Registering ASP.NET for Office Web Apps Error

Here's a quick and dirty post for something that came up recently in the lab.  I was setting up an Office Web Apps server, and was getting the following error: Can't create new Office Web Apps farm: The server must be joined to a domain. Seeing this error message was a bit frustrating to say the least, because the server was indeed joined to a domain.  After a bunch of searching with Google,...

Server 2003 IAS RADIUS Server

Since I'm sure many home labbers are still rocking Server 2003, I'll put it up in hopes that someone will still find it useful. This post was originally done a number of years ago when Server 2008R2 was still new and memory was still at a premium on my virtual machine host. I was hoping to save a few...

Installing NDES on the Issuing CA

The Network Device Enrollment Service (better known as NDES) is a component of Active Directory Certificate Services.  It's based on the industry standard Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) which is an Internet Draft by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).  SCEP is designed...

Building the Root CA

In the lab, a single Windows Server running Active Directory and Active Directory Certificate Services.  But if you haven't figured out yet, I am a big fan of overkill and never do anything only to the level of minimum required.  I always like to do everything bigger and better, as there will...

Building the Domain

Edit: This post has been updated with a new walkthrough as I changed my mind on a few things.   Most notably, I'll be working with a new isolated domain rather than a child domain off of my production domain. In this post, I'll go through the steps of building an Active Directory domain.  I'll...