This blog discusses Cross Forest Certificate Enrollment and the steps required to do it. What is Cross Forest Certificate Enrollment? Enterprises can build a central PKI in one Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest that issues certificates to domain members in other forests by using cross-forest enrolment. By combining certificate templates from many forests […]
This article focuses on how to upgrade an HP ProLiant Gen10 server from ESXi v6.5 to v6.7 using ESXCLI but could be used for any supported upgrade. Online and Offline methods are both shown. Review the correct version VMware ESXi Upgrade documentation to ensure any pre-requisites are identified/actioned, that the system hardware complies with ESXi […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to upgrade ADFS server runs on 2012. I was able to upgrade 2012 server to 2019 via Windows in-place upgrade without reconfiguring or rebuilding entire server. This a very brife write up on how to do this. **It is best to backup or take a proper snapshot of the server […]
I found it hard to follow and understand this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/high-availability/database-availability-groups/metacachedatabase-setup?view=exchserver-2019 and could not find actual step-by-step information on configuring Exchange Server MCDB anywhere. So, I created my own. The process of setting up MCDB can be broken down into five basic steps: Set the correct values for the DAG you want to enable for MCDB. Update […]
If you have the following message, Performance counters not started, on the Server Manager on All Servers menu. The solution is simple: Right Click on the Server Name Click on Start Performance Counters Voilà
Enable the following registry settings on the RMS server and reboot. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters Name: DisableStrictNameChecking Type: DWORD Value: 1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa Name: DisableLoopbackCheck Type: DWORD Value: 1
Once the installation of the AD RMS role successfully completes, you will natrually try and launch the AD RMS console to check your new installation, however that won’t work. Doing so will result in a HTTP 401 Unauthorized error. To resolve the problem, you need to log off the server and then log on again. […]
I have implemented this week multiparty conferencing through the new Cisco’s CMS conferencing product. CMS enables Lync and Cisco users to participate in the same conference with a seamless behavior between Lync and Cisco experience. The CMS is excellent for organizations where both Lync and Cisco UC deployments are used. (yes, Cisco is best in Telephony, […]