Windows Certificate Services – Setup a CRL
May17

Windows Certificate Services – Setup a CRL

Setup a CRL KB ID 0000957 Problem One of the often-overlooked tasks in a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment is configuring your Certificate Services Certificate Revocation List (CRL). For smaller deployments with only one server, you don’t need to worry about complex design considerations (though a CRL doesn’t have to be hosted on a Certificate Services server). In my test environment, I have only one PKI server,...

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Cannot Join Domain?
Jan02

Cannot Join Domain?

Cannot Join Domain KB ID 0000534  Problem The primary cause (99.99% of the time) a client cannot connect to, or join a domain is DNS related. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted Solution : Cannot Join Domain 1. To Troubleshoot you need to know the IP address of your DNS server, In many cases it’s on the first domain controller but that’s not always the case so find out (go to a WORKING...

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Exchange 2019 Migration from  Exchange 2016
Feb02

Exchange 2019 Migration from Exchange 2016

KB ID 0001472 Exchange 2019 Migration If Exchange 2016 was Exchange 2013 in a pretty dress, then with Exchange 2019 it’s simply added a hat. In the past, every third Exchange release was a major rebuild, but Exchange 2016 is simply Exchange version 15.1 (Exchange 2013 was 15.0 and Exchange 2016 is version 15.1). So the Exchange 2019 Migration is pretty much the same as it was from 2013 > 2016, or even 2016 > 2016.   There...

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Duo: Migrate from LDAP to LDAPS
Feb02

Duo: Migrate from LDAP to LDAPS

KB ID 0001647 Problem With the impending ‘turning off’ of cleartext LDAP queries to Windows Server, I wanted to make sure my new Duo deployments were already using LDAPS. I got LDAP deployed very quickly and easily, but making the ‘swap’ to LDAPS proved to be massively problematic. Normally I find Duo a pleasure to deploy, but their technical documentation just confused me for this and I went running up some...

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How Do I Find/Change My IP Address?
Jan17

How Do I Find/Change My IP Address?

KB ID 0000208 What’s an IP address? An IP address is the address used on a network to find your PC, Server, Laptop, or Printer etc. It’s the networking equivalent of your house number and post code (or Zip Code for visitors from over the pond). Do you want your PUBLIC or PRIVATE IP address? As we started to run out of addresses, there were a number of solutions that we came up with, one you will see below (DHCP) the other...

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