AnyConnect Error – ‘Failed To Get Configuration From Secure Gateway’
KB ID 0001354 Problem Saw this while attempting to connect to my ASA this week. AnyConnect Secure Mobility Downloader Failed to get configuration from secure gateway. Contact your system administrator Solution Well luckily I’d just made a change so I could focus on the right area straight away. I’d been messing around with the profile xml file associated with my AnyConnect GroupPolicy. If you take a look at my profile...
Cisco AnyConnect – Running ‘Logon Scripts / OnConnection Scripts’
KB ID 0001353 Problem I’ve seen this asked a lot in forums, and it came up on EE again today. I’ve never had to set this up in the past, but I’ve posted the links to the correct Cisco articles when people have asked. After the question was asked again today, I thought I’d take the time to write a decent article on how to do it. Why would you want to do this? You might want to map/reconnect a mapped drive, or...
Microsoft IIS – Stop Getting Indexed By Search Engines
KB ID 0001352 Problem If you have a publicly facing website, and you DON’T want it indexed by the major search engines, then this is the post for you. Why would you want this? Well you might have a development server that you don’t want appearing in peoples search results, or you might be hosting files and folders you want publicly available, but again you don’t want those files and folders showing in peoples...
Exchange 2010 – EMC Error ‘GetSteppablePipeline execution of scripts is disabled’
KB ID 0001351 Problem Seen when attempting to open the Exchange Management Console; Exception calling “GetSteppablePipeline: with “1” argument(s): File C:\ProgramFiles\Exchange Server\v14\RemoteScripts\ConsoleInitialize.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details.” Solution This is usually caused by an...
Microsoft Exchange – Forwarding Mail To External Email Addresses
KB ID 0001350 Problem Note: Below I’m using Exchange 2016, but the same approach will work for previous versions. There are a load of reasons why you might want to do this, but before you go off in this direction consider why you are doing this in the first place. For example, if the user requesting this does not need an Exchange mailbox, i.e. because they only use their Gmail account then it’s probably a better idea to...
Exchange Bulk Export / Import Mail Contacts
KB ID 0001349 Problem I had to do this today and realised, it’s been so long since I did it last, I’d forgotten how to do it. Before we go forward, please be clear, I’m talking about MAIL CONTACTS, these are Active Directory Objects that have an Email address, but DO NOT have a mailbox in your Exchange Organisation, and DO NOT have an Active Directory User. I point this out because you can have MAIL USERS that have...
Updating FirePOWER Module (From ASDM)
KB ID 0001348 Problem Normally I don’t like upgrading the SFR this way. But then I tend to install new firewalls set them up and walk away, so its easier (and a LOT quicker) to simply image the module to the latest version and then set it up. Like So; Re-Image and Update the Cisco FirePOWER Services Module This week I had an existing customer, who has an ASA5508-X but wasn’t using his FirePOWER, I’d installed the...
Cisco Error ‘%PHY-4-SFP_NOT_SUPPORTED’
KB ID 0001347 Problem This is another question I see getting asked a lot in forums! You see something like the following; 000032: *Sep 28 09:35:32.507 UTC: %PHY-4-SFP_NOT_SUPPORTED: The SFP in Gi3/0/50 is not supported (PNL-3750-Stack) 000033: *Sep 28 09:35:32.507 UTC: %PM-4-ERR_DISABLE: gbic-invalid error detected on Gi3/0/50, putting Gi3/0/50 in err-disable state (PNL-3750-Stack) The usual response is ‘Enable unsupported...
VMware vSphere and ESXi – Create a ‘Logon Banner’
KB ID 0001346 Problem Before you create your logon banner it’s important to understand; Where you want it to appear. What the underlying file is actually called (on ESXi). For access to the vSphere Web client (including the Flash client), the setting you want is ”Login Banner’ (Note: vCenter 6.0.Update2 or higher is required); Using this you CAN FORCE, (but you don’t have to) a user to tick “I...
FirePOWER – ‘DataPlaneInterface0’ is not receiving and packets
KB ID 0001344 Problem While replacing a FirePOWER Management console, I got this error; Interface Status Interface ‘DataPlaneInterface0’ is not receiving any packets Solution A look a the health monitor showed me the same thing; Firstly, common sense dictates, that this is a live firewall and traffic is actually flowing though it? In my case the traffic simply needed to be ‘sent though’ the module. Execute...