Just a quick workaround post here. I was working with a customer recently who had a newly provisioned Configuration Manager with all GPOs and their standard server products installed. As part of the install, the Endpoint Protection Point was required so that they could use and manage System Center Endpoint Protection/Windows Defender. After picking up…
I’ve been implementing Configuration Manager in an organisation recently which has multiple domains including a single label domain. Now to cut the whole post short I’m not going to step you through how to implement in a single label domain, it can’t/shouldn’t/isn’t supported to be done unless you set up a disjointed DNS namespace. I’m…
So it was announced late last week that the R2 wave Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 products is to be RTM on October 18th 2013. In parallel to these releases Microsoft is also going live with the long awaited Windows 8.1. This is surely the biggest date in Microsoft’s calendar this year, the…
I’ve recently joined forces with the guys from the UK Windows Management User Group or WMUG for short. As I’m based in the North of England I complement the existing guys who are mainly based in the South of the country so hopefully we can arrange some events outside of London and Reading (MS HQ).…
A quick post here for one I’ve come across a few times. When trying to enable to .Net Framework 3.5 in Windows Server 2012 you get the message that you are missing source files as below: Essentially you need to provide Windows with the installation media to be able to install .Net Framework 3.5. That…
Isn’t it funny how things in life seem to go round in circles over sometimes? Whilst reading and talking to people recently about Microsoft Windows Server 2012 the one thing that is always mentioned is “you need to know powershell”. It seems that Microsoft are now really making a big push now to get people…
Whilst searching for a SQL Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide I stumbled across this link http://bit.ly/A8nQsI (69MB zip file) which allows you to download 92 current (and some past) IPD guides in one fell swoop. Really handy to keep hold of as a point of reference whether you’re a multi-skilled consultant or internal sys admin, these…
As in one of my previous blog posts I re-visited the CIS website today and was very pleased to find that they had published hardening guides for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. These really are great guides which in my mind should be in every IT department and at least reviewed as a baseline policy for your…
If you ever find yourself in the position whereby you need to enforce a machine to use a particular KMS server or port then read on. Equally if you have a machine that doesn’t seem to read the KMS server _vlmcs srv records from DNS then check this. If you browse the registry with regedit…
If you’ve been wondering where your cluster.log file is on your Windows Server 2008 cluster then you may be disappointed to find out that it no longer exists in 2008. Don’t be disheartened though as you can still generate a log file for your troubleshooting. In an elevated command prompt (if using UAC) type the…
More than patches 