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Attempting to Activate Windows Server 2019 fails with: “Windows can’t activate right now. Try activating again later. If that doesn’t work, contact your system administrator. Error code: 0x800705B4”

Problem You attempt to activate a Windows Server 2019 Standard server with a MAK key but notice that it fails with: Windows can’t activate right now. Try activating again later. If that doesn’t work, contact your system administrator. Error code: 0x800705B4 If you’re having problems

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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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Deploying a redundant Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Web Application Proxy servers on Windows Server 2019

As a follow up to my previous post demonstrating the deployment of a redundant Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Farm on Windows Server 2019: Deploying a redundant Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) farm on Windows Server 2019 https://blog.terenceluk.com/2020/04/deploying-redundant-active-directory.html This post serves to demonstrate the deployment

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