windows vcenter… important: if you are upgrading the windows version of vcenter on a server that’s been through several upgrades then i strongly recommend holding off on upgrading to vcenter 6.0 until it matures some more, or copy over the database to a clean install of windows and do the upgrade there, or alternatively move […]

example filter: (&(objectclass=user)(telephonenumber=*)) source: https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/112451/ldap-custom-filter-cucm-8x update 8/15/2015: the above filter works great. it will mark any ldap synced users without extensions as inactive (and for deletion later at night). it should proceed smoothly if your UCM service account users are properly set up as application users and if all of your ldap sync end users […]

permissions for service account: https://support.software.dell.com/password-manager/kb/27946

default credentials for orchestrator client: vcoadmin/vcoadmin source: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/list-of-vmware-default-usernames-and-passwords.html tutorials: http://www.vmwarebits.com/content/create-your-first-vcenter-orchestrator-workflow

delegate control wizard: create a custom task to delegate active directory object type – only the following objects in the folder: user objects permissions, clear “general” checkbox, check “property-specific” checkbox select read lockouttime and write lockouttime complete wizard source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/294952

logo = Set-AdfsWebTheme -TargetName custom -Logo @{path=”c:\theme\script\logo.png”} illustration = Set-AdfsWebTheme -TargetName custom -Illustration @{path=”c:\theme\illustration\illustration.png”} sign-in page description = Set-AdfsGlobalWebContent -SignInPageDescriptionText “HTML” onload.js = Set-AdfsWebTheme -TargetName custom -AdditionalFileResource @{Uri=’/adfs/portal/script/onload.js’;path=”c:\theme\script\onload.js”} auto-append @mydomain.com or prepend mydomain\: i used the following code as a great starting point https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/bfde6a72-a522-4d12-907d-3f96577ab3a0/windows-server-2012-r2-adfs-proxy-error-enter-your-user-id-in-the-format-domainuser?forum=Geneva and https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d0b2089f-e4be-494c-b488-21493f62bc58/adfs-2012-r2-forms-authentication-default-login-domain?forum=Geneva i ended up altering this portion: var lowerUserName = […]

i recently installed windows updates on a domain controller in late march 2015. the updates included KB3002657 which apparently has been causing problems with a lot of NAS devices. the issue we experienced was users getting asked for credentials when trying to access the FS7600 CIFS shares (even though they already had an active kerberos […]

problem: after successfully renaming a computer that is running sql server, the sql server instance still lists the old computer name. this is especially problematic for logins that are defined as OLD-COMPUTER-NAME\username. solution: sp_dropserver [old computer name]; GO sp_addserver [new computer name], local; GO then restart the SQL service or reboot the computer i also […]

problem: from within one of the uccx desktop apps the logs – “agent logs – state” and “agent logs – call” show as blank. also the desktop app may report “partial service”. solution: from uccx serviceability restart the cisco desktop recording and statistics service (this is not disruptive)

pre-reqs: SSL certs on exchange servers email domain “mycompany.com” added to office365 tenant and on-prem exchange’s accepted domains error: “subtask checkprereqs execution failed” after running the wizard. cause: on-prem exchange does not meet the min. update level for the office 365 tenant. in our case it was CU6. source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2988229