I recently had to remove the federation between an on-prem Active Directory and an Azure Directory so that we could re-federate the on-prem Active Directory to a new Azure Directory. The process is quite easy but there doesn’t appear to be clear documentation for the
Problem You’ve recently created a new Directory in Azure but noticed that you created it in the wrong Location and since it is a new directory with no objects created, you decide to delete quickly notice that you are unable to with the following message
Problem You’ve successfully deployed ADFS in your on-prem environment and would like to use the password change portal that the server provides but you notice that navigating to https://adfs.domain.com/adfs/portal/updatepassword displays the following error: Expanding the Error details displays the following: Error details · Activity ID:
Problem You’ve successfully installed AD FS and DirSync on their respective Windows Server 2012 R2 servers and have confirmed that both are working as expected. However, you also realize that the services on the AD FS and DirSync servers no fail to start as soon
One of the most common configurations I’ve done for clients with NetScaler Appliances is to allow administration with Active Directory accounts since the nsroot account should be protected and logging in with individual user accounts can provide auditing trails. I’ve found that NetScaler documentation from
Problem You’ve deployed a new Windows Server 2012 R2 KMS server and completed configuring a KMS host key in the Volume Activation Tools wizard: You proceed to commit the changes: … but receive the following error: The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error
Problem You attempt to activate a new Windows Server 2012 R2 KMS server as an Active Directory-Based Activation: … but receive the following error: The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error and try again. Description: Access is denied. Solution The reason this error
Problem You’ve configured AAA authentication for a Cisco switch with IOS 12.2(55)SE5 to use a Microsoft NPS server as a RADIUS server to allow Active Directory account authentication but noticed that only certain users are able to login while others receive the error message: Authorization
I recently had to work with a Microsoft support engineer to troubleshoot an Active Directory Certificate Services issue and managed to write down a few commands he used during the troubleshooting process and thought I’d write a blog post so I can refer to them
I’ve recently worked a client who wanted to implement a Two Tier PKI Hierarchy Deployment with Microsoft Certificate Authority services to secure services such as RDP, iLO, VMware and Lync to check off an item on their security auditor’s list during the next visit and
