Computer Certificate Enrollment and Renewal

Key-based renewal

certreq -machine -q -enroll -cert <thumbprint> renew

 

Enrollment

Locate enterprise CA

a) find out CA name and server

certutil -config - -ping

b) find out more info about CA and CA type

certutil – dump

In the output of the command above we can find out more information about the type of the CA (enterprise/standalone, root/subordinate…. see Types of Certification Authorities)

 certutil -cainfo -config <paste the config: line output from certutil -dump> type

Web based enrollment

URL of your Certificate Services server (eg https://ca-server/certsrv).

 

via Test Lab Guide: Demonstrating Certificate Key-Based Renewal, Renew a certificate, Requesting a certificate from a local certification authority, Test Lab Guide: Demonstrating Certificate Key-Based Renewal, Certification Authority Web Enrollment Guidance

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Windows Server 2008R2 shows LUNs from SAN as offline

After adding disk to a WmWare VM in VSphere client I wanted to initialize and format it (as always) in Win 200R2 disk Management MMC snap-in… only to find out that disk id unknown and offline. A little info message says that “the disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator”. When right clicked the disk presented no context menu.

Resolution:

1.

run cmd as Administrator

2. run diskpart – use these commands

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: S7022DB0101

DISKPART> san

SAN Policy  : Offline Shared

DISKPART> san policy=onlineall

DiskPart successfully changed the SAN policy for the current operating system.

DISKPART> san

SAN Policy  : Online All

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  ——–  ————-  ——-  ——-  —  —
  Disk 0    Online          100 GB  1024 KB
  Disk 1    Offline         250 GB   250 GB
  Disk 2    Offline         100 GB   100 GB

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> attributes disk
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only  : Yes
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly

Disk attributes cleared successfully.

DISKPART> attributes disk
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

3.

Go back to Disk management snapin > menu Action > Rescan Disks

4.

Right-click disk in offline state and select Online from the context menu

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