Bit of a crazy issue when deploying a new Ruckus wireless network – in first suspecting an issue with the controller software or perhaps some kind of access control list blocking traffic it turns out that the default Windows Firewall rule for allowing NPS traffic is broken in some fashion. Having tried this (and it working fine) on Windows Server… Read more
Category: Software
This section looks at what is new in the world of software (Operating Systems included) and how to take best advantage of what is out there.
Ruckus SmartZone – check that an Access Point has received the latest configuration
While iterating through an issue with our Ruckus SmartZone (with Ruckus R510 Access Points) controllers I was looking for a way to see when the Access Points had applied the new configuration; lone behold it’s quite easily done through both the CLI and the GUI. Anyone who has used the new SmartZone controllers will know all too well that’s it’s… Read more
uniFLOW Server Service (MomSvc) will not start
For a little while now we’ve had issues with the uniFLOW Server service (version 5.3) not starting in a timely fashion (2hrs+). After a harrowing tale of working with their support going in circles looking at issues with SQL Server and suchlike we worked out that the issue seemed to be caused by stale files at ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\NT-ware… Read more
New Ruckus (R510 on SmartZone) WAPs will not complete provisioning
While provisioning some new Ruckus R510 WAPs onto our SmartZone 100 (5.0.0.0.675) we’ve had a number of cases where the WAPs will reboot for their firmware update but will not proceed beyond that point. In particular the PWR and CTL lights stay lit but the radio lights do not come on at all. Looking in Access Points > Affected WAP… Read more
ICTF Conference 2018 – Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Stores with Smart Cards and YubiKeys
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the Oxford ICTF Conference on Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Stores with Smart Cards and YubiKeys, the video recording is online now here – https://youtu.be/WGtCxS2YFNA and the presentation can be downloaded through the link below. A special shout out goes to the Yubico press office for providing a set of YubiKey 4s, YubiKey NEOs and… Read more
Set the default new file for VS Code to PowerShell (or something else!)
Having recently changed from using PowerShell ISE to VS Code I’m still discovering all the super awesome new features of it (be sure to get a copy of the Keyboard shortcuts from this page – https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings). To get started I’ve changed the default new file language to PowerShell (not that you can’t change it to anything else though!). To do this… Read more
RDS on Server 2016, Failed: Unable to install the role services.
In putting together a small RDS (Session Based) environment on Server 2016 today today I kept running across the error message below during the installation. Failed: Unable to install the role services. After much back and forth between forums and event viewer it turns out our default policy to disable TLS 1.0 on servers was the issue. Enabling TLS 1.0… Read more
College IT Conference 2018 – Deploying and Managing Microsoft Services with PowerShell on Windows Server Core
Thanks to the organising committee of the (Oxford and Cambridge) College IT Conference 2018 held at the RAF Museum (Hendon) for the invite to talk about PowerShell and Server Core! As promised the video from the presentation is now up on YouTube; in addition the slides as PowerPoint and PDF can be seen below. <span class=”mce_SELRES_start” style=”width: 0px; line-height: 0;… Read more
IT Open Day at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford
With thanks to the 50 staff from across the University for attending please see below the links to the videos and PowerPoints of the day! Direct link to Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRxbdlgJzwyjAf820T0u4GpP0E01a9LEX&v=u-GVJ_0VuRM Slides as PowerPoint Slides as PDF Stay tuned over the coming days for the scripts that are mentioned through the video which will be linked to from this post.
Troubleshooting Slow Group Policy with GPRESULT
One of the often forgotten about features of gpresult is that it can output reports as HTML format (in a similar format to Group Policy Modelling) as well as to the command line – simply use the /h switch followed by a path. This includes much more useful data including how long it took to apply various aspects of the… Read more