Error – Remove DirectAccess configuration settings from localhost before removing the Remote Access role.
KB ID 0000844 Problem When attempting to remove the Direct Access role from a Windows 2012 Server, you see the following; The validation process found problems on the server from which you want to remove features. The selected features cannot be removed from the selected server. Click OK to select different features. DirectAccess is configured on {host-name}. Remove DirectAccess configuration settings form {host-name} before removing...
Certificate Services Error – ‘The Email name is unavailable and cannot be added to the Subject or Subject Alternate name’
KB ID 0001029 Problem Server: Windows Server 2012 R2 Client: Windows 8 Enterprise I was setting auto-enrollment this morning, and the computer certificates were getting issued but not the user ones. The policies were correct, the registry keys on the clients were correct, even RSOP told me the users ‘should’ be getting certificates. However nothing was working so I decided to ‘manually enroll’ and this...
Event ID 29
KB ID 0001032 Problem Seen on a Microsoft Certificate Services server running NDES. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkDeviceEnrollmentService Date: 04/02/2015 11:22:26 Event ID: 29 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: PETENETLIVESVC_NDES Computer: PNLPKI00v.petenetlive.com Description: The password in the certificate request cannot be verified. It may have been used already. Obtain a new password to...
Server 2012 – Certificate Services – ‘HTTP Error 403.14 – Forbidden’
KB ID 0001067 Problem I spun up a new Certificate Services server on my test network today, because I needed to issue some certificates for something I’m working on. It was a pretty vanilla build, just the Certificate Services role, and the Web Enrollment feature. Solution I spent a while searching this one down, as you can see (above) it was showing me the root cause of the problem. The page you normally see when you log into...
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,...