Install .Net 2.0 on Server 2019 & 2016
Jan21

Install .Net 2.0 on Server 2019 & 2016

KB ID 0001506 Problem .Net2, man thats old! Well I was setting up PowerCLI for VMware today and was faced with this; .Net Framework 2.0 is not installed on this machine. Please download and install .Net Framework 2.0 before installing VMware PowerCLI. Solution Pop in the Server 2019/2016 DVD, (or present the ISO if it’s a VM.) Then execute the following commands, (Note: It’s installed with .Net 3); dism /online...

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AnyConnect: Stop Prompting for Certificates
Jan18

AnyConnect: Stop Prompting for Certificates

KB ID 0001505 Problem If you secure your AnyConnect with certificates, you may see something like this; When you simply want it to connect without prompting. Solution This tripped me up last week, luckily I’d seen it before, and knew how to fix it. You need to edit the profile for your AnyConnect so that, you ‘UNTICK’ Disable Automatic Certificate Selection. I know that sounds like the opposite of what you want to...

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VMware: Server Certificate Subject Name Does Not Match
Jan14

VMware: Server Certificate Subject Name Does Not Match

KB ID 0001504 Problem If you replace the self signed certificate on your Horizon Connection servers, (so that they have a certificate with your ‘public’ address), you will see this error; Status: Servers’s certificate subject name does not match the server’s External URL. Server’s certificates is not trusted. SSL Certificate: Invalid Solution At first I thought this was simply a DNS problem, and I needed...

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AnyConnect ‘Management VPN Tunnel’ Configuration
Jan13

AnyConnect ‘Management VPN Tunnel’ Configuration

KB ID 0001503 Problem With the newest version of AnyConnect (4.7) there’s an added feature called ‘Management VPN’. It’s there, so that if you have remote users who don’t VPN in very often, then you may struggle to mange them, e.g. put software updates, AV updates, SCCM packages etc. down to them.  Before version 4.7  you could configure ‘Automatically Connect’, or ‘Start before...

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KMS Error 0xC004F056
Jan11

KMS Error 0xC004F056

KB ID 0001502 Problem While checking the KMS licence status of a newly deployed 2016 Datacenter server. I got this; Licence Status: Notification Notification Reason:0xC004F056 Solution While I’m not a fan of any errors, this ones harmless, in fact it’s telling us to perform an activation (slmgr /ato). So let’s do that. Then re-check. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...

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