Microsoft Office for Mac – Favorites Missing
KB ID 0001264 Problem Whenever Office needs updating on my Mac I just hit OK and let it do its own thing. I did that this morning, and went and got a coffee. It was a while later that I noticed that when I needed to add an attachment to an email I got this; Now that might look fine, but in the left hand pane ‘Favourites’ is missing, it should look like this; If I opened launcher it was fine, it was only from Microsoft...
Deploy Cisco FirePOWER Management Center (Appliance)
KB ID 0001263 Problem You have been able to manage your firewalls Internal SFR module for while using the ASDM Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM) For most people that’s fine, but if you have a lot of FirePOWER devices to manage that does not scale well. In those cases you should use theFMC (FirePOWER Management Center). Here ‘Im going to use the Vmware virtual appliance, (at time of writing there is no Hyper-V version)....
Cisco ASA – Remote IPSEC VPN With the NCP Entry Client
KB ID 0001260 Problem I’ve covered Cisco IPSEC Remote VPNs a long time ago, and I’ve also blogged about the Cisco IPSEC VPN Client Software. Yes you can get the Cisco VPN Client Working on Windows 10, but can you imagine rolling that out to a few hundred users? The bottom line is Remote Cisco IPSEC VPN is a dead technology, Cisco, (and Me!) want you to use AnyConnect. For a couple of users you can use the work arounds...
Cisco SFR Session – Cannot Exit To Command Line
KB ID 0001259 Problem This tripped me up once before, and I didn’t document it! Normally if you have a console session open with your FirePOWER Module, (that you opened with a ‘session sfr’ command), then you can just quit, and exit back to the firewall by typing ‘exit’, like so; ciscoasa# session sfr Opening command session with module sfr. Connected to module sfr. Escape character sequence is...
Cisco IOS – How To Find VLAN IPs (SVI’s)
KB ID 0001258 Problem If you have a complicated network, you can spend more time finding out how it’s configured, than actually doing any work on it! Today I had a client that needed some changes made on their LAN, I knew their name, and their network address, and common sense told me which of the core switches they were connected to. Solution A quick search on the client name told me what VRF they were in, and what VLAN they...
Windows Server – Locating, Transferring, and Seizing FSMO Roles
FSMO Roles KB ID 0001257 Problem I’ve written about transferring and sizing FSMO roles, (Flexible Single Master Operations) before, see the following article; Transferring Your FSMO Roles Now you have a PowerShell Commandlet to help ‘Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole’. FSMO Roles : Solution As before you can view your FSMO role holders, by using the following command. netdom query fsmo To transfer them to...
Cisco AnyConnect – With Google Authenticator 2 Factor Authentication
KB ID 0001256 Problem This was asked as a question on Experts Exchange this week, and it got my interest. A quick search turned up a bunch of posts that said, yes this is possible, and you deploy it with FreeRADIUS and it works great. The problem was, a lot of the information is a little out of date, and some of it is ‘wrong enough’ to make the non-technical types give up. But I persevered, and got it to work. Disclaimer:...
Meraki To Cisco ASA 5500 Site to Site VPN
KB ID 0001255 Problem This was surprisingly easier than I was expecting! Special thanks to Steve for letting me loose on his test network for the Meraki end of the tunnel. Here I’m using an MX 64 Security appliance, and a Cisco ASA 5510. Note: The Meraki device will need a static IP. Solution Configuring Meraki MX Device for VPN to a Cisco ASA From your Meraki dashboard > Security Appliance > Site To Site VPN. If you...
OWA 2016 – Change Login From Domain\Username to Username
KB ID 0001254 Problem Out of the box, if you want to log into Outlook Web App, you need to use the Domain\Username format, like so; Seeing as how Microsoft are making a big song and dance about using UPN’s to log into Office 365, I thought they might have changed from the NT4 way of doing things, but hey what do I know? As we all know users are stupid, Domain\Username is up there with string theory and quantum mechanics. So how...
Barracuda Email Security Gateway Setup and Deployment
KB ID 0001253 Problem This is the process for setting up both physical and virtual Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliances, (formally Barracuda Spam Firewall). Note: This walk though sets out the basic functions to get your appliance working and inspecting email, it’s not an exhaustive list of all the features of the appliance. Solution Before you start, I’m making the assumption if you have a physical appliance,...