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...
Windows Certificate Services – Setting up a CRL
KB ID 0000957 Problem One of the often overlooked tasks of a PKI deployment is setting your Certificate Services CRL. For smaller deployments, with only one server then you don’t have to worry about how this will be designed (though a CRL does not have to be hosted on a Certificate Services server). In my test environment I only have one PKI server so everything will be going on that one box, In more complex environments you may...
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...