Cisco WLC: EAP-TLS Secured Wireless with Certificate Services
KB ID 0001420 Problem Ah certificates! If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard “I don’t like certificates”, I could retire! The following run through is broken down into the following parts; Setup the Cisco WLC (WLAN) Setup NAP (RADIUS). Setup Certificate Auto Enrolment. Setup Group Policy to Deliver the Wireless Settings. Note: If you are scared of certificates, sometimes it’s easier to setup password...
Windows – Set Desktop Wallpaper From Central Server Share
KB ID 0001280 Problem You have a corporate wallpaper, and you want to set it as the desktop wallpaper on all your machines. Solution Firstly make sure you have some wallpaper! Create a hidden, (with a $ on the end) share on your server, set the share permissions to Everyone = Read. On the security tab make sure ‘Domain Users’ have read, and I would add in administrators with full control to be on the safe side. Now create...
Event ID 36888
KB ID 0000634 Problem This was driving me nuts on my Windows 7 x64 Laptop. Log Name: System Source: Schannel Event ID: 36888 Task Category: None Level: Error User: SYSTEM Description: The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 10. I was getting a dozen of these an hour! Solution This error is caused (from what I can gather) by an error in certificate negotiation, your machine is trying to initiate...
Event ID 6 and 13
KB ID 0000473 Problem Event ID 6 Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-AutoEnrollment Description: Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed (0x800706ba) The RPC server is unavailable. Event ID 13 Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CertEnroll Description: Certificate enrollment for Local system failed to enroll for a DomainController certificate with request ID N/A from {hostname}{name...
VMware ESXi – Adding a USB device to a Guest Virtual Machine
KB ID 0000778 Problem About a week ago a client asked me how to do this, and I was surprised I’d not got it covered on the site. I have already covered how to do this with VMware Workstation, but never got round to doing the same for ESX. There are a myriad of reasons why you may need to do this, either to connect a UPS, a printer, thumb drive, or a software dongle etc. But the process is identical. Solution 1. USB pass through...