At my day job, we are getting ready to open a new office. It’s going to be a relatively small office, but we still wanted to have a local domain controller on hand for authentication, DNS, DHCP, etc. We decided that this would be a physical host, and since we weren’t going to run any […]
If you add a static IP in a core server, you may see that the auto configuration is on and giving a 169.0.0.0 number as the preferred address and the new static IP as the duplicate address. This will not work. When using a Core server, use the following steps to fix the issue. 4 […]
Problem A recommended best practice in previous versions of Windows Server operating system for failover clusters is to configure the binding order of the network adapters for all the nodes. In fact, if not properly configured, this appears as a Warning during the installation of a SQL Server failover clustered instance. However, I don’t see […]
There is a german proverb “Ubung macht den Meister” that I have always tried to apply to my day to day computer science skills. While dealing with my Public Key Infrastructure in the home datacenter (#HomeDC), this means having a proper multi-tier PKI infrastructure with a Standalone Root CA, an Issuing CA, a PKI Web […]
Problem If you are retiring a CA Server, or there’s a problem with the server and you want to move Microsoft Certificate Services to another server, the procedure is pretty straight forward. BE AWARE: We are moving the CA Server Name , NOT the Server Name (FQDN), the two things are NOT the same, (you might have called them the same thing!) […]
On one of my client’s server running Windows Server 2012 R2, when you launched PowerShell it would immediately crash with the error: and this would create windows events non-stop on the server as follows: At first you think you have the famous PowerShell Virus (Poweliks) but after downloading the Symantec tool and running it, all […]
What is the Local Administrator Password Solution? Simply put, Microsoft’s LAPS tool randomises the local administrator account on each computer and stores the new password on the computer object in Active Directory. Specifically, part of the installation process extends your Active Directory schema to include two new values: ms-Mcs-AdmPwd Stores the current Administrator password. ms-Mcs-AdmPwdExpirationTime […]
Remember when Windows Server 2008 R2 was released, and one of the exciting new features was Managed Service Accounts? Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) held so much promise – automatic password management and automatic SPN registration. Remember all of those service you have in the domain, that are over-privileged, and whose passwords haven’t changed in the past 5 […]