cisco anyconnect client and windows 10

June 2, 2015

We use this for work and I ran into a problem where is wouldn’t install on windows 10. This is the workaround.

  • Install the “Citrix Deterministic Network Enhancer” Link
  • Install Cisco anyconnect client
  • Enjoy

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using pscp.exe in a batch file and getting around the host key

March 19, 2013

I was trying to automate an scp file copy for work and having a hell of a time with the host key. Even though I was logged in as the same user that the script is running, when it’s run non interactive, for some reason it cannot find the host key in the registry, and fails. Some info.

  • putty and  pscp.exe keep their host keys in – [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimonTathamPuTTYSshHostKeys]
  • if you run your pscp.exe with the –batch command, you cannot input any console input
  • in order to get this to work, I had to echo a “Y” to it like this – echo y | C:_scriptspscp -sftp –v  -etc. etc

Basically, If you try to echo the Y with the –batch option, then you can’t because the –batch option makes it ignore any input. In order to make this secure, I ran it once the way I have listed above, and once the host key was stored in the right place, I removed the echo and added the batch again.

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strange .net runtime error and the fix

July 20, 2011

We had done a POC for Foglight by Quest back in March and ended up not purchasing the product because we already had SCOM in place. After the uninstall and ever since, we have had some issues.

  • errors logged whenever an app pool starts/restarts containing this description
  • .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3603 – Failed to CoCreate profiler.
  • .net health monitoring would log an app pool start but not log an app pool stop or shutdown
  • I had the suspicion that this was related to random app pool restarts during the day on one of our webservices
  • other debuggers would not attach to an app pool and work (like avicode that comes with SCOM)

    • I looked for how to fix this since March, of course I was too stubborn to call Quest, so that’s my fault. Much googling didn’t resolve much so when I finally did figure this out, I wanted to post what I found. It turns out that debugging is set in an environment variable. Seems like it’s a session variable because it’s set in the parameters of a service, so that way it runs with the service in the user context of the service. This is something I had never run across before so it seemed kinda odd.

    In the end we had to remove the reg key “Environment” (and the contents of the key) from the two locations. This key is what sets the debugger to enabled and tells it which debugger to use.

    • [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesW3SVC]
    • [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesIISADMIN]

    Once these have been deleted, all you have to do is IISRESET the server and the error is gone and random app pool restarts have ceased. As of this writing I have not tried to reinstall the SCOM AVIcode to the webservice, but I’m certain that it will work now.

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    AV exclusions

    May 25, 2011

    This comes up often and I can never find everything in one place. This is a good post with a bunch of info and links.

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    SQL query to tell if SQL logins are using Kerberos or NTLM

    March 17, 2011

    Not explanation needed here, if you know what you are looking for, this is it.

    SELECT 
    s.session_id
    , c.connect_time
    , s.login_time
    , s.login_name
    , c.protocol_type
    , c.auth_scheme
    , s.HOST_NAME
    , s.program_name
    FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions s
    JOIN sys.dm_exec_connections c
    ON s.session_id = c.session_id

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    TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 Install notes

    March 13, 2011

    Recently (about 5 minutes ago) I did an upgrade in production of our Team Foundation 2008 server to Team Foundation 2010. I had a dry run that worked well but of course on the real thing I had a couple of issues. Here are some notes.

    • TFS requires sysadmin on the new SQL server, it wants to create/drop databases like crazy
    • TFS previous to 2010 required sharepoint to be installed, with 2010 it’s just an option, you can add it later.
    • To clean up from an earlier install (failed, test run, etc.) you can run this command (see the gotcha at the end!)

      C:Program FilesMicrosoft Team Foundation Server 2010Tools>tfsconfig setup /un
      install:all

  • The steps are
    1. Install TFS 2010
    2. Configure TFS 2010 (this creates databases)
    3. Backup your old TFS databases (all of them)
    4. Restore your old TFS databases to your new sql instance
    5. Run the TFS import command from command line. It should look like this:

      C:Program FilesMicrosoft Team Foundation Server 2010Tools>Tfsconfig import /s
      qlinstance:serverinstance /collectionName:imported /confirmed

  • Once you do this, you should be good to go
  • We had an error when trying to install on production because it kept finding information from the previous one. Apparently the tsconfig /setup uninstall:all doesn’t really uninstall all! There were extended database properties left over that we had to delete manually. Until we did this, we received this error:
    • TF30046: The instance information does not match.
  • There are very useful logfiles located in:
    • C:ProgramDataMicrosoftTeam FoundationServer ConfigurationLogs
  • In order to get visual studio 2005 to connect to TFS 2010, you have to install in this order:
    1. Visual studio 2005
    2. Tfs plugin for vs 2005
    3. Vs 2005 sp1
    4. Vs 2005 vista compatibility update (run windows update)
    5. Vs 2005 TFS 2010 update
    6. Then you enter the full URL in the server name field: http://tfs2010_server:8080/tfs
    7. If it tells you that you can’t put in the “/” and such, it means you installed in the wrong order.
  • In order to get visual studio 2008 to connect to TFS 2010, you have to:
    1. Install vs 2008
    2. Install vs 2008 sp1
    3. Install vs 2008 TFS compatibility pack
    4. Enter servername as: http://tfs2010_server:8080/tfs
  • That’s all I have for now. After all the devs come in and hit this tomorrow I may have some more updates (but I hope not!).

