Questions[autoconfiguration](server)

I am trying to push IP address and routes from OpenVPN server to client. I am using pre-shared static key as authentication mechanism.

Client is giving following error:

"Parameter --pull can only be specified in TLS-mode, i.e. where --tls-server or --tls-client is also specified"

Q1: Is it possible what am I trying to achieve and how ?

Q2: As technically not clear why two things are dependent on each other: (TLS-mode and pulling config) , why that is enforced ?

Outlook 365 finds the account through autodiscover without any problems, but warns about "Target Principle name is incorrect" (CN=eposthub.de), when adding an account like [email protected]

As I understand, the newest Outlook versions supports SAN-Certificates (alternate domain names).

My setup contains:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ IIS 7.5
2. hMailServer (IMAP, SMTP)

3. SSL-SAN-Certificate

   1. CN=eposthub.de.
   2. DNS-Name=smtp.nabil-redmann.de
   3. DNS-Name=imap.nabil-redmann.de
   4. DNS-Name=autodiscover.nabil-redmann.de

4. https://autodiscover.nabil-redmann.de/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

   • generated XML-content
   • GIST: aspx source + web.config

My ideas to a solution:

Q1: What can I do, to make the alternating domain names to be looked up (without having to touch the client system)?

Q1.2: ... with touching the client system?

Q2: Is there an Autodiscover.xml tag to make it accept a principal name?

Q3: What else did I miss?

from testconnectivity.microsoft.com, only 1 warning:

Analyzing the certificate chains for compatibility problems with versions of Windows.
Potential compatibility problems were identified with some versions of Windows.

Additional Details

The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer can only validate the certificate chain using the 
Root Certificate Update functionality from Windows Update. Your certificate may not 
be trusted on Windows if the "Update Root Certificates" feature isn't enabled.

what does that mean?

Currently on my network I have Windows Server 2012 setup with DNS, DHCP, and Squid Proxy. Most of the time when my clients connect to the network the DHCP server won't hand them an IP address, leaving them with an auto-configured address 169.254.x.x . What am I doing wrong? Google searching shows that auto-configuration only happens when the device can't find a DHCP server, but the server has a static IP already from the router.

The use-case is as given below:

The user has a Flat File in his Linux system. This file is a human readable/editable file which contains the configurations for all the needed components of his application running on the system. For example, the user has an application 'APP' which has components like 'A' , 'B' and 'C'. and the 'Flat File' is housing the configuration for 'A' , 'B' and 'C' as follows:

A
Parameter1: value1
Parameter2: value2
Parameter3: value3
..
..

B
Parameter1: value1
Parameter2: value2
Parameter3: value3
..
..

C
Parameter1: value1
Parameter2: value2
Parameter3: value3
..
..

The user is expecting a configuration utility to read this file and configure the components A, B and C appropriately using the REST APIs associated with the components when the application starts.

Is the configuration tool like Chef capable of doing the above scenario? Otherwise, recommend any other open source tools capable of doing this.

We are deploying some test e-mail servers with the subdomain mail (i.e., mail.example.com). Now, it seems that Thunderbird discovers that e-mail server when we are configuring e-mail.

How does Thunderbird accomplish this? I'm assuming it tries to append a list of subdomain with the right hand side of your e-mail address. Is this correct? If so, does anyone have any documentation of this and/or the list of subdomains it tries in order?