FirePOWER Agent – Real-Time Status ‘Unavailable’
KB ID 0001323 D Problem I was deploying a Cisco FirePOWER user agent last week, but once setup, the agent reported that the Real-Time status for SOME of the domain controllers was permanently ‘Unavailable’. Now I know you have to be patient with these things so I went and had a coffee. Still it refused to ‘go green’. Solution I addition to all the other rights and firewall rules that you normally have to check....
ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) Domain Migration – Part 1
KB ID 0001305 Problem I’ve not used ADMT for ages, I’ve got a domain migration to do soon, so I thought I’d get on the bench and have a reminder. Although ADMT 3.2 was ‘re-jigged’ to support Server 2012 R2, I’m still going to install it on Server 2008 R2. I’ve got a test domain built to migrate from, and a new domain setup ready to migrate into. Old/Source Domain: olddomain.com Old/Source...
Is Virtual Center 4.1 Supported on Windows Server 2008 R2?
KB ID 0000379 Problem ES! it is, if in doubt see the compatibility matrix. But you have tried to install it and seen an error? Error: This product can only be installed on the following 64-bit operating systems: Windows XP SP2 or above Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Solution Essentially this just a bad error message that bears no resemblance the the actual problem! The REAL REASON you are seeing this error is because you re...
Ubuntu – Joining / Logging into Windows Domains
KB ID 0000384 Problem You have a Linux client machine, and you want to authenticate to, and log into a Windows domain. I don’t have too much history with Linux, but from what I’ve read this used to be a nightmare. Using Ubuntu (10.10) I did have a couple of hiccups, but I did get there in the end. Note: The domain controller is a Windows 2008 R2 Server. Solution Notes 1. The commands needed to install the...
Finding Out the Last Time Domain Users have Logged in
KB ID 0000682 Problem Active directory keeps a log of the last time a domain user has authenticated to the domain (from server 2000 onwards) , the drawback with 2000 is that this value didn’t replicate so you had to query each domain controller and cobble the results together. After 2003 this value was replicated (after convergence,) to all domain controllers. Solution Update Here’s a much better way of showing who logged...