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    MSMQ MP for SCOM–has issues..

    February 21, 2011

    This is just an example of the kind of stuff I find in the MSMQ MP for scom. Is this alert about the SIZE of the messages or the NUMBER of messages?

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    scom missing performance counters

    January 7, 2011

    I recently had to make some changes to my scom test environment server. It’s a single virtual machine with scom, sql, ssrs, the works on it. Despite what one would think, it has performed well with about 30 agents. Recently I added about that many more and it pushed up the ram to the 4gb max that I had given it. When I added more I realized I had used 2008 x32 for the OS (oops) and was not able to see the extra ram. After some research I found that I could do an upgrade from 2008 standard to enterprise, which is what I did. Afterwards, scom wouldn’t run because the SDK service would not start. This is the event log message.

    Log Name:      Operations Manager
    Source:        OpsMgr SDK Service
    Date:          1/7/2011 2:25:48 PM
    Event ID:      26380
    Task Category: None
    Level:         Error
    Keywords:      Classic
    User:          N/A
    Computer:     

    Description:
    The System Center Operations Manager SDK Service failed due to an unhandled exception. 
    The service will attempt to restart.
    Exception:

    System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess’ threw an exception. —> System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.Initialize()
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.set_RawValue(Int64 value)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounter(String categoryName, String counterName)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounters(PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager..ctor(String instanceName, PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.CreateManager()
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkPerfCounterManager..ctor()
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess..cctor()
       — End of inner exception stack trace —
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess.Initialize()
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Sdk.Service.SdkSubService.AsyncStartCallback(Object notUsed)
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack)
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)
    Event Xml:
    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
      <System>
        <Provider Name="OpsMgr SDK Service" />
        <EventID Qualifiers="49152">26380</EventID>
        <Level>2</Level>
        <Task>0</Task>
        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-01-07T19:25:48.000Z" />
        <EventRecordID>10025424</EventRecordID>
        <Channel>Operations Manager</Channel>
        <Computer>INFMGT52.accessgeneral.com</Computer>
        <Security />
      </System>
      <EventData>
        <Data>System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess’ threw an exception. —&gt; System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.Initialize()
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.set_RawValue(Int64 value)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounter(String categoryName, String counterName)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounters(PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager..ctor(String instanceName, PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.CreateManager()
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkPerfCounterManager..ctor()
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess..cctor()
       — End of inner exception stack trace —
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess.Initialize()
       at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Sdk.Service.SdkSubService.AsyncStartCallback(Object notUsed)
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack)
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)</Data>
      </EventData>
    </Event>

    After some research I found this article from Microsoft that contains instructions on how to fix this problem.

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    Dashboarding using the SCCM Dashboard solution accelerator example

    January 5, 2011

    I will turn this into a more useful blog post when I have a few minutes but for now it is just a collection of links about dashboarding using the System Center Configuration Manager Solution Accelerator. The short story is that this runs on top of Sharepoint 3.0, which is free, meaning you can run this for free. It’s not specific to SCCM so you can dashboard any sql data you want! Cool!

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff369719.aspx

    http://systemscentre.blogspot.com/search/label/Dashboard

    http://garyhay.blogspot.com/2010/07/sccm-dashboard-queries-1.html

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2010/04/08/part-1-how-microsoft-it-using-configuration-manager-dashboard.aspx

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2010/04/11/part-2-using-configuration-manager-dashboard-for-software-update-deployment-readiness-patch-tuesday-checklist.aspx

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2010/05/02/part-3-sql-queries-used-for-creating-custom-configuration-manager-dashboard-in-microsoft-it.aspx

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2010/10/09/part-4-sql-queries-for-creating-configuration-manager-client-health-and-problem-management-dashboard.aspx

    http://64.4.11.252/en-us/edge/system-center-configuration-manager-2007-dashboard-part-2-configuration.aspx?query=1

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    SCOM Windows 2008 R2 Printer MP

    December 10, 2010

    Ran across this custom MP by Kevin Holman. Nice! Thank you!

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