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,...
Securing Exchange OWA with RSA SecureID
KB ID 000096 Problem Later on in the year I’ve got a big RSA and SharePoint deployment, as I know ‘Zippity Squat’ about SharePoint, I thought the best way to get some hands on experience, was to work out how to integrate SecureID with Exchange 2013, (which I know a few things about!) Solution I’m assuming you already have RSA Authentication Manager setup and users/tokens deployed. This run though is simply to...
Server 2012 – Certificate Services – ‘HTTP Error 403.14 – Forbidden’
KB ID 0001067 Problem I spun up a new Certificate Services server on my test network today, because I needed to issue some certificates for something I’m working on. It was a pretty vanilla build, just the Certificate Services role, and the Web Enrollment feature. Solution I spent a while searching this one down, as you can see (above) it was showing me the root cause of the problem. The page you normally see when you log into...
Exchange – Change OWA Login to Username Only
KB ID 0000861 Problem The procedure for changing the user login process from domainnameusername to just username, is a little different with Exchange 2013. Solution 1. Connect to the Exchange admin center > Servers > Virtual Directories > Select OWA > Edit. 2. Authentication > Select ‘User name only’ > Browse and select the domain > Save. 3. At the warning click OK > Windows Key+R > cmd {enter}...
Cannot Access Exchange Management Console
KB ID 0000477 Dtd 02/05/13 Problem Since Exchange 2007, its management tasks have been done via PowerShell, (yes even the GUI Management). Which is fine, however it runs all that PowerShell from a virtual directory that lives in the servers’ IIS webserver. When that fails or there is a problem, Exchange runs quite happily, but you can’t run the management tools. There are a number of reasons for this to fail and a number...