Noor Khaldi's questions

I'm fairly new to pfSense, so bear with me please.

To summarize, I have:

• A network with split DNS enabled.
• A single IIS web server with a single IP, different sites running using different host header binding over port 80, all sites working fine for internal users.
• pfSense 2.3.4-RELEASE-p1 with Squid 0.4.40 installed on network edge.
• What I have looks like the image below:

What I'm trying to achieve:

• Publish the internal sites for external users using the same internal URLs.
• Transparent Proxy (for internal caching and CalmAV) and HTTPS are not needed.

I read that pfSense can do this trick using Reverse Proxy, I followed the steps mentioned here to enable it (with the exception of using the same 80 port for internal sites): https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/2vyiiy/til_reverse_proxy_via_squid_in_pfsense/

Problem:

• When external users type in the site URL and hit enter, the browser starts trying to connect, but after a few seconds it fails without loading the page, what is even weird is that the URL they typed is redirected from HTTP to HTTPS.

Troubleshooting:

• Disabled Transparent HTTP Proxy for internal communication.
• The Squid logs are not showing anything related to redirection of URL.
• The pfSense firewall logs shows that external users are able to connect once using HTTP, and then all the traffic is communicated using HTTPS

Questions:

• Is this scenario even valid with pfSense/Squid?
• If yes, what am I missing? if not, what is the alternative?
• Do I have to publish the sites by using different ports on IIS and enable port redirection on Pfsense? (which is the very thing that I'm trying to avoid)

Any additional steps or troubleshooting advice is very much appreciated.

So I have this Fax number attached to a modem inside a Windows 2012 R2 DC.

I followed the steps on: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134193.aspx to install and configure the Fax Service. Everything on the DC is working fine, I'm able to send and receive faxes just good using my domain admin account.

The problem is that I can't connect to the DC server over the network using the "Windows Fax and Scan" tool, whenever I try initiate the fax setup on a remote machine and connect to the fax server, the following error appears:

Not even the domain admin can connect, so I suspect that it has something to do with being a DC, but I could be wrong, any help is appreciated.

Background: I have a single domain, running in 2 sites that is connected using Site-to-Site VPN.

• Site A is running in time zone 2:00+ UTC
• Site B is running in time zone 4:00+ UTC

DCs are correctly placed into their own corespondent subnet in the Active Directory Sites and Services. All DCs are running Windows 2012 R2, all clients are running Windows 8.1

What I am trying to achieve: sync all users in the domain with an external NTP server for login purposes with an online service, I enabled NTP on the PDC to sync with an external source using the Microsoft FixIT article http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/816042.

What really happened: users in Site A are working correctly, users in Site B are syncing from the PDC too, but their time zone keeps changing from 4:00+ UTC to 2:00+ UTC, users in Site B can change the TZ back to 4:00+ UTC, but whenever their machines resync with the PDC, the TZ changes back to 2:00+ UTC.

How I tried to solve this problem: I created a group policy computer start up script that reads

Tzutil.exe /s "Arabian Standard Time"

The syntax should change the TZ to 4:00 UTC, I linked the login script to Site B, I can confirm that the script is running successfully and the time changes to 2:00+ UTC upon login, however, after awhile, the machines sync to the PDC and the TZ goes back to 2:00+ UTC.

Help?

We have our own internal VoIP system in which our employees are using to communicate to each other, each VoIP station has an extension number assigned for each employee.

We would like to use Active Directory to add the extension number to our local Active Directory so it can appear on the directory searches and use DirSync so the extension attribute can appear on Outlook and Lync users business cards.

Is it possible do to this? and if yes, how?

We have:

• A Windows 2012 R2 domain.
• An Office 365 E3 subscription
• DirSync one-way replication (no ADFS)

Thanks,

let me start by saying I'm not good at all in writing scripts or troubleshooting them, thus me being here :)

I'm trying to find all the computers in a windows domain network that are using static IP addresses, I have made a small research online and found out this PowerShell script that goes as follow:

param ( 
    [string]$LDAPFilter = '(name=*)', 
    [switch]$Verbose 
) 
Get-ADComputer -LDAPFilter $LDAPFilter | 
% ` 
{  
    $name = $_.DNSHostName; 
    if ($Verbose.IsPresent) 
      { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Connecting to $name..." }  
    $ints = Get-WmiObject -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ComputerName $name ` 
      -Query "select IPAddress, DefaultIPGateway from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where IPEnabled=TRUE and DHCPEnabled=FALSE"; 
    if ($ints -ne $null) 
        { 
            foreach ($int in $ints) 
            { 
                foreach ($addr in $int.IPAddress) 
                { 
                    $ip = $null 
                    if ($addr -match "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}") 
                    { 
                        $ip = $addr 
                        $gw = $null 
                        foreach ($gw_addr in $int.DefaultIPGateway) 
                        { 
                            if ($gw_addr -match "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}") 
                            { 
                                $gw = $gw_addr 
                                break 
                            } 
                        } 
                        if ($ip -ne $null) 
                        { 
                            $info = New-Object PSObject -Property ` 
                            @{ 
                                Name = $name 
                                IP = $ip 
                                Gateway = $gw 
                            } 
                            $info 
                            if ($Verbose.IsPresent) 
                                { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow $info } 
                        } 
                    } 
                } 
            } 
        } 
} | 
Select-Object Name, IP, Gateway

