HP Blade Power Supply # Status has changed to: Unknown

Posted on January 31st, 2008 in HP, Server Blades by Gil Kreslavsky

If you experience such problem .
For example
Enclosure, “1″, has detected that a power supply in bay 6 has changed from status OK to Unknown.”

Go to HP and download latest HP BladeSystem c-Class Onboard Administrator Firmware

Note:Before updating enclosure firmware be shure to update all blades ILO to resent version.
If you skip that step you may experience with disconnection problems when connecting to blades.

Delegate user to edit custom fields in user properties (phone numbers , stree etc..)

Posted on January 27th, 2008 in Active Directory, Microsoft by Gil Kreslavsky

1. Run Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. Right-click the container holding the users (or the domain name if you want to delegate all) and hit Delegate Control.
3. Welcome Screen – hit Next.
4. Users or Groups screen – click Add and select the person or group to delegate this control to. Click Next.
5. Tasks to Delegate screen – select “Create a custom task to delegate”. Click Next.
6. Active Directory Object Type screen – Select “Only the following objects in the folder:”. Check “User objects”. Click Next.
7. Permissions screen – uncheck “General” and check “Property-specific”. Check the boxes corresponding to the specific fields you would like the user or group to be able to edit. Click Next.
8. Completing screen – click Finish.

It Also can be done by script.
Just change marked with RED Fields

Const ADS_ACETYPE_ACCESS_ALLOWED_OBJECT = &H5
Const ADS_RIGHT_DS_READ_PROP = &H10
Const ADS_RIGHT_DS_WRITE_PROP = &H20
Const ADS_FLAG_OBJECT_TYPE_PRESENT = &H1
Const ADS_FLAG_INHERITED_OBJECT_TYPE_PRESENT = &H2
Const ADS_ACEFLAG_INHERIT_ACE = &H2

Set objSdUtil = GetObject(“LDAP://OU=OU Name,DC=exaple,DC=Com”)
Set objSD = objSdUtil.Get(“ntSecurityDescriptor”)
Set objDACL = objSD.DiscretionaryACL

Set objAce = CreateObject(“AccessControlEntry”)

objAce.Trustee = “DomainName.com\Example_secretary”
objAce.AceFlags = ADS_ACEFLAG_INHERIT_ACE
objAce.AceType = ADS_ACETYPE_ACCESS_ALLOWED_OBJECT
objAce.Flags = ADS_FLAG_OBJECT_TYPE_PRESENT OR ADS_FLAG_INHERITED_OBJECT_TYPE_PRESENT
objAce.ObjectType = “{77b5b886-944a-11d1-aebd-0000f80367c1}”
objACE.InheritedObjectType = “{BF967ABA-0DE6-11D0-A285-00AA003049E2}”
objAce.AccessMask = ADS_RIGHT_DS_READ_PROP OR ADS_RIGHT_DS_WRITE_PROP
objDacl.AddAce objAce

objSD.DiscretionaryAcl = objDacl

objSDUtil.Put “ntSecurityDescriptor”, Array(objSD)
objSDUtil.SetInfo

Update KB931836 fails to install

Posted on January 10th, 2008 in Microsoft, WSUS by Gil Kreslavsky


Update KB933360, makes update KB931836 to fail

Go to Start >Control Panel > Add remove programs

Mark Show updates.

Find KB933360 and press remove.



When you try to edit security permission on exchange distributed group you receive error

Posted on January 8th, 2008 in Active Directory, Excahnge 2003, Microsoft by Gil Kreslavsky

Probably the group you are trying to edit permission has an hideDLMembership ( Members are hidden from other exchange users) . In that case even administrator can’t change permissions .

To unhide the group, right click on it and select “Exchange tasks” and then “Unhide membership”

"The Integrated Remote Console is unavailable; it is already in use by a different client."

Posted on January 6th, 2008 in HP, Other, Server Blades by Gil Kreslavsky

This is Common problem in HP server blades default configuration. The default setting locks ILO and you see that message till you reset ILO.

To fix the problem go to Problematic Blade >ILO >Web administration

Remote console>Settings and change Remote Console Acquire to Enabled

Bluecoat Firefox authentication Pop-Up’s

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 in Bluecoat, Browsers, Firefox, Security by Gil Kreslavsky

To solve the problem do the following:

Type in Firefox Browser – about:config
Find value “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add bluecoat host name

For https authentication is recommended to create Virtual URL and add a different port (not 443 ) https://bluecoatHostName:444


Also check DNS resolution of bluecoat applience ( probably you will need to add it manualy to your DNS serve