Windows Group Policy – Disable The Local Windows Firewall
KB ID 0001090 Problem I’ve got nothing against the Windows firewall, it’s certainly a lot easier to manage now than it was back in the XP SP2 days. But I find a lot of clients still just ‘want it gone’ and, providing they have a decent corporate firewall in front of them that’s fair enough. Solution 1. On a domain controller or a client running the remote administration tools > Windows Key+R >...
Windows – Forcing Domain Group Policy
KB ID 0001282 Problem I’ve written hundreds of posts about doing things with group policies. Every time I finish one, I write a couple of paragraphs on how long to wait, or how to force the policy etc. So I’ve finally got round to writing a post I can simply reference! How Long Before Group Policy Changes Are Applied? This is something that hasn’t changed since I was doing Windows 2000 exams 🙂 The default interval...
Event ID 6 and 13
KB ID 0000473 Problem Event ID 6 Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-AutoEnrollment Description: Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed (0x800706ba) The RPC server is unavailable. Event ID 13 Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CertEnroll Description: Certificate enrollment for Local system failed to enroll for a DomainController certificate with request ID N/A from {hostname}{name...