Following the recent Poodle vulnerability, and the general best practice that you should always use the most secure protocols available, I have been spending some time reconfiguring servers. Setting the order of ciphers, and enabling Forward Secrecy in Windows requires editing the registry – a lot. This is susceptible to errors, as the process is
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Category: Server 2008
Clean Up Unused Printer Drivers
Working on a printer migration project, and one of the first steps was to clean up the existing print servers so that when running the migration. I wanted a way to contact remote print servers too. This script, once imported allows cleanup of remote print servers. Requires Powershell 4, so run off a Windows 8/Windows
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Windows Update Error 80244023
Just a quick one here. I am sure there are a number of other fixes around for this error, but a reminder here to check for the simple things. Running Windows Update using WSUS on Windows Server 2008. Clicked the Check for Updates option and this error came up. Check your proxy settings. If you
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Redirected My Documents folders showing as ‘Documents’ rather than the users name
Had a complaint from a member of staff recently that all students work folders showed up as My Documents when he was browsing through their work. Many of you may have been directed to this Microsoft KB as a ‘solution’. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947222 Not much of a solution if you ask me. Redirection to a subfolder would
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Specified Port is Unknown error when adding Network Printers
Just finished investigating and resolving an error whereby the message ‘Specified Port is Unknown’ appears when adding a network printer. This was first noticed when running a login script that add’s printers didn’t actually add any printers. To fix this problem, you need to delete references to the printer drivers in the registry. I had
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Windows 2008 R2 RDS: Print Spooler Stops
We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing: Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Exception code: 0xc0000374 After trying to
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Login Script Not Running Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Call today: User has not got any network drives when logging on to the thin clients. The setup for this is as follows: 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 servers running RDS, DNS round robin, load balanced. 56 x ThinStation 2.2.2 clients A VBS login script is applied using Group Policy. All student users have
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ISA 2006: Re-design
Just been working on our ISA infrastructure. We have 2 ISA servers, 1 for staff, and 1 for students. Main reason for the separate servers is that each ‘group’ have to go through a different upstream proxy server. (Bit of a pain, but that’s what we have to do.) Simple task this morning, block a
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Sharepoint Search 2007: Your License for Office Server Search has expired.
Just been fixing the problem mentioned above. Lets set the scene here: Walk in this morning, coffee, boot up. Open up IE, need to update a record on our asset log. Enter the asset ID into the search bar, press enter. Easy day ended. 9:10am. ‘Your license for Office Server Search has expired’ We have
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Backup Exec 12: Remote SharePoint Agent – Access Denied
Just coming to the end of fixing a very frustrating problem with Backup Exec 12, and backing up our SharePoint 2007 farm. After over 8 hours on the phone and extra work done by email with Symantec engineers, I have a solution. Here’s the basic information: SharePoint Server: Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 SharePoint Server
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