The BHC Blog http://www.bhcblog.com The Technical Blog of Blackhawk Consulting Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:21:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Blackberry Missing net_rim_crypto http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/30/blackberry-missing-net_rim_crypto/ http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/30/blackberry-missing-net_rim_crypto/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:21:18 +0000 Jesse http://www.bhcblog.com/?p=319 Some applications generate the error Missing net_rim_crypto when run on a Blackberry device. This can be caused because the net_rim_crypto app is wrong in the JAD file.

The JAD file is a text file that lists some of the dependencies.   If you open it, look for net_rim_crypto and try changing it to net_rim_crypto_1 and then re-install your application.  In several cases we’ve seen, this will cause the error to go away and the software to function as expected.

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]]> http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/30/blackberry-missing-net_rim_crypto/feed/ 0 Fix for: “An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers.” http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/29/fix-for-an-error-caused-a-change-in-the-current-set-of-domain-controllers/ http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/29/fix-for-an-error-caused-a-change-in-the-current-set-of-domain-controllers/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:46:30 +0000 Jesse http://www.bhcblog.com/?p=320 If you launch Exchange Management Console and get the error :

An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers. …..

This is often caused by a bug in MMC.

It can be easily fixed by going to %userprofile%\app data\roaming\microsoft\mmc and deleting the file:  “Exchange Management Console”.   After deleting the file, the error should go away.  The bug is caused because EMC apparently caches AD controller information, and does not refresh the information after a topology change in the AD environment.

 

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]]> http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/29/fix-for-an-error-caused-a-change-in-the-current-set-of-domain-controllers/feed/ 0 Fix for: LA Noire: The Launcher cannot query DirectX. Please update DirectX by installing the latest redistribution. http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/26/fix-for-la-noire-the-launcher-cannot-query-directx-please-update-directx-by-installing-the-latest-redistribution/ http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/26/fix-for-la-noire-the-launcher-cannot-query-directx-please-update-directx-by-installing-the-latest-redistribution/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:16:43 +0000 Jesse http://www.bhcblog.com/?p=312 Not company related but a solution I thought I would post since it is not well documented.  At a family gathering we purchased the game LA Noire by Rockstar Games on Steam.  After it installed it would not run.  The error below appeared:

“The Launcher cannot query DirectX. Please update DirectX by installing the latest redistribution.”

We also noticed there were errors in event viewer.

Also if you ran the launcher it would disappear and not launch.

 

The fix was to exit steam and re-run steam as administrator (right click, “run as administrator”).  After doing this, LA Noire ran with no problems.

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]]> http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/26/fix-for-la-noire-the-launcher-cannot-query-directx-please-update-directx-by-installing-the-latest-redistribution/feed/ 0 Disable Windows 8 Interface http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/22/disable-windows-8-interface/ http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/11/22/disable-windows-8-interface/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:13:47 +0000 Jesse http://www.bhcblog.com/?p=306 For those of you who have downloaded Windows 8, you may find you would prefer an interface similar to Windows 7 and other previous versions of windows.

The new interface is called Metro and below I’ll show you how to “DISABLE THE METRO INTERFACE“.

Its pretty simple really..

Just open regedit. and go to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

And change this value

RPEnabled from 1 to 0.   Once you’ve done this Metro will be disabled.

To re-enable the Metro interface.. change the value back to 1.

 

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The setting to add to the web.config right after </DRMS> and before <system.web> is:

<system.diagnostics>
<switches>
<add name=”Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services-Global” value=”4″ />
<add name=”Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services-TimeStamps” value=”1″ />
<add name=”Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services-Indents” value=”0″ />
</switches>
<trace autoflush=”false” indentsize=”4″/>
</system.diagnostics>

Afterwards don’t forget to do an IIS reset to re-read the web.config.

This can be put in ANY pipeline in rms 1.0 (certification, licensing, admin).

For RMS 2.0 follow Jason’s article :

http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmssupp/archive/2008/09/24/another-things-i-always-forget-how-to-turn-on-server-side-tracing-on-rms-v2.aspx

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This can be done.  You do not need the SCP to add the server to the cluster.   The solution is to add the registry value below to the new server:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DRMS\GICURL (stringvalue)  = http(s)://adrmsservername/_wmcs/Certification/Certification.asmx

However, the standard rules apply.  You must have Local admin rights on the SQL box etc. so that you can do the remote registry call to get the SQL Server instances…   Anywho .. hope this helps someone….

I didn’t find a lot of documentation on adding a second AD RMS server to a cluster when there is no SCP.

 

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]]> http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/10/24/how-to-add-a-server-to-an-adrms-cluster-with-no-scp/feed/ 0 Some useful ADRMS blogs http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/10/13/some-useful-adrms-blogs/ http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/10/13/some-useful-adrms-blogs/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:38:02 +0000 Jesse http://www.bhcblog.com/?p=293 Some useful blogs for RMS and ADRMS that we have found useful in the past.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rms/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmssupp/

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]]> http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/10/13/some-useful-adrms-blogs/feed/ 0 Black Screen of Death Server 2008 with Exchange http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/09/30/black-screen-of-death-server-2008-with-exchange/ http://www.bhcblog.com/2011/09/30/black-screen-of-death-server-2008-with-exchange/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:23:17 +0000 Jesse http://www.bhcblog.com/?p=291 We encountered a server this morning that only booted to a black screen with a white cursor.  It happened to be one of our customer’s corporate exchange servers and nothing seemed to help resolve the issue.  Safe mode resulted in the same behavior, as did last known good configuration.

After some very intensive troubleshooting the issues was tracked down to a service using 99% cpu utilization.   In this case it was the Exchange Search indexer service.   After disabling this service, the machine booted normally again.

How did we disable it if we couldnt boot?  ah… in this case it was a VM image and we happened to have a snapshot of the machine in the live state.   We restored the snapshot, disabled the service, rebooted the server then restored the exchange databases from backup.

 

 

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Turns out the BIOS was corrupted.. A re-flash with the latest BIOS for the board corrected the error.

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Once you’ve added some setting for gateway Exchange will function normally.

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