Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES
KB ID 0000970 Problem I’ve covered setting up NDES at length in the past, but what happens when your issued certificates expire? If you are using them for all your VPNs what then? Well thankfully you can get your devices to automatically re-enroll and before they expire, for example to renew the cert at 80% of its lifetime you would use the following; crypto pki trustpoint PNL-TRUSTPOINT enrollment url...
Windows Server – Stop Server Manager from Launching
KB ID 0000042 Dtd 04/08/15 Problem Server Manager on Windows Server 2008 and Server 2012, launches every time you log on, (with administrative access). After a while this can get very annoying, if you log into a lot of servers for example. So I tend to stop it auto-launching (it’s still on the taskbar if you need it!) Solution Disable Server Manager Opening on Startup 1. With Server Manager Open > Manage > Server Manager...
Server 2008 – TS (Remote Desktop Services) Licensing
KB ID 0000523 Dtd 23/03/12 Problem A couple of months back I put in a 2008 Terminal Services Server, or Remote Desktop Services as it’s now called. I installed the Licensing server and successfully added in the licences the client had purchased, but a while later he rang to say he was having licensing issues. At first I thought it might have “dropped” it’s licences so I checked Remote Desktop Licensing Manager,...
Windows Server Update Services – Install and Configure
KB ID 0000592 Problem Windows Server Update Service or WSUS, (previously called SUS Software Update Services) was an additional download that you could use to let one or more servers in your organisation handle the updates for your Windows clients and Microsoft applications. With Server 2008 R2, it is now included as a server ‘role’ rather than a download. It’s a great tool for centrally managing and reporting on...
SBS – Stop the ‘SBS Console’
KB ID 0000212 Problem Every time you log into an SBS Server the “Windows SBS Console” loads, a lot of users will be quite happy with this, but it annoys me. You can’t turn it off by simply ticking “Don’t Run” somewhere, like you can with “Server Manager” on the full server product, nor can you disable it with msconfig, or in the Registry. Solution 1. On the SBS Server Click Start >...