UAG Direct Access IP-HTTPS fail with SAN Certificate

Lately I passed by this issue with a client trying to implement the UAG Direct Access using UCC SAN (Subject Alternative Name) Certificate. The Problem was that the Direct Access IPHTTPS URL name “da.company.com” was not the common name of the Certificate (The common name was www.company.com).  Microsoft recommends either Wildcard certificate or normal HTTPS certificate for the DA name. If you don't have other option but the SAN certificate...

Read More

The Active Directory integrated DNS zone _msdcs.domain.com was not found

Error Reported in Event Viewer or DNS Best Practices Analyzer."The Active Directory integrated DNS zone _msdcs.domain.com was not found"This error might appear in environments and domains that were already built back in the days of windows 2000 or Windows 2003. By default, before windows server 2003 SP1, there was no independent _msdcs.domain.com zone in the DNS console. When the domain was originally created under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003, there...

Read More

Troubleshooting Event ID 1058, Group Policy gpt.ini

Event ID: 1058Source: Group Policy"The Processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \\domain\sysvol\domain\policies\{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}\gpt.ini from a domain controller and was not successful."I passed by this error lately with several environments running Windows 2008 or 2008R2 Domain controllers. The key element in resolving this issue is to determine which group policy is causing...

Read More