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RPC Server Unavailable trying to connect to CA

Issue -  Unable to connect to a CA using certificate authority console. Description   - Recently, we build up a new Standalone CA. We wanted to delegate  'cert issuing' task to Help desk Team but whenever we were trying to connect to this CA console using desktop CA console, we were encountering below error. Along with above issue, neither of us were able to connect to any of the services like connecting to C drive, remote registry etc.  Error  - RPC Server Unavailable error 0x6a (WIN32: 1722) Tried  - 1. Tried disabling 'windows firewall', didn't work             2.  Tried starting remote procedure call locator service, did not work.             3.   Sometimes event 13 with "Server RPC is unavailable" means “access is denied”. A possible cause of this issue is that one of the following objects is not added to the Built-in\Users group: ·         NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users ·         NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE ·         Domain U

Event Log Notification via PowerShell and Task Scheduler

Reference  -  http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/12237/Event-Log-Notification-via-PowerShell-and-Task-Scheduler.html http://sharepointjack.com/2013/powershell-to-send-an-email-when-something-happens-in-the-event-log/ http://powershell.com/cs/forums/t/6485.aspx

How to Enable Notifications for Pending Certificate Requests

Reference -   http://www.expta.com/2012/07/how-to-enable-notifications-for-pending.html http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2010/06/16/getting-event-log-contents-by-email-on-an-event-log-trigger.aspx

Clients Unable to update - "Cached cookie has expired or new PID is available"

Issue  -   Recently we started witnessing  that one of the site clients ( specifically servers) were unable to install updates.  the Client is unable to communicate to the WSUS Server.  nothing shows in software Center. It gives soap, cookie, and sync errors. We're currently using SCCM 2012 R2 Error -   windowsupdate.log: 2011-10-27 00:11:06:391  808 9b8 PT WARNING: Cached cookie has expired or new PID is i 2011-10-27 00:11:06:391  808 9b8 PT Initializing simple targeting cookie, clientId = , target group = 000-IB Produkcija, DNS name = 2011-10-27 00:11:06:391  808 9b8 PT   Server URL =  http://wsus-zga/SimpleAuthWebService/SimpleAuth.asmx 2011-10-27 00:11:06:485  808 9b8 PT WARNING: GetAuthorizationCookie failure, error = 0x8024400E, soap client error = 7, soap error code = 400, HTTP status code = 200 2011-10-27 00:11:06:485  808 9b8 PT WARNING: SOAP Fault: 0x000190 2011-10-27 00:11:06:485  808 9b8 PT WARNING:     faultstring:Fault occurred 2011-10-27 00:11:06:485  80