The topic says it all. Had anyone generated a self signed token signing cert from a template and where can you download a template (not a tool like makecert)? This is not the generic SSL cert, but a token signing cert.
I am trying to figure out how the prior admins managed to get some guest network adapters into an "invalid device backing" state. According to a support article (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2008092) it's due to removing a dvswitch in an unsupported way. Anhy thoughts on what that "unsupported way" might be? All the admins deny being anything less than perfect so without some sort of "gotcha" from a log I can't call them on it.
I've changed the for all users UPN suffix of a company from us.mycompany.local to mycompany.com in order to use claims-aware applications. In testing before the change I discovered that even if I changed the UPN suffix, a user could successfully authenticate using the old suffix. What I don't understand is why this still works.
How many Relying party trusts can you add to ADFS 2.0 before performance degrades? Does the number of RP trusts affect performance?
I'm having a hard time finding information about whether implementing ipv6 or using a stretched vlan is a better option for geographically dispersed sites is better. Does anyone know:
- Problems with stretched vlans (mac address broadcasting etc)
- costs for devices to solve those problems
- pros for using IPv6 instead
EDIT. What I am looking for is pros and cons against implementing the equipment required to implement stretched IPv4 vlans vs simply using IPv6 to solve the same problems. Eg admins stretch vlans instead of route because protocol X can't be routed, but IPv6 can encapsulate protocol X so there is no need to worry about that problem.
Edit 2: Lets say that one of the problems to be solved is migrating VMs across physical datacenters, Will IPv6 solve the problem of needing to stretch the vlan?
I am looking for a detailed explanation of which project will provide the most bang for the buck as well as reduce network complexity. So far the answers have centered around them as if they are not related (which I see as them being related as IPv6 removes vlan requirements entirely- making it extremely difficult to implement any vlan stretching infrastructure) - but have the same requirements of supporting multiple datacenters in a dispersed environment. All of my providers support IPv6 and we'll probably get a provider independent /48 (if we go that route)
How can I view SMART data on hardrives either on individual machines or (prefered) across an enterprise under windows 7/2008 r2?
In this question Find IPv6 Router advertising a prefix Mark makes a comment that IPv6 router advertisements are bad.
Why is IPv6 traffic on the network bad? (even if it is a rogue router advertisement which it sounds to me like it would only be a problem if you were already routing IPv6) Is this only bad when you are routing IPv6 already?
I have a suprising number of issues in a client environment that revolve around being unable to RDP to a system that has remote administration enabled. In all cases a reboot resolves the issue. Is there anything else that others are doing to resolve this? I'd really rather not reboot an otherwise functional server.
Is there a way to reset the RDP connection via WMI? Is there a way to test if the RDP protocol is functional (other than telnet to 3389)
EDIT:
As far as I can tell, no updates have been added. It seems to just die without cause.
What are the baseline perfmon counters for monitoring SQL Server and what do they mean?
I am trying to export the local security policy on a number of servers into a template file which I can then import into a group policy. I cna do this manually without issue but I have been unsuccesssful in finding a way to script this process. Is is possible to script the creation of the export of local security policy?
I wanted to get a quick report of some log entries I saw on a server, so I ran:
Get-Eventlog -logname system -newest 10 -computer fs1 | fl
I got events back however the descriptions were all wrong. Here's an example:
Index : 1260055 EntryType : Warning InstanceId : 2186936367 Message : The description for Event ID '-2108030929' in Source 'W32Time' cannot be found. The local compute r may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display the message, or you may not have permission to access them. The following information is part of the event:'time. windows.com,0x1' Category : (0) CategoryNumber : 0 ReplacementStrings : {time.windows.com,0x1} Source : W32Time TimeGenerated : 1/25/2010 10:43:31 AM TimeWritten : 1/25/2010 10:43:31 AM UserName :
Note that if I pull the event ID property it's correct (in this case 38)
Is this is known issue or is something wrong. The messages resolve fine via event viewer locally and remotely
Here is the powershell version info:
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I am trying to modify and existing sql server 2005 maintenance plan. It's currently set to run a full backup that will expire in 3 days. It is also set to append existing under if files exists. I want to set it to overwrite if files exist however that particular dropdown is greyed out. I have full rights to the system and to SQL server. How can I get it to let me choose overwrite? In creating a new job the very second I tell it to create a backup file for every database it greys out the option on if files exists.
I'm looking for the best way to send passwords over the internet safely. Options I've looked at are PGP and encrypted RAR files. There are no real parameters other than getting from point a to point b over the internets without too much risk.