Script to sync Domain Controller SSL Certificates to a specific host

We have an application that uses LDAP over SSL to authenticate users via Active Directory. The server running the application is a member of the domain and has the domains Root CA installed in it’s local certificate store. Technically the Root CA should be good enough for the server and any applications on it to … Read more

Migrating DHCP from 2003 to 2012 R2

This post will likely fall on deaf ears since no one out there is still running Windows Server 2003 right? Well we are for our oldest DHCP server. Better yet it’s 2003 Standard (non R2) which means I can’t installed Active Directory Management Gateway Service which would allow me to remotely access DHCP on the 2003 … Read more

After vCenter 6.5 U1g newly cloned VMs report “HA not enabled”

Our environment is: vCenter 6.5 U1g (8024368) running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard VM (we’re moving to an appliance once we go 6.7) vSphere 5.5 7504623, 8 node cluster Since upgrading to the latest vCenter every new VM we clone into our production cluster reports “The virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA Protected … Read more

How to remove the NetApp Host Utilities hotfix check

  Update 2018-10-18 – Check out this comment. Looks like a much easier method than my MSI editing one.   Sick of the hotfix requirements for NetApp Host Utilities? Me to. On a test/dev server I have I’ve been experimenting with Veeam, iSCSI, ReFS and Server 2016. I wanted to run the NetApp Host Utilities … Read more