Dell Inspiron 1525 – Bluetooth Problem
KB ID 0000402 Problem I promised to take a quick look at one of my mum’s friends laptops the other evening, the brief was; they had a problem opening office attachments, and their wireless mouse was’nt working. I assumed they needed the document conversion pack and probably had a flat battery, so I downloaded the update, and slung some batteries in my laptop bag. The attachment problem was sorted (by re-installing office...
NDES – Fails to Issue Certificates (Signature Algorithm)
KB ID 0001021 Problem I was trying to enroll some ASA firewalls to NDES to get some certificates. Each time the process failed with the following error. % Error in receiving Certificate Authority certificate: status = FAIL, cert length = 0 That’s a pretty generic error, and does not give me a lot to go on. So I thought I would try from another network device, (a Cisco Catalyst switch). It’s a little easier to...
WDS Deploying Windows Part 2: Prepare Windows, and Capture to WDS
KB ID 0000737 Problem In part one we built and configured the WDS Server. Now you need to prepare the reference Windows 8 machine so that you can ‘capture’ its image. Solution Before you start, make sure that the machine you are imaging has PLENTY of room on one of its local drive(s), because it copies the image locally, before it sends it to WDS. Place Your Reference Windows 8 Machine in Audit Mode To put all the software...
Windows Key Has Stopped Working (Logitech G15)
KB ID 0000749 Problem I jumped on my main PC at home to do something the other day, being Windows 8 I tend to use the Windows key a LOT (Windows Key+R and +E, and +X for example). Windows 8 Shortcut Keys But the windows key did nothing? I tried CTRL+Esc, and that worked? I was starting to think that I had a faulty keyboard. Solution Turns out there’s nothing wrong with my keyboard at all, as its primarily designed for the gaming...
HP Networking ‘ProCurve’ – Trunking / Aggregating Ports
KB ID 0000638 Problem I was lending a hand this week, while my colleague swapped out a lot of switches. I don’t usually deploy a large number of HP switches, so I was surprised when we installed a chassis switch and after patching the fiber links, the Cisco Catalyst switches all got upset and we lost three out of four ping packets. I (wrongly) assumed that STP would be enabled, so I wandered back and pulled the second fiber...