We run a couple of internal Windows CA’s for issuing certificates for our on-prem servers. Ran into a problem where a new template would not show up when I tried to assign it using “Certificate Template to Issue”. Solution was to open PowerShell as Admin on the CA and run: certutil -setcatemplates +”template_name“
I have some VM’s running Windows 11 that don’t have a virtual TPM chip associated. So upgrading to 25H2 was proving difficult because Windows Update wouldn’t pull it down. Did some digging and found the option to run setup from and elevated command prompt using: setup.exe /product server That option worked great and allowed me…
We have had a few times when users report that one or more mailboxes that they used to have delegated permissions to keep returning in Outlook. When we check the delegation on the mailboxes in question the user no longer is listed. Here is the solution we found. Step 1 – Add the delegation back…
We have been using Cisco Unity Connections for a long time and have had it integrated with Office 365 for voicemail notifications. We got reports that when someone was left a voicemail, their phone would reflect that there was a voicemail, but no notification was getting to the users Office 365 Inbox. After a little…
We have a Cisco WLC 9800 that we use for our guest wireless LAN. We have to use a SSL certificate on this wlan so when people connect they can trust the connection. We have used this for years and have never had problems updating the SSL certificate until this year. We reached out to…
Here is the process to create a custom delegation to allow users (other than Domain Admins) to access Bitlocker Recovery keys. Log into AD Users and Computers Make a new Security group called “deleg-computer-bitlockerrecovery” Add the relevant users to the group Navigate to the OU where you want to start the delegation. Right-click on the…
Microsoft is changing things again. If you have WSUS running in your environment you may not be able to install the familiar RSAT tools (at least not without a little work). I’ve found a couple of sites that talk about disabling WSUS temporarily so you can install the RSAT tools using “Feature On Demand” option.…
We have several Room Resources setup in Exchange 2013. When people are looking at the room calendar they would see the name of the organizer rather than subject of the meeting. Here are the commands you can run so that the appointments will show the subject instead. Note: If you already have appointments on the…
We started getting reports that some people were not getting their email on their mobile devices. I did some checking and this appeared only effect mailboxes that were in databases on a specific server. While troubleshooting this problem I saw some event id 2002 messages that read: “[Eas] The number of outstanding proxy requests for…
I help maintain a site that runs WordPress, but we don’t have ftp access to the box it runs on. So it makes doing WordPress upgrades a little difficult sometimes. I came across a site that had a little work around for this though. All you need to do is add “define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);” to the end…
