Adding New Networks to Cisco AnyConnect VPNs
KB ID 0001593 Problem Note: To add new subnets to a traditional Site to Site VPN, see the following article instead; Cisco ASA – Adding New Networks to Existing VPNs I see this get asked in online forums A LOT. If you have an existing AnyConnect VPN setup, and then need to add another network how do you do it? Well that depends on where the new network is, and how it’s entering the firewall, these diagrams can be either way...
VMware Horizon: ‘VM With Unsupported Guest OS’
KB ID 0001592 Problem Seen when attempting to deploy Window Server 2016, as an ‘Image’ (Parent VM,) with VMware Horizon View. ‘VM With Unsupported Guest OS’ I double checked, and Server 2016 (Standard and DataCenter) were supported, as was Server 2019 (Standard and DataCenter.) The image also had a new version of the VMware Horizon View agent installed in it? Solution In my case this was an embarrassingly easy...
Exchange ContentIndexState ‘Failed’
KB ID 0001591 Problem A client from a recent Exchange migration I had done, emailed me to say that his clients were having trouble searching their mailboxes, I jumped on remotely and saw that the mailbox Database content index status was showing ‘Failed’. ContentIndexState: Failed Solution I’ve had problems before with indexing here, I replicated the fix to remove the index and generate a new one. The process for...
Forcing Azure AD Connect Sync
KB ID 0001590 Problem If you are using Azure AD Connect, (AAD Connect) to sync your on-premise Active Directory with Azure AD (i.e. for Office 365), then there may be times when you need to manually ‘force a replication’ because by default it’s going to take 30 minutes between each normal ‘delta replication’ Solution If you are directly on the server that’s running Azure AD connect, then use the...
PowerShell: Add All Members of an OU to a Security Group
KB ID 0001589 Problem I’ve written in the past about ‘Bulk Adding Users from CSV files, into Groups’. But what if you want to add ALL users in a particular OU into a security group? Solution The syntax is; Get-ADUser -SearchBase ‘OU=Source-OU,OU=PNL,DC=pnl,DC=com’ -Filter * | ForEach-Object {Add-ADGroupMember -Identity ‘SG-Test-Group’ -Members $_ } Here I’ve got 20 users that need adding to a group, in this...