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Control The Amount Of Cached Logons
One of my colleagues had a project where they though it would be a good idea to restrict the amount of cached logons to 1. This would ensure only the last logged on user (the owner) would be able to...
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Exchange 2010 Autodiscover/Outlook Anywhere Knowledge Bits
A while ago I had to publish Exchange 2010 services across TMG 2010. All what’s below is more or less from the TMG administrator point of view. All of the tests are done externally (across TMG).Also,...
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Quick Tip: Win 8 Quick Launch To Admin Tools
A colleague of mine today learned me this neat shortcut: typing windows key + x on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview gets you a small menu with a lot of frequently used mmc’s. See for your self:I...
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Service Accounts: Active Directory Permissions Issues: Part #1 SharePoint
Currently I’m involved in a project where we are setting up a lot of Windows technologies, just to name a few: Dynamics Ax 2012, BizTalk, SharePoint 2010, FIM 2010 and thus SharePoint Foundation 2010....
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Service Accounts: Active Directory Permissions Issues: Part #2 Dynamics Ax 2012
The solution “grant Authenticated Users Read permissions on the involved service accounts” can also be applied during installations of Dynamics Ax 2012. In fact it’s twofold. We came across two...
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Service Accounts: Active Directory Permissions Issues: Part #3 SQL 2008 R2
And yep, there’s more instances of this phenomena! I also came across the following when install an Active Directory Federation Services farm which uses SQL to store its configuration. Whilst there was...
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Service Accounts: Active Directory Permissions Issues: Part #4 Conclusion
In the last three posts:Service Accounts: Active Directory Permissions Issues: Part #1 SharePointService Accounts: Active Directory Permissions Issues: Part #2 Dynamics Ax 2012Service Accounts: Active...
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GPOtool Sysvol Mismatch
Recently some colleagues of me logged a case because a GPO which worked fine before didn’t seem to work anymore. In the GPO the security of c: was redefined. In the end the root cause of that problem...
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Dynamics Ax 2012: Error Installing Enterprise Portal
I was assisting a colleague which was installing the Ax 2010 Enterprise Portal on a SharePoint Farm. The farm consisted of 2 servers hosting the SharePoint web applications (the actual sites), and 2...
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Windows OS About To Stop Support For RSA Keys Under 1024 Bits
One of my colleagues was having troubles accessing an HTTPS site. The site is secured with a certificate coming from an Active Directory Certificate Authority. Now I know of a bug where if you have a...
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Solaris OpenWindows, Xming and Windows 7 Stealth Mode Firewall
First off, this is a very very very specific issue which I think not many people will run in to. But as I found some forum posts here and there which look like the same I thought I'd post it...
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Windows Azure: Add Your Own Management Certificate
Recently I figured out that I can try out Azure as that comes as one of the benefits of having an MSDN account. I got 375 hours of free computing hours per month! Just for the fun of it I want to host...
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DebugView 100% CPU In a Windows 2008 VM
A while ago I got a tip of a colleague to use the DebugView utility from Sysinternals (Microsoft) to debug code. Once in a while I write a simple rules extension for Forefront Identity Manager, or even...
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SCCM 2007: DCM Development Tip
The actual reason why I’m toying around with DCM (Desired Configuration Management) will be explained in my next post. But here’s a tip I’ve found to be quit practical when trying to get your CI...
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SCCM 2007: DCM Check For A Registry Value Only If the Value Exists
This is a bit far from my regular technologies, but today I used the DCM (Desired Configuration Management) feature of SCCM to map the amount of clients which are suffering a particular issue. More...
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Quick Tips: September Edition #1
Ok, I’ve gone through my mailbox and I’ve got quite some little neat tricks I want to share and most of all never forget myself. So I’ll put them here for future reference.Tip #1 (Network): Remember...
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Win 8 Client: Manage Wireless Networks, Where Art Thou? Follow Up
A while ago I posted a workaround to manage the more advanced settings of wireless networks: Win 8 Client (Dev Preview): Manage Wireless Networks, Where Art Thou?In some of the comments I read that in...
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UAG: Trunk With Anonymous Authentication Not Working
A few days ago I was setting up an UAG which has a trunk configured with anonymous authentication so that I could publish our FIM Self Service Password Reset page. I think I tried to outsmart UAG...
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Temporary Profiles and IIS Application Pool Identities
I’m a bit stumbled that I’ve only come across this now. Recently I discovered that there are some cases where you can end up with your service account using a temporary profile. Typically this is the...
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FIM 2010 R2 Password Reset Configuration Troubleshooting
I configured a FIM 2010 R2 for Self Service Password Reset using Email OTP. This is documented quite well on TechNet. However when my test user provided the OTP and entered a new password he got...
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