I tried to run this on my Active Directory server, problem is, the script gives an error while running as follow:

Missing expression after unary operator '-'.
At C:\Users\Administrator.MyDomain\Desktop\ComputersWithStaticIP.ps1:24 char:8
+       - <<<< Query "select IPAddress, DefaultIPGateway from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where IPEnabled=TRUE an
d DHCPEnabled=FALSE";
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (-:String) [], ParseException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingExpressionAfterOperator

I traced my way to removing the "-" from the script, and then got this error instead:

ForEach-Object : Cannot bind parameter 'Process'. Cannot convert the " " value
of type "System.String" to type "System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock".
At C:\Users\Administrator.MyDomain\Desktop\ComputersWithStaticIP.ps1:18 char:2
+ % <<<<  `
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [ForEach-Object], Parameter
   BindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.PowerSh
   ell.Commands.ForEachObjectCommand

What am I doing wrong? or what should I add/remove from the script to make it run?

Thanks,

I have a Proliant DL380 G5 server with HP Smart Array P400 controller, the performance of the disk I/O is bad lately and I found out that during my research that I can improve it by enabling the write cache memory on the HP Smart Array P400 controller.

I also found out that in order to keep the data on the disks attached to the array safe in case of power failures or server hang-up, I will need to add a battery-backed write cache (BBWC) module.

I looked up the Smart Array spare part numbers here, but I got totally lost:

• The memory boards read that there are 512 and 256 MB modules, is it safe to install the 512 and forget the 256 one? Knowing that my array have 256 MB total cache size in it.
• I would assume that I need the Battery Cable and Battery Pack to be installed with with the memory board. Correct?
• I couldn't find anything to show how the actually installation is done (step-by-step), can you provide any known link to do the job?

Thanks,

I have a dedicated server running SQL server and many web servers running SharePoint 2010 installations. All the SharePoint web servers are using the same SQL server for storing/creating databases.

As I know, When SharePoint is installed it creates a collection of databases for itself to work (around 8 or 10).

Two Questions:

• How can I know which group of databases belong to which installation of SharePoint?
• When I uninstall SharePoint, the databases remain on the SQL server, how do I clean SQL from a removed/uninstalled SharePoint installation?

Thanks,

I have a database server in my network running SQL 2008 R2.

I have SharePoint 2010 installed on a separate server and using the above server for database storage.

I want to install a new Project Server 2010 (utilizing SharePoint 2010) on a new 3rd server.

Can I configure the new Project/SharePoint to use the same above database server? Or will it conflict with the previous SP installation? I tried to search the web but I got only issues regarding security and they're not really confirmed.

Thanks,

I have a CRM 4.0 32bit in my network with SQL 2008 SP3 installed on it.

I installed a new CRM 2011 64bit server with SQL 2008 R2 SP1 on my network with reports extension and update rollup 5.

On the 4.0 server, I created a backup of the CRM organization database (just that, didn't take the MSCRM_CONFIG) and restored it to the 2011 server.

Using the deployment manager, I disabled the already existing organization that comes with CRM 2011, and tried to import the restored 4.0 database, the import process took around 30 minute and the notification bar went all to the end, it failed with this error:

17:55:00| Info| Setting organization state. New state = Failed 
17:55:00| Error| Upgrade Organization with Id=00df99ad-612d-4d30-80dc-40cb2aa60934 failed with Exception:
 System.Exception: Action Microsoft.Crm.Tools.Admin.UpgradeNewSolutionAwareEntities failed. ---> Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: There should only be one role for a role template in root business. TemplateId d9d602db-2761-4170-877f-983494567c08
 at Microsoft.Crm.ObjectModel.SolutionsUpgrade.RoleSolutionUpgrader.GetRoleForTemplate(Guid templateId, ExecutionContext context)
 at Microsoft.Crm.ObjectModel.SolutionsUpgrade.RoleSolutionUpgrader.Upgrade(ExecutionContext context)
 at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.Admin.UpgradeNewSolutionAwareEntities.Do(IDictionary parameters)
 at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Common.CrmAction.ExecuteAction(CrmAction action, IDictionary parameters, Boolean undo)
 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- 

Can anyone please help me with this error?