RobFuller

Ah, managed to get my site publish though ISA. NetBIOS was causing problems so disabled that and it now works! Hmmm. So basically the site just had integrated auth and ISA handles the asking of usernames, password and passcodes etc. Hopefully now I can get there webparts working externally our SharePoint portal.

I've had default domain set with no problems before.

In your setup I don't understand why the 2 site, I've had sites before with 80 & 443 both with integrated auth and basic for when that’s not available and has worked flawlessly. Was this setup MLS recommended?

We have 20 or so of these with no issues at all (Win2K3R2 server XP SP3 clients) most have printed +1000 copies.

Is your external site published though ISAserver or just a direct connection to the IIS server itself? I'm trying to publish our Eclipse.net site though ISA but just using integrated authentication. I can get a dummy html file to work but the site itself doesn't show (cannot display the webpage errors). They have some unusual authentication methods in there web.config file which made be wonder. I need to be able to do this so their Webparts for SharePoint can obtain the images they need externally as the URL path goes back to the original Eclipse server.

I would probably go with SATA and just buy as many disks as the unit can take to spread the load. But considering the costs differences I don't think a primary would really see the benefit plus you can get much high capacity disks, just backup then becomes more interesting.

ipsCA are sorting there problems out, quick phone call to them sorted out the issues I was having. Once there CA cert are distributed to Firefox and Safari things will be up and running again. Though I do think they could of handled it better!

Yes I had the email about Whois connecting issues then the day after about agreeing then nothing.....

I'm still waiting for my certs to come though!!! What the heck is the holdup my SharePoint portal is broken as ISA server is upset about expired certificates.

Win7 X64 working

VMware do an offline boot CD converter, use this and it can push the machine straight into any ESX setup you have or save them locally/network share. I've done Exchange, Linux, DC's all by this method flawlessly.

Has anyone played around with using Disk Shaddow to grab a copy of live VHD files. Just tried it on a test rig and worked really well. Pre Backup Command: diskshadow /s c:\vsbackup\DiskShaddowCreate.txt DiskShaddowCreate.txt DELETE SHADOWS ALL SET CONTEXT PERSISTENT SET METADATA c:\vsbackup\cab\Backup.cab SET VERBOSE ON BEGIN BACKUP ADD VOLUME V:\ ALIAS HyperVShaddow CREATE EXPOSE %HyperVShaddow% W: Post Backup Command: diskshadow /s c:\vsbackup\UnExposeShaddowCopy.txt UnExposeShaddowCopy.txt UNEXPOSE W: Could anyone else give me some feedback if they have used this method?

We have a 3 year rolling program for 700 machines (laptops, desktops) due to server virtualisation we have reduced the number of servers needed but there also 3 or 4 years with extended warranty. If it’s out of warranty its out of main stream use.

what backup method are you using?

Right I've been doing some investigation into this which I have found its w3wp that cannot create the files in the SysWOW64 folder. If I create the files for it, it does sort of work i.e. the page is displayed but it cannot file the certificate templates. I've given the CertSrv folder full everyone permissions and still it cannot create the files, w3wp is running as a Network Service, should this be changed to a privileged user perhaps? Anyone ever come across this before! Update: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2006/09/30/Certificate-Services-Website-generates-404-on-Windows-Server-2003-x64-_2800_64-bit-edition_2900_.aspx doesn’t help me because I need to run a legacy web application on the same server. I'm just going to move the darn certificate authority I think!!

Yes it did work internally fine, I just didn’t realise that option until now in ISA.

Afternoon, this is driving me mad and I know it’s something simple doing this. But my Certification Authority self-service website isn’t working, 404 The page cannot be found error. Now this is strange as any file I put in that root folder 'C:\Windows\System32\certsrv\" for example like test.txt doesn’t get found even though I can see it in IIS Manager. If I make another virtual directory to say "c:\temp" all in dandy, as soon as it’s moved to system32 or below it doesn’t work! What’s stopping this, its drive me mad lol. Thank you

I found the answer if it’s of help to anyone in the future; make sure the rule condition is for All Users not just Authenticated Users and make sure in the Listener, Authentication, Advanced that the require all users to authenticate isn’t ticked.

Just an update if anyone is interested, I have done a script like Phil said but slightly differently using the Lights Out Management on the SUN box. I downloaded the ipmi tool and then using a standard bat file to run on power outage events: ipmitool -H [i]IP[/i] -v -I lanplus -U root -P [i]password[/i] power soft

We run the SIMS shortcut though an AutoIT script which checks for any messages and displays them about downtime, checks if there allowed to run SIMS on that machine and check if we want SIMS disabled (for updating). Also if they’re running SIMS upgrades we know who is on and where and can throw them all out remotely.

Is this related to securing MRBS or just security of website in general?

Have you installed PHP with the LDAP plugin on your IIS server? Which version are you using 6/7?

Hi Matt, Did you find the answer to this? As this is exactly what I need to achive so we can allow parents who have forgotten there passwords to reset them though our SharePoint portal. Thanks, Rob

Hi Russ, That's exactly the setup I had but still had servername$ as the username. No matter I setup LDAP instead which is working great under IIS7 so that fine! I'm sure they can cope with logging in!! Many thanks! Rob

Afternoon, I've been playing around trying to finished off our MRBS setup, as this is installed on an IIS box I thought I would save the trouble of LDAP and use IIS to authenticate setting my config file to $auth["session"] = "nt" and $auth["type"] = "none" per the documentation. Now this does seem to work however instead of putting the username in the created by field its putting servername$ instead. Is this to be expected or should it be returning the correct username?