Windows Power Essentials Tips & Tricks
November 3, 2017 1 Comment
This one puzzled me for several hours this week. After making some changes to the structured cabling we were alerted to an issue preventing SSLVPNs from connecting.
Anyone attempting to connect saw the progress stop at 98% received an error similar to :
Unable to establish the VPN Connection (E=98,T-981066010,M99,R10)
December 14, 2015 79 Comments
Post Updated 05/07/16
So you have completed a PCI Compliance scan, and you need to disable TLS 1.0?
You may have found the instructions here from TechNet which explain how to edit the registry to disable TLS 1.0, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0. What they don’t go onto explain is that this will break your RDP/RDP Gateway Connections.
Given that , as I understand it, the requirement to disable TLS 1.0 is being enforced from June 2016 I thought it was worth running through and sharing the process.
January 23, 2015 3 Comments
Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because your computer or device did not pass the Network Access Protection requirements set by your administrator.
Had an email from a friend today, who had an Essentials 2012 R2 Server with a problem when trying to use the Remote Desktop feature of RWA. They were presented with this warning message,
May 3, 2013 2 Comments
I recently got myself a Nokia Lumia 820, and one of the benefits of having this Windows phone, (apart from looking like the coolest kid in school) is that i get to use the very funky My Server App. This App is nothing new of course, and SBS Essentials (and lest we forget, Home Server) also had similar Apps, very useful they are too, if like me, you are completely unable to function unless you have access to your server, from everywhere. The 2012 Era App has some differences over the 2011 version, but my post today is not really about the App itself. I was just using the App as a nice way to show off about my new phone.
So, to business. I was reading a forum question about Media Streaming, and how to go about troubleshooting.
April 29, 2013 37 Comments
This is an issue that has caught me out once or twice in my testing and general messing about with Essentials over the last age, and also someone in the forum just posted a question along these lines so i thought it worth a post. I have been struggling with a bit of ‘writers block’* recently and this seemed to be something easy to get back into blogging again with.
* I do not consider myself to be a writer, merely a lazy admin who had nothing interesting to say.
February 6, 2013 11 Comments
Following on from my recent post about SSL issues, another topic of conversation is the actual SSL installation process for the RWA.
Again i have blogged on that before, and the new Essentials 2012 wizard makes the process a lot lot easier. However if you get stuck with generating a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) then you can always use IIS to do this for you.
February 1, 2013 9 Comments
I have blogged before about setting up the RWA on Essentials, we all remember that mammoth post right?
The countless hours we wasted trying to make the wizard work, troubleshooting certificates with GoDaddy, Enom, Microsoft and that’s before you worry about where your domain name is hosted. Thankfully, or should it be, mercifully, in Essentials 2012 the whole wizard process is a lot cleaner and dare i say more intuitive.
That is, however, unless you lack an understanding of what this stuff actually does and how it works.
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