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...
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...
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...
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...
Outlook Web App :-( Something Went Wrong
KB ID 0001252 Problem I tried to get access to OWA on my Exchange 2016 server, and was greeted with this; 🙁 Something Went Wrong We’re having trouble getting to your mailbox right now.Please refresh the page or try again later Solution I’ve pointed it out on the image above, but it’s easy to miss, look at the time stamp on the error, and compare it to the correct time. The two are not the same. This is a known...
Exchange – Event ID 205 and Event ID 16025
KB ID 0001251 Problem At a client this week, they were having a LOT of mail flow problems. Looking at the queue viewer, I could see that all their mail was sat in queues waiting to go into their mails stores. There was a queue for each mail store, and the error on each was “451 4.4.0 DNS query failed Exchange Server error in message queue”. Looking in the Application log it was full of Event ID 205, and 16025 Errors...
Install and Configure Certificate Enrolment Policy Web Service
KB ID 0001250 Problem A client had moved a domain joined server into their DMZ, and while they had opened the correct ports for Domain Authentication on their firewall, no one had considered the certificates on the server which had expired, and could not be renewed. Some research, pointed me towards Certificate Enrolment Web Service. Its job is to let clients enrol and renew certificates, from either non domain joined machines, or...
URI Was Validated Successfully But there Was No Friendly Name Returned
KB ID 0001249 Problem When attempting to connect a host to a Certificate Enrolment Policy Server it worked but had the following complaint; WARNING: The URI “https://{Host-Name}ADPolicyPRovice_CEP_{Method}/service.svc/CEP” was validated sucessfully but there was no friendly name returned by the remote machine. Solution On your certificate enrolment policy server, open the Internet Information Servers (IIS) Management...
Certificate Enrolment – URI This ID conflicts with an Existing ID
KB ID 0001248 Problem When attempting to connect a host to a Certificate Enrolment Policy Server I got this error; The URI Entered above had ID : “{Random-GUID}”. This ID conflict with an existing ID Solution On your certificate enrolment policy server, open the Internet Information Servers (IIS) Management console. Expand {Server-Name} > Sites > Default Web Site > ADPolicyProvider_CEP_Kerberos, (yours may not end...
Upgrade Your Microsoft PKI Environment to SHA2 (SHA256)
KB ID 0001244 Problem This is pretty much PART TWO of two posts addressing the need to migrate away from SHA1 before February 2017. Back in PART ONE we looked at how to upgrade the ROOT CA. It does not matter if it’s an offline or online root CA the process is the same. In many organisations their PKI is multi tiered, they either have a RootCA <> SubCA, or a ROOTCA <> IntermediateCA <> IssuingCA. (which is...