Qasim Zaidi has an old but really good blog entry on enabling change notification for Active Directory site links. For a long time now I’ve encouraged my customers (those with decent bandwidth between sites) to enable change notifications on site links rather than wait the 15 minutes (minimum) for replication between sites. Qasim’s blog references a Powershell… Read More »
The other day one of my customers was testing remote access to a web application via the Web Application Proxy (WAP). Everything seemed to working except some reports. These generated “HTTP Error 400. The request URL is invalid”. Given that the reports worked well inside the corporate network it pointed to an issue with the… Read More »
I recently helped a customer to set up a Web Application Proxy (WAP) service to do pre-authentication to a SAP CRM system. Within the network everything was working well via ADFS and authentication was just fine. Coming through the WAP however I got a 404 error. The SAP CRM debug log showed a difference in… Read More »
Here are two ways to find the GUID (also referred to as the TenantID) associated with your Azure Active Directory (AAD) instance. 1. Embedded in the URL in the Azure Portal Log into the Azure Portal. Select Active Directory from the left hand pane. Click on the Active Directory instance you are interested in (you… Read More »
I’m sometimes asked what the best practice is surrounding the Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controllers Policy. Microsoft has some good guidance on this topic, but it’s not always clearly and consistently stated. Here’s a quick Q&A that might help. Q. Is it ok to make changes to the DDP and DDCP GPOs,… Read More »
You know you’re getting old when you come across a Usenet post you wrote almost 20 years ago. I came across this little memento while Googling for a much more recent item. Given the vintage of the post, I must have been referring to Exchange 4.0. Exchange has come a long way since then, although… Read More »
Over the weekend I opened up my laptop to knuckle down to my chapter reviews for the upcoming update to the excellent Inside Office 365 for Exchange Professionals. If you don’t already have a copy I strongly recommend you make the investments. The E-book is detailed, well researched and written by those who really know… Read More »
Like that hipster beard you grew last summer, all good things must eventually come to an end. You will likely be aware that the end of extended support for Windows Server 2003 finishes on July 14th 2015. If you don’t know whether you still have 2003 boxes lurking in the dark recesses of your AD… Read More »
Unfortunately Active Directory doesn’t yet provide dynamic security groups in the way that, for example, Exchange provides dynamic distribution groups. Sometimes it is useful to maintain a group’s membership based on a specific attribute, or set of attributes. Here’s a quick Powershell example that shows how to maintain the membership based on the presence of… Read More »
You now have the ability to provide product feature requests and changes relating to Windows Server that go direct to the Product Group. Not only that, but you can build a base of voter support to drive your suggestions across the line. windowsserver.uservoice.com I really like this concept as it removes the difficulties associated with getting your… Read More »