Enable PPTP Split Tunneling
PPTP Split Tunneling KB ID 0000997 Problem I was asked yesterday, “When you get five minutes, I need you to enable PPTP split tunneling, because when I VPN into a network I lose Internet connectivity”. On inspection he was using the Microsoft VPN client, I jumped on the VPN device to discover it was a Cisco IOS router. What I discovered was, unlike the firewall VPN’s I’m used to, you DONT set split...
Office 365: Enable User Password Reset
KB ID 0001551 Problem If you want to give your Office 365 users the ability to change and recover their passwords this is the procedure. Solution Open the ‘Azure Active Directory’ admin console. If you didn’t already know, Azure is what’s underpinning your Office 365 subscription, Select ‘Azure Active Directory’ > Password reset. I’m enabling for everyone, you can choose...
VMware vSphere Hot Add and Hot Plug
KB ID 0000527 Problem I was trying to hot add some memory to a VM the other day, and found the option grayed out. Normally I’d just down the VM, add the memory, then bring it back up. But it was a production server and I was pretty sure the OS supported it. A quick Google search told me why it was grayed out, but it also transpired there was little to no information on what version of Windows hot add and hot plug would work...
Event ID 1202
KB ID 0000124 Problem Security policies were propagated with warning. 0x4b8 : An extended error has occurred. Solution In my case, driver signing policies. Enable Logging 1. Enable debug logging for the Security Configuration client-side extension. To do this: a. Start Registry Editor. b. Locate and then click the following registry subway: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows...
VMware Workstation – Error – ” Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled”
KB ID 0000540 Problem Seen on VMware Workstation, when attempting to virtualise a product that IS a virtualisation hypervisor (ESX for example). Error: Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled for this ESX VM. You will only be able to run 32-bit nested VMs. At first I (wrongly) assumed that I needed to enable something in the BIOS on my laptop, and searched though every page to enable some virtualization setting that was turned off....