Microsoft RAS VPN and VXLAN not quite working

I’m not overly knowledgeable about advanced networking but I figured I’d share this since I couldn’t find anything online about it at the time. We run a Microsoft Remote Access Server (RAS) for our VPN server. We provide L2TP primarily for users. Due to a limitation in the Windows VPN client our RAS server has … Read more

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

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