Tag Archives: Server 2008 R2

Bring Your Own Device – A Technical Perspective

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This is a description of how I have set up our Bring Your Device solution at my current school. It makes use of the following hardware and software:

  • Smoothwall UTM1000
  • Netgear WC7520 WiFi Controller
  • Netgear WNDAP360 and WNDAP350 Access Points
  • Netgear GSM7328S v2 L3 Switch
  • Netgear GS724TPS Smart Switch
  • Microsoft Server 2008 R2 NPS RADIUS Server
  • Microsoft Server 2008 R2 DNS and DHCP Servers

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WSUS Website Verifications are not accurate

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For quite some time now I have been seeing scores of the following errors filling up my WSUS Server’s Event Viewer;

  • 12052 – The DSS Authentication Web Service is not working.
  • 12042 – The SimpleAuth Web Service is not working.
  • 12022 – The Client Web Service is not working.
  • 12032 – The Server Synchronization Web Service is not working.
  • 12012 – The API Remoting Web Service is not working.
  • 12002 – The Reporting Web Service is not working.
  • 13042 – Self-update is not working.

However, WSUS was receiving updates from Microsoft and all of my clients were getting updates from my server, so I did not let it bother me too much! Today I was setting up monitoring for all services and roles on this server and so decided I wanted to clear these errors up for good.

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