Office Find your Version and Licensing Information
KB ID 0000566 Problem Note: This is an OLD post, you might want to look at the following article instead; Finding Out Your Microsoft Office Licence Version I had some licencing issues a couple of weeks ago with Office 2010, and needed to check my version and licence details, thankfully Office 2010 comes with a VB script that makes this easy. Solution Getting your Office Version and Licence Details 1. Launch a command window (Right...
Sync Microsoft Domain Time To A Cisco NTP Device
KB ID 0001038 Problem I’ve been posting domain time articles for a long time, and on more than one occasion I’ve really needed to take my Windows time from a Cisco Device and failed miserably. I’ve even used third party NTP software to solve this problem on my own test network. On a client network, my colleague deployed ACS5 this week, I secured the ASA5585-X for AAA and it failed authentication. Logging revealed a...
Cisco ASA – Configuring for NTP
KB ID 0000608 Problem With NTP, there will be two things you want to do, 1) Allow a device behind the ASA to take its time from a public NTP server, and 2) Set the ASA to take its system time from a public NTP sever (for accurate date stanps on the logs, and for time critical things like Kerberos authentication.) Solution Allow internal host(s) to get system time though the firewall. 1. Connect to the ASA, go to “enable...
iPhone / iPad – Using the Cisco AnyConnect Client
KB ID 0000474 Problem You have an Apple device and you would like to create a remote VPN connection to a Cisco device running AnyConnect. Note: This is not a walkthrough on how to configure AnyConnect, for that go here. Be aware that in addition to your SSL VPN licences your Cisco ASA device also needs a “AnyConnect Mobile – ASA 5510” license. If not you will receive this error. Solution 1. Firstly you need to...
Android – Using the Cisco AnyConnect Client
KB ID 0000539 Problem You have an Android device* and you would like to create a remote VPN connection to a Cisco device running AnyConnect. Note: This is not a walkthrough on how to configure AnyConnect, for that go here. Be aware that in addition to your SSL VPN licences your Cisco ASA device also needs a “AnyConnect Mobile” license. If you do not have one you will receive this error. *Note: At time of writing...