The Web Site for the CA Must be Configured to use HTTPS
Jan13

The Web Site for the CA Must be Configured to use HTTPS

KB ID 0000838  Problem When attempting to contact a server running the Certification Authority Web Enrolment role, you may see the following error. In order to complete certificate enrolment, the Web site for the CA must be configured to use HTTPS authentication Solution The correct fix is to set the web server (IIS) to serve the certificate website securely using https, though you can just set Internet explorer to ‘work’...

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Meraki Block Page http://wired.meraki.com:8090  ‘Not Found’
Nov13

Meraki Block Page http://wired.meraki.com:8090 ‘Not Found’

KB ID 0001365 Problem If you have a Meraki Security device and have enabled ‘Content Filtering’, instead of a nice ‘block-page’ informing you why you are being blocked you may see this; http://wired.meraki.com:8090 This is happening because your Corporate DNS is resolving ‘wired.meraki.com’ to 54.241.7.184, which you can also see if you look at the URL you are trying to connect to it on port 8090. A...

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Event ID 1026
Nov17

Event ID 1026

KB ID 0000134  Problem Event ID 1026 The DNS server was unable to create a name in memory for name “<host name>” in zone “<zone name>” in the Active Directory. This directory name is ignored. Use the DNS console to recreate the records associated with this name or check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and reload the zone. The event data contains the error.  DNS cant be updated with...

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Event ID 4004 and 4015
Nov17

Event ID 4004 and 4015

KB ID 0000133  Problem Event 4004 and 4015 The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is “”. The event data contains the error. and The DNS server was unable to complete directory service enumeration of zone .. This DNS server is configured to use information obtained from...

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Windows – Setting Up Split DNS
Nov17

Windows – Setting Up Split DNS

KB ID 0000830 Problem Setting up split DNS is something I usually do if I’m setting up a new Microsoft Exchange Server. Primarily this is because of certificates that are used on the Exchange Server like so; Now, as anyone who has purchased a Universal Comms/SAN (Subject Alternative Name) certificate will know that you can put the internal name of the server on the certificate as well e.g. ex1.abc.local. Well that’s fine,...

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