The new best practice when it comes to computer names seems to be setting the computers serial number as the name. This is great on vendors like Dell which uses a 5 digit Alpha-Numeric code. However, some vendors, like HP, uses a at least 10 digit Alpha-Numeric code. If you want to shorten this down a little bit in Configuration Manger or Deployment Toolkit, you can define this parameter: OSDComputerName=UKLO-#Right(“%SerialNumber%“,5)# If the computer has the serial number CZC8521WLT this will [...]
Archive for April, 2011
As I’ve mentioned before, I use MDT 2010 in my lab to deploy all my machines. I haven’t explained in detail (yet) how I have set it up, but I wanted to put a quick post on how easy it is to deploy Windows 2008 R2 Server Core using MDT. Start the Deployment Workbench and right-click in Task Sequences where you want the task. Now, the steps are pretty self-explanatory. Now PXE-boot your host and you’ll get the Server Core [...]
Categories: Windows
There are many guides out there how to request, issue and install certificates for Exchange (like this one), so I won’t go into details here. But here’s a small guide how to request, import and then export it to be able to import it to your TMG server. To create Certificate Request (CSR): New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -Path c:\certreq.csr -KeySize 2048 -SubjectName “c=SE, s=State, l=Location, o=Org, ou=IT, cn=webmail.lab.net” -DomainName webmail.lab.net, autodiscover.lab.net -PrivateKeyExportable $True Once you have sent the CSR and you have [...]
Categories: Certificate and CA, Exchange
