Daryl Hunter - Church IT Guy

Adding Office 2010 KMS to Windows / Server KMS

I've blogged about KMS before.  The most recent was about a year ago when I upgraded our existing KMS environment to handle Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.

We've recently started working toward deploying Office 2010.  I took time this week to add the Office 2010 KMS add-on and it was pretty easy.  Here's how you do it.

First of all - grab the KMS from the Volume Licensing site.  Make note of your KMS (not MAK) key.  You'll need that.

Let's get going by starting the Office 2010 KMS Host installer.

Accept the EULA and click Continue

 

Some stuff will install... and then...

You'll get this.  Click Yes.  We want to enter our KMS key we gathered before.

Enter that KMS key and click OK

To verify the Office 2010 KMS stuff installed properly, you'll enter the following command at the Command Prompt:

c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /dlv bfe7a195-4f8f-4f0b-a622-cf13c7d16864

Hooray!  You're done!

That was easy, huh?  :)

A New Season

Hello friends.  Today's post is a little different so let me share a little heart to heart with you... you know - man-on-the-screen to blog-reader-in-the-interwebz...

For the last 8 years, I have been serving in full-time vocational ministry - both as a student in Seminary, and also as full-time technologist and staff minister at a few fun churches.

The last 2 years, I've been a full-time #remotie (remote employee) for LifeChurch.tv based out of Edmond, Oklahoma.  It's been pretty awesome.  I've been able to serve through some fun technical projects (blogged about here) and also currently lead a small team of really smart guys.  My bossman is a cool guy, and I've served alongside him as a boss, employee, volunteer, contractor and friend for the last 5-ish years.

The bible teaches in Ecclesiastes 3:1 - http://read.ly/eccl3.1.NLT - that "For everything there is a season,  a time for every activity under heaven."  I've believed that for years, and I've gone through many seasons - of childhood, of growth, and depression and rehab, and employment, and college, and grad school, and dating, and marriage, and parenthood, and most recently full-time ministry.

I am about to begin A New Season in life.

This morning I resigned my position at LifeChurch.tv and am currently working through a transitional period with my team.  The Bible also teaches in Collossians 3:23 - http://read.ly/col3.23.NLT - that we should "Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people."  I will continue to work hard, honor my committments the best I can, and finish strong and faithful until my last hour of LifeChurch.tv employment.  No, I'm not exactly sure right now when my last day will be. Our gut feel is that a September 30/October 1 transition date will be the best fit.

Now, you may be asking - what's your next season?  I don't have an official name for it yet.  The best I can come up with right now is "refining."  It's definitely going to be another growth season - a time to grow closer to my wife, and closer to my family, and serve faithfully at my local church, and grow spiritually as well.

What about a job?  That's another great question.  I have accepted a role as a Systems Engineer with The Mirazon Group here in Louisville, KY.  I have been friends with Mirazon for several years, they are very Church IT friendly, and it's a well-timed natural transition for me to move out of ministry into an organization with core values that fit mine.  I'll be focusing on core networking & communications technologies, and spinning up on some Microsoft goodies along with continued opportunities in storage and virtualization.  It's a really good thing although quite bittersweet to leave my LifeChurch.tv role.

Anyway, that's that.  Thought I'd share a little "life behind the curtain" with you.

I may take a little time to redo ye olde blog - but I have no plans to "stop" doing what I do - learning, and growing, and serving, and investing in the technical community.  I hope you'll continue to participate as well.  Have a great weekend.

Cisco IOS-fu #10 - Cisco ASA + RADIUS + Windows Server 2008 NPS

Howdy.  This is a follow-up / addition to a previous post re: Cisco gear & RADIUS & Server 2008 NPS.

I have finally finished getting all of my Cisco routers, switches, firewalls and also Dell switches into our overall RADIUS / AAA infrastructure.  I thought I'd take time to wrap up a couple loose ends on the Cisco side.

Managing Cisco ASAs Using RADIUS for AAA
Similar to my Cisco IOS-fu #7 post mentioned above, I wanted to drop a note re: how we we handle AAA for our Cisco ASA 5520 cluster and also our remote campus DualISP ASA 5505 gear (which we're looking to rollout at all campuses this year).

The Windows Server 2008 NPS config is identical to the Cisco IOS-fu #7 post.  No changes need made.  We just need to add a new client - for the ASAs to be added - and then the NPS setup is done.

On the Cisco ASA, here's what the config changes look like:

First of all, we need a local username so we can still access the gear if RADIUS goes down

#username lctvcisco password iPSVSC0nQNhXDlWu encrypted privilege 15

Next we will add the actual RADIUS group and set the radius host

#aaa-server <group name> protocol radius
#aaa-server <group name> (inside) host <ip address>
  key 013B072C5A26070B2475411C350A18192218313A6A671F1A1B

Finally we make sure that RADIUS is used for our access

#(config)aaa authentication ssh console <group name> LOCAL

That's it.  Really.  Enjoy!