Network Audit and Documentation, CENTREL Solutions Blog

If you want to quickly disable the firewall on Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 this can easily be done using PowerShell with the following command Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False Why not check out our server audit tool , XIA Configuration Server ?

When you try to install the Hyper-V role on a virtual server on VMware Workstation you may receive the error "The processor does not have required virtualization capabilities". If you see this simply edit the properties of the virtual machine and enable the " Virtualize Intel VT –x/EPT or AMD V/RVI" checkbox and try again. Hyper-V Audit is coming soon to XIA Configuration Server!

We're pleased to add support for detecting server core and bare metal hypervisors to the forthcoming XIA Configuration Server version 5. Though it's been possible to document the configuration of server core for some time the new version adds the ability to identify and report against these servers more easily as well as being able to locate Hyper-V baremetal hypervisors. This functionality will be released at the same time as the ability to document Hyper-V server and virtual machine configurations later this year. http://www.centrel-solutions.com/xiaconfiguration/ For more information please email requests@centrel-solutions.com

When trying install Microsoft Network Monitor (netmon) earlier today on a test virtual machine. We intentionally run several of our test machines unpatched to ensure we pick up as many possible issues caused by outdated client machines and services. I received the following error when installing the parsers. Product: Microsoft Network Monitor: NetworkMonitor Parsers 3.4 -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action BuildProfiles, location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Network Monitor 3\, command: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Network Monitor 3\nmbuild.exe" C2EC796C-B667-479d-A205-DDD6AAD25869 I ran the command indicated and got the following error. Get procedure entry point GetExtendedTcpTable could not be located in the dynamic link library IPHLPAPI.DLL It turns out that this function requires Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 S...

When using Advanced Installer to create a signed package you receive the following error Reason: Capicom.dll used by SignTool.exe is not installed correctly on this computer. Solution You must download the Platform SDK Redistributable: CAPICOM from the following link and install it. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25281 And then install the security update for CAPICOM. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3207 This is a bug in the older versions of Caphyon Advanced Installer.

When you run the get-windowsfeature cmdlet in PowerShell on Windows Server 2012 you may see the following error get-windowsfeature : The given key was not present in the dictionary. At line:1 char:1 + get-windowsfeature + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-WindowsFeature], KeyNotFoundException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands    .GetWindowsFeatureCommand This seems to occur if there is a problem in the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ServerManager\ServicingStorage\ServerComponentCache As this is just a cache registry key you can try renaming the key to ServerComponentCache.old and then re-running the PowerShell command or refreshing the view in server manager. This recreates the key and rebuilds the server feature information. - While yo...

Anyone who has started using Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) in Windows Server 2012 will find a few disturbing changes. Firstly you'll find most of the MMC based management tools such as the remote desktop session host configuration tools have gone. After spending some time going backwards and forwards to the server roles and feature you may realise that they have moved to the pseudo-metro Server Manager console. When you run this you will see the following very unhelpful error message. "A remote desktop services deployment does not exist in the server pool." You now have to configure the Remote Desktop session host using a special way. The best documentation I've found for this is later in the Windows Server 8 Beta guide (page 25) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=29006 Why not check out our automated Remote Desktop Audit and Documentation tool