Sole's Blog

How to configure your virtual Domain Controllers and avoid simple mistakes with resulting big problems

Sole — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:56:52 +0000

So You went ahead and used virtualized Domain Controllers for Your Active Directory domain, congratulations! I am sure You will be happy with the decission, as long as You have a decent virtualizing environment, this will give You both peace of mind, faster recovery and cheaper redundancy. There is however some special considerations You must [...]

Debugging an OCS installation just got easier

Sole — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:02:39 +0000

I might be realy slow in discovering this, after all it has been some months since I last touched an OCS installation. I seriusly wished I had this tool when I was last time thou. This tool just like the Exchange testing tool, will show all the steps involved in connecting to an OCS system [...]

VBScript to join computers to domain, with specific user and avoid having to manually place them in AD

Sole — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:28:49 +0000

The following script was used for automatically joining alot of computers to an Active Directory domain, it was required to place the computer in a specific Organizational Unit and also to run with a specified user with only permissions to add machines in this OU and the default new computers OU (giving it unlimited join [...]

How to silently install ZenWorks 10 with vbScript without having to watch the screen during installation

Sole — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:35:41 +0000

So You want to install ZenWorks 10.x.x.x silently on a machine, sounds easy enough right? Well ZenWorks is making it slightly harder, if You just run the installer with a stay quiet parameter, when it finishes and You or the installer reboots, it was not actually finished. After the installation ZenWorks sits and runs msi [...]

How to disable administrative shares on workstations thru Group Policy and avoid spending time on pesty virus infections

Sole — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:22:11 +0000

Large companies sometimes have problems with a virus that realy loves administrative shares on other workstations (i.e. c$ and admin$), it will try and break into theese to spread it self directly. The easy option ofcourse being kill the virus or even better harden administrative users and not use administrator rights for normal users! But untill [...]

How to get external SAN UC SSL certificates that work with OCS 2007 R2 and avoid having to read 100 blog posts!

Sole — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:31:54 +0000

Been reading up on external and internal DNS names used by OCS 2007 R2 ? Your head stopped spinning yet? So you’ve decided on what FQDN’s to use, next step order some SSL certificates, should be easy enough right, You allready figured out You need SLL certificates that are Unified Communications Certificates (UCC) enabled. In [...]

How to publish RD Web & Gateway (2008 r2) on ISA 2006, and still have time to watch The Big Bang Theory!

Sole — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:03:30 +0000

So I was asked the question, how do You publish the new Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 editions of Terminal Server, including the RD Web and RD Gateway (GW) services. And on top of that still use the ISA 2006 as authentication with Forms Based Authentication (needed in this case for RSA keys). Sounds [...]

How to get Outlook 2007 to save sent e-mail from a shared mailbox in the shared mailbox, and not pay for it!

Sole — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:55:50 +0000

What company with more than well.. 2 employees do not need a shared mailbox? well almost all the ones I know use some system to share a company general e-mail address and mailbox, this could be info@sole.dk, spamtrap@sole.dk or support@sole.dk and so on. One of the pains of shared mailboxes has always been to get the [...]

How to configure Exchange 2007 and ISA with FBA and NTLM, without loosing ActiveSync on the way

Sole — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:01:16 +0000

Basicly we are here, because we want to use Forms Based Authentication (FBA) for our Outlook Web Access (OWA) users in Exchange 2007, while still using NTLM/Kerberos authentication for Outlook Anywhere (OA), wich in turn means less entering of the users password, while still not killing our ActiveSync clients since they only run Basic authentication. [...]

Virtualizing Your Domain Controllers without getting fired!

Sole — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:19:31 +0000

Please pretty please do not just hit the button and P2V/ColdClone/HotClone/Copy your Windows Server Domain Controllers, regardless if they run Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 etc. In best case You accomplish to virtualize your domain controllers, wich You could have done with a few simple steps just as easily with out any danger. In worst case You [...]