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092720 0625 Configuring1 240x166 - Configuring CISCO MERAKI TO AZURE Site to Site VPN IPsec tunnel IKEv1

Configuring CISCO MERAKI TO AZURE Site to Site VPN IPsec tunnel IKEv1

This document will show you how to step by step to configure Cisco Meraki to azure site to site VPN IPsec tunnel IKEv1.

If the Cisco Meraki Security appliances running firmware less than version 15.12 do not have support for IKEv2. Also, there is a bug at concurrent firmware 14.53 (confirmed by Meraki support engineer), when you build up a VPN non-Meraki peer with Azure, the all auto VPN peers will down and won’t come back on line until you reboot the security appliance. Everything will be fine after reboot it.

092720 0622 Configuring1 240x175 - Configuring CISCO MERAKI TO AZURE Site to Site VPN tunnels IPsec IKEv2

Configuring CISCO MERAKI TO AZURE Site to Site VPN tunnels IPsec IKEv2

This document will show you how to step by step to configure Cisco Meraki to azure site to site VPN tunnels IPsec IKEv2.

The Cisco Meraki Security appliances running firmware must be on firmware 15 or greater to take advantage of IKEv2, because the firmware 15.x is still beta version, you need to ask Meraki support to upgrade it for you if you need it.

042220 2255 Howtoconfig1 240x113 - How to configure Veeam Backup and replication offload backup to Azure Blob

How to configure Veeam Backup and replication offload backup to Azure Blob

Veeam released the Backup & Replication v10 on February, and with it comes over 150+ anticipated new features and enhancements. Veeam now also have support for the option “Copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created” at SOBR Repositories settings, it will create additional copy of your backups for added redundancy by having all backups copied to the capacity tier as soon as they are created on the performance tier. Let’s follow steps to configure it.

031020 1729 HowtoFixSto8 240x153 - How to Fix Storage Space Direct Virtual Disk Detached after Server Reboot

How to Fix Storage Space Direct Virtual Disk Detached after Server Reboot

Today, my customer is call me and said their VMs are disappear at Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V host after reboot, I noticed the virtual disk detached, the VMs are up and running after I re-attach the virtual disk, but the issue was not be fixed because when I try to reboot the Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V host and the virtual disk detached again.

030620 1843 HowtoInstal22 240x180 - How to Install (Upgrade) Veeam Backup and Replication V10

How to Install (Upgrade) Veeam Backup and Replication V10

Veeam released the Backup & Replication V10 on Feb 18, Veeam Backup & Replication V10 with more than 150 new features and enhancements – including modern NAS support, Multi-VM Instant Recovery and heightened ransomware protection – v10 includes data protection capabilities that increase availability, portability, and extensibility for Cloud Data Management.

030420 2308 HowtoInstal5 240x180 - How to Install Standalone Remote Desktop Gateway on the Microsoft Windows Server 2019

How to Install Standalone Remote Desktop Gateway on the Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Today, I am going to show you how to deploy simple Remote Desktop Gateway on the Microsoft Windows Server 2019 without complete Remote Desktop Services Infrastructure. It means I don’t have a farm of RD session host servers sitting behind and I don’t want to deploy Connection broker, web access and session host server (e.g. complete infrastructure).

020620 2133 FixedVeeamB1 240x180 - Fixed Veeam Backup Error failed to create Production Checkpoint

Fixed Veeam Backup Error failed to create Production Checkpoint

Our customer moved the VMs from Windows 2012 Hyper-V host server to 2019 Hyper-V host server, I tried to backup the Exchange 2010 servers via Veeam application-aware function (because we would like to use it for truncate logs) and it failed, the error message show failed to create production checkpoint.

020620 1948 HowtoInstal51 240x180 - How to Install and Configure WDS server at Windows Server 2019

How to Install and Configure WDS server at Windows Server 2019

If you would like to deploy OS to the New rack Server or PC but they have no DVD (virtual DVD), WDS (Windows Deployment Services) server is your good friend, you can easy to deployment via network (PXE).
Today, I am going to show you step by step to install and configure WDS server. you don’t need a new hardware for it, you can build WDS server as a VM of exiting Windows 10 laptop or Server.

013020 2324 FixedSSDJou1 240x180 - Fixed SSD Journal Disks Lost Communication Issues at Storage Space Direct Server

Fixed SSD Journal Disks Lost Communication Issues at Storage Space Direct Server

was doing daily checking for servers as usual. There are two SSD drives happen lost communication at Storage Space Direct Server, this is not good, because those two SSD drives are the cache of Storage Space Direct.

013020 0247 Troubleshoo1 240x180 - Troubleshooting Tips: Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response (Internal Server Error)

Troubleshooting Tips: Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response (Internal Server Error)

oday, a customer told me that one of users cannot success to sync emails at his phone, I tried to use Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer to test Exchange ActiveSync Connectivity, it has no issues with Exchange ActiveSync Autodiscover but not Exchange ActiveSync, it failed to attempt the FolderSync command on the Exchange ActiveSync session and error message is “Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response (Internal Server Error).”.

012720 1833 HowtoConfig8 240x180 - How to Configure Server Certificate Auto-enrollment

How to Configure Server Certificate Auto-enrollment

Today, I am going to show you how to configure Server Certificate Auto-enrollment via Group Policy, you need to have an Enterprise certification authority root server before you configure auto-enrollment, if you don’t know how to install Enterprise certification authority root server, you can follow my previously post and step by step to install it.