As a last resort, it is occasionally necessary to reset the network connection on a server or desktop. As an example of the rarity, I have used the command once in over 10 years as an IT professional. In my case, I was troubleshooting a network connection problem on a server running Microsoft Server 2003…
How to use Web enrollment pages to submit a certificate request to an enterprise CA To submit a certificate request that contains a SAN to an enterprise CA, follow these steps: Open Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, connect to http://servername/certsrv. Note servername is the name of the Web server that is running Windows Server 2003…
I needed to document DHCP information for a client across their large Enterprise consisting of more than 15 DHCP servers and each with several scopes. I dreaded documenting by hand, so I turned to my usual trick of collecting information by command line. First I found just the article I need about how to…
I was working for a Credit Card Processing company that wanted to remove Root Hints from their DNS servers and add forwarders to specific DNS servers. This didn’t seem like a difficult task at all. Open the DNS MMC and remove the Root Hints, unfortunately it turns out to be a little more complicated than…
As the former Administrator for several other Enterprise level AV products and now a consultant for a Microsoft Consulting company, I was very interested in the configurability of alerting within Forefront Client Security (FCS). Unfortunately, there wasn’t much specific information regarding configuring this aspect and what did exist was spread out or hard to find.…
Solution IMPORTANT: These instructions are intended to be used by ePO administrators. You are responsible for preventing any adverse effects as a result of following these instructions. Before proceeding, McAfee strongly recommends that you back up the MSDE or SQL database and verify that the backup will restore successfully. For information related to backing up the…
I recently stumbled onto a somewhat major issue during OSD that is the result of a fundamental (bad) assumption made by many including Windows itself and Internet Explorer. That assumption is that at some point during the deployment of Windows (Windows 7 in this case), an Administrator will log on to the system. This may…
A colleague of mine just posted a blog article which details the step-by-step process for installation of System Center Orchestrator 2012 (SCORCH – I love the short name for this one). Check it out at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/vmontalbano/archive/2011/06/23/system-center-orchestrator-server-installation.aspx
I did my first installation of System Center Orchestrator 2012 in my home lab this evening. As a good practice always go to Windows update and install all of the necessary security updates for Windows Server 2008 R2. System Center Orchestrator 2012 requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Click the link in step 2 to install .NET…
Here’s a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of not doing any manual work during OSD: manual work is un-IT. A quick web search, using Bing of course (Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Install Fonts Using a Script- – Hey), and a little scripting knowledge resulted…
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