Windows – Backing up, Transferring, and Restoring Wireless Network Settings
KB ID 0000626 Problem If you have a machine setup and working on your wireless network, sometimes it’s easier to set other machines up by simply migrating the settings. Either because you don’t want your child to try and type in a 64 bit WPA key, or you might simply have forgotten the WEP/WPA key,and don’t want to go through all the hassle of setting it up again. In a small business environment you can give your...
Why Securing Your VPN Solution With Computer Certificates ‘Only’ Is A BAD Idea
KB ID 0001055 Problem After a large AnyConnect 4 roll-out, I had the following conversation with a client; Client: Can we change the way the clients authenticate? Me: Yes, no problem what do you need? Client: Well instead of user based certificate authentication, we want to use computer certificates only. Me: Really why? Client: So when we roll out a lot of imaged new machines we don’t need to get the users to log onto them and...
Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy
KB ID 0000805 Problem I’ve briefly mentioned this before when I wrote about Group Policy Preferences so when I had to do this on-site this week, I jumped straight into the group policy management console, and found that because my ODBC connection was using SQL authentication (with the SQL sa account), this would NOT WORK, (it only works with Windows authentication and even then it needs a tweak). If you are using SQL...
Windows Server – Migrating DHCP Scopes
KB ID 0000447 Problem Normally you can just create a new scope on your new DHCP server, but if you have a lot of reservations that you don’t want to have to recreate (for printers network devices etc), then it’s a better option to migrate/copy the scope to the new server. Solution 1. Copy all the DHCP settings to a text file with the following command; netsh dhcp server export C:\dhcp.txt all 2. Stop and disable the DHCP...
Windows Mail can’t connect to Exchange
KB ID 0000662 Problem Seen when trying to connect the Windows 8 mail client to Exchange 2010 (that is using a self signed certificate). Error Unable to connect. Ensure that the information you’ve entered is correct. Solution This is a right pain! My Exchange 2010 server is using a self signed certificate, and even though the Windows 8 client trusts my domain CA, and it has imported the cert that Exchange is using, it still would...