Cisco ASA AnyConnect VPN ‘Using CLI’
KB ID 0000943 Problem Note: This is for Cisco ASA 5500, 5500-x, and Cisco FTD running ASA Code. Also See Cisco ASA AnyConnect VPN ‘Using ASDM’ This procedure was done on Cisco ASA (post) version 8.4, so it uses all the newer NAT commands. I’m also going to use self signed certificates so you will see this error when you attempt to connect. Solution 1. The first job is to go get the AnyConnect client package(s),...
Windows Adding Firewall Rules With PowerShell
KB ID 0001538 Problem There was a question on Experts Exchange this morning, the asker wanted to be able to add a ‘Trusted’ network range to their Windows Server Firewall settings as a ‘allow all ports’ rule. Solution You can of course add this manually in the GUI, normally I’d simply Add a Firewall Rule with a Group Policy. but the problem with that is, that’s fine if you want to open a particular...
AnyConnect ‘Management VPN Tunnel’ Configuration
KB ID 0001503 Problem With the newest version of AnyConnect (4.7) there’s an added feature called ‘Management VPN’. It’s there, so that if you have remote users who don’t VPN in very often, then you may struggle to mange them, e.g. put software updates, AV updates, SCCM packages etc. down to them. Before version 4.7 you could configure ‘Automatically Connect’, or ‘Start before...
Cisco AnyConnect – Running ‘Logon Scripts / OnConnection Scripts’
KB ID 0001353 Problem I’ve seen this asked a lot in forums, and it came up on EE again today. I’ve never had to set this up in the past, but I’ve posted the links to the correct Cisco articles when people have asked. After the question was asked again today, I thought I’d take the time to write a decent article on how to do it. Why would you want to do this? You might want to map/reconnect a mapped drive, or...
Deploying Applications with VMware ThinApp
KB ID 0000612 Problem ThinApp is an “Odd” VMware product, insofar as it’s got nothing to do with virtual machines or virtual technology. It’s a product that turns applications into “Stand alone” thin applications, that can be sent to a user and ran without the need for that user to have administrative access, or the need to install anything. ThinApp was a product called Thinstall that VMware...