When Adding a new iscsi target and a SAN storage device, You get the following error:
Offline (The disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator).
Windows Server
Some Articles and Videos on Setting Up Windows for AD, ADFS, ADCS
Microsoft Windows
Below are some articles and video that I found to be useful to set up Windows for Active Directoiry, ADFS, ADCS and AWS.
Domain Controller/Active Directory
Enabling Federation to AWS Using Windows Active Directory, ADFS, and SAML 2.0
Setting up and Enabling Federation to AWS Using Windows Active Directory, ADFS, and SAML 2.0. This KB assumes that you have a windows server with IIS, Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services and Certificate Services Installed.
First, perform the following in your domain:
- Create two AD Groups named AWS-Production and AWS-Dev. AWS Production will have users that have administrative access and the AWS-Dev will have S3 , EC2 and RDS servies in AWS.
- Create users that will go into the accounts.
- Give the users email address (e.g., dev@myemail.com).
- Add users to the AWS-Production and AWS-Dev groups.
Installing Enterprise CA for Active Directory Federation Services
This article involves Installing Enterprise CA for Active Directory Federation Services.
Installing certificate services
Install and Configure Active Directory Federation Services Windows 2016
This article is about how to Install and Configure Active Directory Federation Services Windows 2016.
Now that we have Active Directory Install, we need to install ADFS so that we can login to the AWS console.
Go to server manager and add roles and features.
Install and Configure Active Directory on Windows 2016
This post will walk you through the setup of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) on Windows Server 2016 and configuring it to be your credentials for AWS.
Spin up a VM with Windows Server 2016.
After the install, Configure Networking.
Set up vswitch in Hyper V
In order to do private networking, ideally you would use Hyper-V virtual switches to bind an interface in each of the guest VM’s to the same logical switch. You can do so with any locally routed convention. You can configure each VM to make use of an IP in the 192.168.0.x range such as: VM1 … Read more
Unspecified Error Copy and Paste Files in Windows Server with RDP
When conned to a Window server you get the following error: Open the task manager and end the RDP Clipboard Monitor task. Then right click on start > run > rpdclip.exe. I was able to find a way that you can script this to make it easier on you moving forward. Please see the link … Read more
Remote Desktop Error after Installing Remote Desktop Service
If you install Remote Desktop Services on the server, but you do not have any CAL Licenses on the service, you will receive an error for remote connection. The Remote Desktop Service is for hosting your own RDP Service for groups of server typically, using AD. To resolve, close any RDP sessions on your computer, … Read more
Installing Microsoft CALS’s
You will need to add the Remote Desktop role first. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2833839/guidelines-for-installing-the-remote-desktop-session-host-role-service-on-a-computer-running-windows-server-2012-without-the-remote-desktop-connection-broker-role-service After doing so you can continue installing the CAL license following these steps. 1. Click on Start->Administrative Tools->Remote Desktop Services->Remote Desktop Licensing Manager 2. Click on “All Servers” and right click on the server you want to add the RDS CALs to and click … Read more