Category: Microsoft

  • Notes from the lab: Citrix ADC Native OTP and AdminSDHolder

    While doing some lab work I came across an issue that the Domain Admin accounts could not register on the manageotp site while Domain Users could. This got me figuring it out. For the use of Native OTP on the ADC we need to use an bind account for Active Directory which has the appropriate…

  • Notes from the field: uberAgent to the rescue!!

    We all know it, the once in a while “it’s slow logging  on..” and then it gets dropped at the escalation desk for a resolution. So I got the call for troubleshooting this issue. Since I knew from previous experiences that uberAgent is the troubleshooting tool you will want for this I contacted them and…

  • Notes from the lab: Exchange Server 2016 CU6 broken by default??

    I came across the most peculiar issue I’ve seen so far with Exchange 2016. Installed a greenfield setup and the ECP/OWA page was broken by default with the following entry in event viewer: ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Event time: 9-9-2017 22:26:57 Event time (UTC): 9-9-2017 20:26:57 Event ID:…

  • Notes from the lab: Windows Server 2016 and MDT gen2 secure boot

    For some upcoming projects and also lab use cases I’ve decided to brush up on some MDT/Automation tasks. For this I’ve deployed a new Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VirtualMachine Gen2 with secure boot enabled and installed MDT server and configured it to an up and running environment(yeah.. right). At first I thought there were some…