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Configuring a GPO to permit a MMC snap-in that is not available in the list of “Restricted/Permitted snap-ins” provided by the default Microsoft Management Console policy setting

Problem There are situations where an existing GPO is configured to restrict users from launching the MMC and the available snap-ins for non-administrative users to enhance security. To achieve this, an administrator can create a GPO with the following settings: User Configuration > Administrative Templates

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Configuring Zoom with ADFS as an iDP

I was recently asked to configure Zoom with ADFS and found certain parts of the following documentation provided by Zoom: Configuring Zoom With ADFS https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/202374287-Configuring-Zoom-With-ADFS … a bit confusing so I would like to write this post to provide a clear example of the settings

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Configuring Zoom with ADFS throws the error: “An error occurred during an attempt to read the federation metadata. Verify that the specified URL or host name is a valid federation metadata endpoint.”

Problem I was recently asked to configure Zoom with ADFS as per the following documentation: Configuring Zoom With ADFS https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/202374287-Configuring-Zoom-With-ADFS … and was not able to complete the process because the following error was displayed when importing the federation metadata: An error occurred during an

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A Microsoft Windows Network Policy Server (RADIUS) logs the System Error: “An Access-Request message was received from RADIUS client x.x.x.x with a Message-Authenticator attribute that is not valid.”

Problem You notice that wireless clients authenticating with a wireless controller that uses a Microsoft Windows Network Policy server fails and the following error is logged: Log Name: System Source: NPS Event ID: 18 Level: Error An Access-Request message was received from RADIUS client 172.23.192.16

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Attempting to execute New-CsOnlineSession returns: “The remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway.”

Problem Attempting to use New-CsOnlineSession to create a persistent connection to Microsoft Skype for Business Online for Microsoft Teams management fails with the following error: PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $Session = New-CsOnlineSession -UserName tluk@contoso.com Get-CsOnlinePowerShellEndpoint : The remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway. At C:Program

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