Adam Rafels

Adam is a senior lead consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about anything related to Microsoft and technology that’s beneficial to others. Adam currently holds seven Microsoft certifications and three CompTIA certifications.
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Jul16

Windows 2008 Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is great

One of the problems that Catapult Consultants has at times is the restrictions of outbound traffic while at a client site.  Most clients allow all outbound traffic from their locations but there are a few clients that only allow certain outbound traffic.  This has caused problems in the past with some application that use ports other than port 80 and port 443 including VPN.  One of the most u...
Posted by Adam Rafels on Thursday, 16 Jul 2009 02:15.
0 Comments | Categories: SSTP

 
Jul1

Event ID 73 and Event ID 101 in Event Viewer when migrating from Rights Management Services ( RMS ) to Active Directory Rights Management Services ( AD RMS )

I was tasked with migrating Rights Management Services ( RMS ) to Active Directory Rights Management Services ( AD RMS ) for a client.  The old RMS server was Windows 2003 with RMS installed and in production.  That same server also hosted the RMS database.  The new AD RMS server was of course Windows 2008 that would host the new database.  The first thing I wanted to do was to move the SQL dat...
Posted by Adam Rafels on Wednesday, 1 Jul 2009 01:11.
0 Comments | Categories: RMS / AD RMS

 
Jun18

Great Windows 7 feature - Set Different Default Printers for Different Locations

I've been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now and I love it, NO, I REALLY MEAN IT WHEN I SAY I LOVE IT!!! The last time I printed something was at the Catapult Austin office a few days ago.  I set my default printer to the one in my office while I was there.  Today I'm at a client's site and needed to print something.  When I tried to print a document the default printer automatically changed...
Posted by Adam Rafels on Thursday, 18 Jun 2009 01:08.
0 Comments | Categories: Windows 7