Install SCCM 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Step by Step
KB ID 0000297 Problem I had to work out how to do this for a client, and as is my modus operandi, I’ll try and save you some of the pain I endured, Products Used System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL 2008 R2 (At time of writing neither officially supported or not supported on SCCM) Note: I was originally going to use SQL 2005 – hence the reason the SQL servers name is SCCM-SQL2005, however...
SBS Exchange Certificate Expired
KB ID 0000535 Problem When you setup SBS2008 (and Exchange 2007) it creates and uses a self signed certificate, which is fine. But by default it only lasts two years. The best option is to buy a proper certificate, but if you simply want to generate a new one here’s how to do it. Solution 1. Here you can see your certificate has expired. 2. Normally you need to access your certificate services web enrolment console to carry this...
PowerShell Web Access
KB ID 0001036 Problem One of my goals for this year is to become more proficient with PowerShell. During my studies I came across PowerShell Web access and thought it was so cool, I’d have a play with it. What is PowerShell Web Access? It’s a web service that runs on a Server 2012 IIS web server. It lets you remote connect to that host (via https) and then launch a PowerShell secure connection to any machine in your...
Exchange 2013 – ‘The WinRM Shell client cannot process the request’
KB ID 0000855 Problem After building a new Exchange 2013 Server on my test network and changing the Certificate over, I ran a few updates and rebooted. Post reboot I was greeted with this, VERBOSE: Connecting to PNL-EX2013.petenetlive.net. New-PSSession : [pnl-ex2013.petenetlive.net] Processing data from remote server pnl-ex2013.petenetlive.net failed with the following error message: The WinRM Shell client cannot process the request....
Exchange 2010 – Error in IIS Manager When Editing Authentication
KB ID 0000340 Problem Whist in IIS Manager and attempting to edit the authentication for the Exchange directory you see the following error, Error reads, There was an error while performing this operation. Details Filename: ?C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV14ClientAccessowaweb.config. Line number: 30 Error: Configuration section not allowed to be set below application. Solution 1. Navigate to C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange...