain. This is not normally a problem we can do that with an Email address policy, well yes you can if all the groups have ‘update email addresses based on policy’ ticked, (which is the default!) However this client had done everything manually. So that wasn’t an option....
Cisco ASA: Prioritise RDP Traffic
KB ID 0001359 Problem I have a client who had two sites, one didn’t have a particularly good internet connection, (which is the actual problem that needed to be solved). But in the interim, he wanted me to prioritise RDP traffic, as his staff were constantly complaining about the speed of their connections. Note: They may be a myriad of reasons why user experience is bad for an RDP session, this was quite simply a bandwidth...
MRS Proxy Error ‘The connection to the server could not be completed’
KB ID 0001358 Problem When attempting a cross forest mailbox migration, When specifying the ‘Remote MRS Proxy Server address’ you get the following error; error the connection to the server ‘server-fqdn’ could not be completed Solution Note: For Office 365 Environments see below. This tripped me up for quite a while, (it kept saying access denied). I’d tested this previously and everything was working....