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How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates

Posted on 1st October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Depending upon the version of the sync solution that you are using to replicate directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Office 365 there are different commands that you will need to use.

We can see a listing of the DirSync versions on the TechNet wiki. And for AAD Sync, the version listings are on MSDN. This has now been superseded with another article which has version information o… Read the rest “How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates”

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AD FS 2012 R2 – An Error Occurs When BadPwdCount Not Set

Posted on 16th July 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

AD FS 2012 R2 provides an interesting feature called Extranet Lockout Protection, where the intent is to protect AD accounts from malicious lockout from external access attempts. Previous versions of AD FS had no native mechanism to protect AD from such hammering attempts. For details on the feature please review this post.

One issue that can occur when extranet lockout pro… Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 – An Error Occurs When BadPwdCount Not Set”

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How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange

Posted on 17th June 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The blog post on how to integrate Office 365 with Windows 2012 R2 AD FS raised an interesting question from a reader (Hi Eric!) on how should he request a certificate for the AD FS instance since there is no longer an IIS dependency. This means that there is no longer an IIS console to generate a certificate request with. What to do?

You could generate a certificate request, complete it and then e… Read the rest “How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange”

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Enabling AD FS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection

Posted on 5th May 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Security is an integral aspect of running modern IT operations. There is a clear understanding that we need to protect our IT assets, company data and personal identifiable information. So when we discuss a migration to Office 365, security is an inevitable topic. One aspect that we need to discuss is around account lockout, and how to protect our Active Directory accounts as part of the overal… Read the rest “Enabling AD FS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection”

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3

Posted on 30th April 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Well then, here we are in part three already! Previously we:

Installed AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365 in part 1

Installed AD FS 2012 R2 Proxy For Office 365 in Part 2

Now we want to change the Office 365 domain to be a federated domain. As discussed in part 1, this means that all of the users who authenticate using this domain will become a federated identity and the on-premises AD FS server is responsi… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3”

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 2

Posted on 28th April 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In part one we installed the AD FS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working.

Now we need to make the AD FS infrastructure available to the Internet in a secure fashion, so that Office 365 will be able to contact the AD FS proxy to authenticate user requests.

In part three we will add the AD FS infrastructure to the Office 365 configuration,

Planning And Prerequisites

Install And C

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365

Posted on 28th April 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When discussing and reviewing Office 365 with customers, I wanted to have a series of posts to illustrate the steps involved when deploying Office 365. In the burgeoning drafts folder Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) was at the top, so that got finished first!

The act of deploying and configuring AD FS 2012 R2 for Office 365 will be broken down into three separate blog posts

Install AD

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Office 2010 SP2– Do You Need To Upgrade?

Posted on 14th April 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Now that the Windows XP, Office 2003 and Exchange 2010 SP2 support expiration date has come and gone, the world is still turning, and we are not in a state of Armageddon! *

That said, focus now needs to be on Office 2010 as it is 6 months until support ends for Office 2010 SP1 on the 14th of October 2014. At that point all Office 2010 installations need to be on SP2. This is detailed in the note… Read the rest “Office 2010 SP2– Do You Need To Upgrade?”

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DirSync Error 87 – The parameter Is Incorrect

Posted on 12th April 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

DirSync in one of my O365 test labs started to complain that there were some issues with objects synching to Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD). EventID 0 was logging into the application event log, and stated: “The Management Agent 'Active Directory Connector' reported errors on execution”.

This is a an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU 7 based hybrid solution. Exchange 2013 is not present. DirSync is … Read the rest “DirSync Error 87 – The parameter Is Incorrect”

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Kicking The Tires With Office 365

Posted on 20th January 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

If you are looking for a “How To” guide to assist with getting started with Office 365 then you will want to take a look at the latest Test Lab Guides that are now available to TechNet. They were published last week and are hot off the virtual press!

The Test lab Guides are intended to be a series of documents that all leverage a common platform so you do not have to spend time creating a lab from… Read the rest “Kicking The Tires With Office 365”