Author Archives: feadmin

Delegate administration to partners using Azure AD B2B Collaboration

This post provides a quick introduction to the features available with Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) Collaboration – currently in Public Preview.  I’ll cover how to add someone outside your organisation to your Azure AD instance, as well  as how to assign administrative privilege over the Azure subscription to the external partner through RBAC… Read More: Delegate administration to partners using Azure AD B2B Collaboration »

Geo-Load Balancing Web Application Proxy Instances with Azure Traffic Manager

Recently I set up Web Application Proxy (WAP) instances for a customer to support remote access to several on-premises web applications.  I was looking for a cheap and effective means of ensuring the service continued to be available to clients in the event that one of the WAP instances went down.  Someone recommended using Azure Traffic Manager (ATM)… Read More: Geo-Load Balancing Web Application Proxy Instances with Azure Traffic Manager »

Powershell snippet to enable change notification on all site links

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: Powershell snippet to enable change notification on all site links »

Web Application Proxy, long URLs and the 400 error code

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: Web Application Proxy, long URLs and the 400 error code »

Best practice for Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controllers Policy

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: Best practice for Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controllers… »