Continuing my posts about the strange world of PKI and certificates. Today I browsed over to my CA using my Windows Vista Ultimate machine. Only to receive this message: ERROR: The certificate enrollment page you are attempting to access cannot be used with this version of Windows. To enable Web certificate enrollment for clients running …
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Requesting Web Server certificates from an Enterprise CA
One of the things I have never been able to figure out, is why you cannot request a certificate based on the Web Server template from a Windows Enterprise CA when you are using the CA web pages (<servername>/CertSrv). Ever since Windows 2000 I have occationally stumbeled on this problem but never had time to …
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Exchange 2007 Autodiscovery and Kerberos
The Exchange 2007 Autodiscover feature is one of the great imporvements in Exchange 2007. Using Autodiscover, clients can automatically configure their email settings. Outlook 2007 uses Autodiscover through Active Directory, searching for a Service Connection Point (SCP) that identifies all the Client Access servers in the organization. The SCP object, in turns, contains the URL …
Yet another (unannounced) Transporter Suite update
A new version of the Transport Suite for Lotus Domino has appeared on the Microsoft download site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en#filelist The vesion number is listed as 08.01.0223, and the file size of the transporter.msi file has also changed. Like last time this was not announced and no information exists about what changes have been made. I am …
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Exploring certificates in IIS
Recently, I’ve been having some issues with certificates in IIS 6.0 that have cause me to perform some operations that I do not normally do. That has taught me a thing or two about certificates in IIS and I have discovered some nice info which I link to in this post. First off is my …
Exchange 2007 Edge servers and Microsoft Networking services
I had an interesting experience today. I was setting up an Exchange Edge server for a customer. After configuring the TCP/IP settings I proceeded to the Exchange Management Console to enter the server’s product key. I had already prepared the server earlier, installing Exchange and all required patches. But when I selected Properties on the …
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Update to Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino
Evidently the Transporter team has released an updated version of the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino. I can find no updated release notes or any information about any changes. Then only evidence of an update is the size of the installer and the version reported by the management console. Old version: New version: The …
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SMS 2003 Remote Assistance Configuration
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 enables you to configure the Remote Assistance settings of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 computers. This article describes the details of how this is done. Remote Assistance is a technology in Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 that enables users to help each other over the network. With …
Exchange 2007: Unable to log on to Outlook Web Access “A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox. Please contact technical support for your organization.”
When you try to log on to Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007 you can successfully enter you username and password, but when you select your language and time zone and press OK you receive this error: The complete text of the message reads: Request Url: https://<fqdn>:443/OWA/lang.owa User host address: 172.16.1.25 Exception Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException …
Exchange 2007: Exploring Global message size restrictions
Exchange 2003 In Exchange 2003 you set the global message size restrictions are set with Exchange System Manager under Global Settings, Message Delivery: These settings are written to the Message Delivery object in the configuration partition in Active Directory. The object has the distinguished name (DN): CN=Message Delivery,CN=Global Settings,CN=<org name>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain> The attributes written are …
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