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...
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...
Cisco ASA: DHCP Relay Over VPN
KB ID 0001501 Problem A few weeks ago this was asked on one of the forums I post in. For a long time the ASA didn’t support DHCP relay then finally in version 9 it was added. The question was, can I provide DHCP relay but have the DHCP server on another site (connected via VPN). Well I wasn’t sure, so I put it on the mental back burner, until I got my EVE-NG server rebuilt. Below I knocked up a simple two site setup, then...
vCenter: IE Content was Blocked “Not Signed by a Valid Certificate”
KB ID 0001500 Problem While attempting to manage vSphere Center with Internet Explorer. Access is blocked as it was not signed by valid security certificate. Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate For more information see “About Certificate Errors” in Internet Explorer Help. Solution The client simply does not trust the certificate VMware is presenting, (it’s a self signed...
VMware: ISO Upload or Deploy OVA Fails ‘Undetermined Reason’
KB ID 0001499 Problem I see this a lot! Usually I assume I just need to change browser, here the error is in Chrome. You can see this if you attempt to upload an ISO file to a datastore, or attempt to deploy an OVF file. Error The operation failed for an undetermined reason. Typically this problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust. If you are using self-signed or custom certificates, open the URL below in a...
VMware Composer Install Fails
KB ID 0001498 Problem While attempting to deploy VMware Composer, (in my case version 7) on a windows Server, (in my case 2016 Datacenter). This happened; Installation Failed The wizard was interrupted before VMware Horizon7 Composer could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time please run setup again. Click Finish to exit the wizard. Annoyingly I know what it was straight...
HPE Synergy ‘Unable to Apply Local Storage Settings’
KB ID 0001497 Problem While deploying some Blade severs, I was unable to get the ‘Local’ storage on the blades themselves to configure, (when setting up the server profiles). They were throwing this error; Unable to apply local storage settings on server (Enclosure-name}, bay {number} because HPE OneView cannot communicate with the integrated Smart Array controller : Locked. Resolution Ensure that there is an integrated...
Cisco ASA – DNS Doctoring
KB ID 0001113 Problem Cisco DNS doctoring is a process that intercepts a DNS response packet as it comes back into the network, and changes the IP address in the response. Why Would you want to do this? Well lets say you have a web server on your network, and its public IP is 111.111.111.111, and on your LAN its internal IP address is 192.168.1.100, its public DNS name, (or URL) is www.yoursite.com. When a user types www.yoursite.com...
Recovering Windows Activation Keys
KB ID 0001115 “Have you got one of those programs that gets the Windows key?”, My colleague asked me the other week. I said “Just download a key finder application?”, “Yeah I’ve tried that and is showing the code as all B’s”. You may also just see ‘Product key was not found’ on some software. I sent him some more links and got back to what I was doing. He was having no joy...
Cisco ASA: Remove FTD and Return to ASA and ASDM
Remove FTD KB ID 0001496 Problem A few weeks ago I posted an article about re-image your Cisco ASA to FTD (FirePOWER Threat Defence). Now you may find the the FTD is not as ‘Feature rich’ as your old firewall, or that there’s a ‘Lack of feature parity’, which are two polite ways of saying that it’s crap, (sorry it’s just awful, as usual Cisco should’ve spent a LOT longer developing this...