A blog for my learnings
Following a system restart, an overnight shutdown or a system update, some Windows services don’t always come up successfully. This script runs via Windows Task Scheduler and accepts one or more service names.
If the service isn’t running, it attempts to start it – and produces a log file to capture the incident.
Continue reading “Check a Windows Service, if it’s not running, start it via batch script”Note to self: do not update Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers on a HP Proliant ML10v2, unless I really, really need to.
I’ve become complacent when throwing drivers at devices and this is a reminder how easy it is to break things. I recently added a TPM to one of my servers and one of the fixed drives is classified as removable by Windows, which means I can’t use the TPM with it. There’s at least two ways to fix this, either install Intel RST drivers and configure it through the console, or change some registry keys to force them to fixed drives.
Updated on 22/12/2017 to add two other ways of generating a CSR (see below).
In this post I’m going to look at how quick and easy (and cheap) it is to procure and install a SSL certificate on your Qlik Sense deployment. This assumes you are starting with only the self signed certificates, and that you want to use a certificate generated by a signing authority for use on an externally facing site.
A couple of things to note:
On a clean installation of Qlik Sense Enterprise, you’ll note that the domain fails SSL validation in most browsers. Why? Because the certificate is one that has been generated by your server, and not by a “trusted” certificate authority. Have a read of this page about Certificate Authorities if you’re after further detail.
Continue reading “Installing a SSL certificate to Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2”
One of the beauties of Qlik Sense Enterprise is that it can be installed on nearly any Windows machine, with very few pre-requisites.
One of the drawbacks is that you may then be tempted to load it onto a multi-purpose box, or at the very least, one with a number of core Windows roles installed (especially if you’re just testing).
This post is going to offer some quick ways of resolving port clashes, and working out what’s binding where without changing the core Qlik Sense Enterprise installation.
Continue reading “Qlik Sense and general port troubleshooting on Windows Server 2012 R2”
