Windows Server Standard suddenly will not accept Domain Administrator...
I have a Windows Server 2008 standard 64bit server setup and has been running for a month or two and suddenly it will not accept the known good Domain Administrator credentials for a RDT or local...
View ArticleAlways Access Denied when choosing Automatically Enrol and Retrieve...
I am using 2008 R2 Certificate Services to issue certs across multiple forests (although don't let that muddy the waters).I have a need to issue certificates for use with s/ldap, so I have duplicated...
View ArticleW2012R2 - A certification chain processed correctly, but one of the CA...
Hi all.I have stanalone offline RootCA, and enterprise domain SubCA on DC on Windows 2012 server. I have Windows 2003 Terminal Server, users logon to TS via smart cards - and this work fine.Now I added...
View ArticleConsolidate 2 CAs to one Enterprise CA
Hya,We have 2 CAs in our Domain-One is a standalone and the other is an Enterprise CA.We would like to migrate the settings to the enterprise CA and decommision the standalone.What is the best way to...
View ArticleCDP location and CRL of Root CA is not available
HI,We had one Root CA and its no more avilable due to storage format. RootCA has one subordinate CA server and that server is fine.When veirfy CDP container via PKIVIEW.msc I can see that CRL of...
View ArticleA certification chain processed correctly, but one of the CA certificates is...
Hi all.I have stanalone offline RootCA, and enterprise domain SubCA on DC on Windows 2012 server. I have Windows 2003 Terminal Server, users logon to TS via smart cards - and this work fine.Now I added...
View ArticleGenerating Security Events for Auditing Purposes
Hello! What I’m writing about today concerns generating events in the Security Log on Win2008 R2 for auditing purposes. Information on this specific action is fairly scare online, from what I’ve seen,...
View ArticleInstalling SSL Certificate for all users in Active Directory
Hi, I have an SSL certificate which needs to be accessed by all users in the active directory, can i know whether there is any method to install the certificate for all the users in one Go instead of...
View ArticleDomain controller anomalous connection to remote Redplaid SMTP server
We've been battling some bandwidth issues at my company lately and so we've done extensive scouring of our Cisco ASA logs to try and find the source(s) of the problem. Over the weekend I ran into this...
View ArticleWindows Firewall Local Principals
Hello,First of all does any one have a link that explains usage for the new "Local Principals" tab in Windows 2012 R2 Windows Firewall?Secondly, i have setup an Windows 2012 R2 RDS server. Then i have...
View ArticleHardening IIS against DoS attacks
Hi,Our organization hosts a public facing website on IIS 7. This weekend a very simple DOS attack caused the application pool to crash.2014-04-05 19:15:39 dst_address POST / - 80 - src_address - - -...
View ArticleReduce Elevated SQL Products on Terminal
We have several users that need to use SQL Server Management Studio and Microsfot Visual Studio 2010. These both need to Run As Admin. However, the users are accessing them through a terminal,...
View ArticleSubject Key Identifier (SKI) changed after RootCA upgrade
Hello,I have a RootCA running windows 2003 ENT SP2 and I made an upgrade to a new machine (newer HW) and Windows 2008 R2. The original rootCA was configured with an HSM, so the backup CA is not an...
View ArticleAttribute field in 2008 R2 AD CS Web Enrollment - Obsolete?
Is the Attributes field in AD CS Web Enrollment now obsolete?I have implemented a Windows 2008 R2 two tier PKI infrastructure at my organization for some time now. We are just now rolling it out to our...
View ArticleAdd "System" to all folders without changing current settings.
SERVER 2003, 32-bit Due to a new backup program, requiring SYSTEM security to all folders being backed up, I need to make sure SYSTEM has full permission to all subfolders and files in the backup...
View ArticlePost CA Upgrade Cleanup of AD
We just upgraded our Windows Root CA from 2003 to 2012 R2. We kept the servername the same to minimize the migration. We noticed in AD there are some references to old CAs still there and wondered what...
View Articleadministrator password
I am downloading the sandstone player and its asking for my administrator password, but I don't know what that is. any help?
View ArticleHow to reset Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller "Administrator" password?
Hello Everyone,I have lost Administrator password for the following system:Windows 2008 R2Domain Controller setup on same machineStand alone server - no workstations or other servers invovledI still...
View ArticleVarious Certification Errors
We are managing a cluster of servers for a client (2008 R2). An Exchange certificate expired recently. Tried to renew this using the Certification Authority console on the Domain Controller/CA after...
View ArticleHeartbleed Vulnerability
This one is huge folks. At this time, Microsoft operating systems are not affected. That is to say the TLS/SSL/DTLS implementations in Schannel are not affected. Any OS connecting to a server using...
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