Windows Client(s) not ‘appearing’ in WSUS
KB ID 0000591 Problem Before you start troubleshooting clients, how long have you waited? I usually setup and configure WSUS up at the start of a job, then leave it alone for a few DAYS, before I start worrying. Here are the steps I usually follow to get the machines listed in the WSUS management console. Solution Before doing anything further, simply try running the following two PowerShell commands, (on the problem client,) and...
Cisco – LDAP AAA Error ‘AAA Server has been removed”
KB ID 0001271 Problem Seen while attempting to test AAA authentication via LDAP to a Windows domain Controller. Authentication test to host {IP-Address} failed. Following error occurred – ERROR: Authentication Server not responding: AAA Server has been removed Solution This is a terribly ambiguous error! What it means is that the ASA cannot bind to active directory, either because; The ASA bind account password is wrong. The...
Network Summarisation – Exam Technique and Examples
KB ID 0001138 Problem Note: Yes I’m spelling Summarisation with an ’S’ I’m English. Most examples I’ve seen on this give you a bunch of subnets then ask you to come up with a summary route for all of them, (that’s kind of the point of route summarisation, I’ll grant you). However in an exam with a laminated board and the dodgy permanent pen they give you to make notes with, are you seriously expected to...
Event ID 3085
KB ID 0000129 Problem Error – 1601 occurred while generating an outgoing replication message. Type 0x4″ Solution There’s corruption in your public folder store, I see this during Exchange 2003 to 2007 Migrations, quite often some folders will replicate fine and other will not, and there is no rhyme or reason as to why. Then you see this error in the event log, essentially a couple of corrupt messages/items are...
VMware Workstation – Deploying Server 2012 and Windows 8 ‘Linked Clones’ from Templates
KB ID 0000953 Problem VMware Workstation, is a great test tool, if i need to take a look at some new software, or plan how I’m going to do a job, and I don’t have access to the ESX server, or test bench, it’s a great tool to have on my laptop. If you build machines form scratch, every time you need one it can take a while. To address that you can create a template and deploy machines from that. To make things even...