Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Windows 2003 Cert Server Issue

So my Cert Server was working for years without issue (windows 2003). I noticed yesterday that my wireless network was refusing authentication. I looked at my Cisco aironet 1000 and 1200 APs and did not see anything amiss except for the error in the log:

Interface Dot11Radio0, Deauthenticating Station ... Reason: Previous authentication no longer valid

I looked at my AD server and found the following errors:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: AutoEnrollment
Event Category: None
Event ID: 13
Date: 1/27/2009
Time: 4:16:57 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MYADServer
Description:
Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to enroll for one Domain Controller certificate (0x80070005). Access is denied.


For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

This was caused by my upgrade of my CertServ to SP2 .

The issue was resolved by adding the AD group Domain controllers to the CERTSVC_DCOM_ACCESS group.

Now my AD server is autoenrolling and receiving a Domain controller certificate from my Cert server and in turn my users are now able to authenticate and logon to my wireless network.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Windows 7

So, I am trying Windows 7 Beta. And let me first say I love it.

I installed on a Dell Latitude D620, formated the disk and did a clean install, installed office 2007, set it up on my network and was good to go. Have not had one issue, and it has been 13 days.

First the install was fast - did not time it, but unlike my vista installs, I was not tempted to time it. Second shuting down and booting up are noticeably faster - being a spur of the moment install (had a rare break in my day), I did not time the shut down and start up of my vista sp1 client, but...

No application or driver issues to date.
(and just for scientific purposes - I installed WOW and it works with out issue). So unlesss something gets messed up between the beta and release, I can not wait to upgrade my office desktops and notebooks, I think my users are going to appreciate it.

I want to play with the libraries more. I love the concept and how it works, but need it to work with Network shares which it did not appear to do.

I will try to keep posting. :-)

Try this again - Blog

Ok, so August 2008 was apparently my last blog post. So I will try to write a tiny bit more often.