Posts tagged "Windows Server"

Change SSL Certificate from 1024 bit to 2048 bit on II6

Just a short posting in this subject. I needed to renew our SSL certificate on one of our Windows Server 2003 machines. We’ve always used GoDaddy, and never had a problem renewing in the past.

This time around, GoDaddy no longer issues 1024 bit certificates. You have to replace those with a minimum of 2048.

I attempted to just replace the 1024 bit certificate with a 2048 bit replacement and found that I could not do that on II6.

Save yourself a little aggravation. You have to remove the old 1024 bit certificate and then install the new 2048 bit certificate in its place. Doesn’t take too long at all.

RWW and Least Priviliged Users

When using RWW (Remote Web Workplace) on Windows Server SBS2003, you’ll have to change a setting on the user’s worksation in local Group Policy or the user will not be allowed to log in remotely via RWW.  I found this out when changing over all our users to not having administrator privileges on their desktops. They now only have user rights. after logging onto the workstation with administrative rights, you’ll need to add the user to “Allow logon through Terminal Services” :

Woot! Server Migration

I finished our server migration yesterday. We had been running Small Business Server 2003 Standard (OEM – Grrr, don’t get me started, wasn’t my choice). This was migrated to new hardware running Small Business Server 2003 R2 Standard (Not OEM!)  I used Jeff Middleton’s “Swing Migration” fromsbsmigration.com . Well worth the money and very easy to follow.

There are a lot of settings and permissions that need to be brought over, and it is very time consuming using Microsoft‘s standard methods. Since I am the only IT resource in our agency, this was a life saver. When we migrated from Small Business Server 4.5 to Small Business Server 2003 four and half years ago, we hired a consultant to “help” and it was a 2 day marathon.