Server Core + network bindings
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts on March 20th, 2010
When you want to control the bindings on a network card in Server Core (2008R2), your stuck with the registry editor. So how do you A: know what binding you want to remove, B: where to locate it, C: to disable it..
A is easy.. you want to remove, File and Printer Sharing, Client for Microsoft Networks etc etc..
B: the bindings are located in two sections, to first look what’s installed go to:
HKLM\System\CCS\
When you configure Hyper-V networks, you must make sure to create them once, and only once.. else you will end up in great trouble. To get out.. use this manual
The problem I encountered was that my nic had previously been bound to a Hyper-V network and I wanted to connect it to a new network. No problem you say, except for the error message “Adapter is already bound to another virtual network”.
Normally you would open ncpa.cpl and go to the network adapter. Over there, de-select the binding for Hyper-V networks and click OK..In server core however this is much nicer!. (NOT!)
First we must get the network card ID:
Wmic nicconfig Description,SettingID
You will receive a list of all network adapters and their SettingID.. note the adapter you wish to use and copy the setting id
Start regedit and go to HKLM\System\CCS\Services\VMSP\Linkage
Double click the Bind entry.. and remove the SettingID noted earlier..
A reboot would be nice.. and you should be able to connect the networks to the appropriate NICs again
<<Update>> You can take a look at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/nvspbind, that would make things easier.
FIM RC1 U3 and admin rights
Posted by RZomerman in Active Directory, Other, Windows 2008 R2 on February 18th, 2010
So I tried to install the FIM RC (u3) in a demo environment, and what a hush hush was that.. My setup was fairly easy, all (except SQL) on a single box.. offcourse reading is not my best skill, but the install went fine.. and the portal was ready for the administrator account (installed it with). It opened on the fim server without a problem, but getting it to work remotely, that was another problem..
The guide tells you to register SPN’s for the Kerberos to work if the FIM Portal and FIM service are on seperate servers, but ALSO if you want to use the FIM password reset extension.. however registering the http/servername to a service account renders the remote login useless.. you will receive an HTTP Error 401. The requested resource required used authentication.
If you where to google (or bing) on that error code the links tell you to disable Kernel Mode kerberos in IIS.. well that kinda did NOT do the trick either and although the Sharepoint site comes up then, the FIM portal dies..
Best Practices Analyser + MOSS
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts, Other, Windows 2008 R2 on December 7th, 2009
When installing MOSS in an 2008R2 environment, you will notice that the Best Practices Analyser for Sharepoint will not run.. now this is not only to the fact that the BPA is running on the 2008R2 environment, it’s when the entire sharepoint farm is running on 2008R2. One option is to have a single 2008/2003 server on the same farm and point to that, or wait for the next release of BPA for Sharepoint.
The error received would be: Failed to retrieve the configuration database connection string from machine ‘<insert machinename>’ due to the following error: Failed to retrieve the configuration database connection string from machine ‘<insert machinename>’
Missing some hours lately?
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts on October 21st, 2009
Daylight saving time.. (DST).. some love it (due to some extra hours of sleep) some hate it.. because the have to program around it.. and so do the developers at Microsoft.. and then.. there are some countries that like to switch the dates they change the time (Argentina for example).. well all fuzzy logic if you ask me.. and so did the developers think.. and they accidently missed one date.. a date very close to come..(October 25th)
OWA 2010 Themes
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts on October 14th, 2009
As you might of seen, the themes option is removed in Exchange 2010.. the old layout has been changed to some ugly yellow stylish look (probably to make it look like Office 2010.. ). Personally I do not like the yellow and have always used the Zune theme in Outlook 2007 (not that I like the logo, more the coloring).
When you install the CAS role, you will notice that the OWA folder (that holds all the owa pictures) actually still has multiple folders.. 1,2,3 and base. And that base is the normal OWA design. 1 apparently is some dark neon glow sort of theme, 2 is the Xbox 360 theme and 3 is a fully renewed Zune theme!
Now since the option to choose a theme has been removed, an administrator can only set a theme for everybody (but way better than the dodgy yellow). Create a copy of the base folder and copy the contents of 1, 2 or 3 in the base folder.. press shift F5 on your webbrowser and voila a new theme!
Hyper-V 2.0 + NLB
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts on October 6th, 2009
If you want to create an NLB on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V, you will notice that all previous blog posts around this topic will do you no good.. Although you can setup the NLB, network traffic will halt no matter what you do.. change the mac to static, revert it back etc etc.. seems Hyper-V version 2.0 actually has a more neat way of allowing NLB traffic coming from clusters without setting static mac addresses..
Here’s how to get it working:
Create your VM and give your VM legacy network adapters (for 2003 at least) select the Dynamic Mac address but do select the Enable spoofing of MAC addresses option. Now create your NLB as you did before.. note that you do this on all network adapters that are in the or some sort of NLB. The intra-array traffic does not need this option.
Happy NLB’ing
PS; if you decide to use synthetic adapters you will receive the error: 8004100a00000000 meaning the NIC drivers are not NLB compatible..
Query AD for information
Posted by RZomerman in Active Directory, Scripting on September 1st, 2009
So.. been busy lately.. but here’s a new topic.. Windows 2008? R2? Kerberos? No.. it’s scripting..
I had a customer who wanted to extract information from AD by a custom application. Offcourse we could open port 389 and have them extract the info.. but perhaps it would be easier to just query the Global Catalog (if the info you want is in there)..
What’s the next topic
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts, Other on June 3rd, 2009
Perhaps you dear readers want to know more about a specific thing? Take the poll .. and I will see what I can do 
Group Policy Preferences & Drive Mappings
Posted by RZomerman in . All Posts, Other, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 on June 3rd, 2009
When using GPP’s to map drives, some of you will notice that some drives are not correctly mapped on the clients. Some users will receive other network mappings (they “sort of” never heard of before) and some network connections are there, but will not be re-attached (device name is already in use).
New Active Directory 2008 Forest Recovery Documentation
Posted by RZomerman in Active Directory, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 on May 27th, 2009
So you have implemented Active Directory 2008 .. I hope you did some investigation in backup/restore and offcourse you must update your disaster recovery documentation now.. to help you on your way Microsoft has released a new whitepaper on Forest Recovery for Windows 2008… read before and while fixing your AD.. (preferably before )
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=326C8A7A-DCAD-4333-9050-A6303FF3155C&displaylang=en
