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Load Balancing AD FS Services In Azure RM

Posted on 7th December 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

As mentioned in this blog's previous posts on deploying AD FS, one option is to deploy all or part of the AD FS solution in Azure. This is very valuable if there is insufficient capacity on-premises or if you only have a single datacentre and wish to increase resiliency.

Deploying the AD FS solution or connecting it to Azure is pretty straight forward. However, if you not correctly plan the Azure… Read the rest “Load Balancing AD FS Services In Azure RM”

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Change AD FS 2012 R2 Service Account Password

Posted on 6th December 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the added features in AD FS 2012 R2 was the ability to leverage group managed service accounts (gMSA) which obviated the requirement to manually change the password associated with the service account. See Getting Started with Group Managed Service Accounts for some background on gMSA. You may also see the term sMSA which is a standalone managed service account.

Managed service accounts and … Read the rest “Change AD FS 2012 R2 Service Account Password”

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Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant

Posted on 16th November 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For those wondering what the download page is for the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Assistant, using your favourite search engine in your favourite browser is one choice.

Alternatively you can use the handy dandy shortcut URL:

https://aka.ms/SIA

This will take you to the latest version of the Sign In Assistant download page.

For reference purposes, the intent of the Sign-In Assis… Read the rest “Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant”

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Web Application Proxy Service Not Starting Due to Malformed Configuration File

Posted on 2nd November 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below Web Application Proxy (WAP) server had an unexpected issue. When the machine came back up, it had lost the configuration to allow it to communicate to the AD FS farm. This is not specifically an VM/Hyper-V/Azure issue, it is more of a WAP issue.

Fixing the issue is straight forward, though let’s take a look at the symptoms first.

WAP Server Errors

On the affected WAP server the AD FS serv… Read the rest “Web Application Proxy Service Not Starting Due to Malformed Configuration File”

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Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg

Posted on 27th October 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to answer a recent customer question regarding if there is a requirement to perform a directory sync cycle after creating a new remote mailbox enabled AD user object before it could have an Office 365 mailbox created.

They believed that the on-premises Exchange tools were directly reaching out to Exchange Online and immediately creating the necessary mailbox in the service. This is w… Read the rest “Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg”

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Reminder – Signup For Moving Tenant To Canadian Datacenter Region

Posted on 26th October 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is a quick note for Canadian customers. We are now almost at the end of the window to signup for the GoLocal move where Microsoft will move your North American tenant to the Canadian datacenter region. Note that the message states core customer data is what will be moved. The below message should be in your Office 365 Message Center:

From the above message:

Customers with data residency… Read the rest “Reminder – Signup For Moving Tenant To Canadian Datacenter Region”

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Remote PowerShell – PSSession WhoAmI

Posted on 19th September 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For those who worked with NT and Novell Netware many, many moons ago they became familiar with a handy function– who am I. Windows folks may also recall it when working with the Client and Gateway Services for Netware, and whoami.exe was also added to the NT Resource Kit. Remember the days of all the fun res kit tools? *

The whoami command does exactly what you would expect, it tells you who you … Read the rest “Remote PowerShell – PSSession WhoAmI”

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Unable Connect Exchange Remote PowerShell Using Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Posted on 25th August 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After updating Windows 10 you may be unable to connect to a remote PowerShell session. This is an issue for versions of Exchange 2010 onwards as we use remote PowerShell for administration. The same applies for Exchange Online in Office 365. Note that directly loading the Exchange PSSnapin is not supported apart from a limited number of documented scenarios, for example this is one of them. For… Read the rest “Unable Connect Exchange Remote PowerShell Using Windows 10 Anniversary Update”

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Office 365 Workshop Links–August 2016

Posted on 24th August 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a link throw-down for the items discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop that I delivered to customers in a rather tropical Winnipeg last week. It has to be said that the +30 Winnipeg is much better than the –30 Winnipeg!

I’m posting the links here since they will be available to all of the attendees, and thought that others may also find them useful/interesting.

Office 365 Public Road

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Office 365 Exchange Hybrid Deployments Busting The Autodiscover Myth

Posted on 14th July 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When configuring an Exchange Online hybrid deployment, there are many things to consider. Asides from the various networking, certificate and client discussions there is also a requirement to ensure that Autodiscover is functioning correctly. In addition to having Autodiscover correctly published to the Internet an additional wrinkle commonly pops up, which takes people down the wrong garden pat… Read the rest “Office 365 Exchange Hybrid Deployments Busting The Autodiscover Myth”