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Things to consider when enabling the AD Recycle Bin
#1 check if you have any applications that use the DirSync control and make sure you have applied the NTDS hotfix from KB979214 to Domain Controllers (if you are running Windows 2008 R2 DC’s) as this...
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Quickly undeleting users, groups or Organizational Units using the AD Recycle...
Note: if the AD Recycle Bin isn’t already enabled in your forest then you need to dig out your last system state backup and go through the restore process – enabling the ADRB does not help with...
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ADFS SSO Primers
SSO means different things to different people – make sure you’re talking about the same thing (i.e. Single Sign-On, Simple Sign-On or Same Sign-On) In order to transparently obtain a claim from ADFS...
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Integrating SAP Web Services with MIM – part1
I recently finished a successful integration project for a customer where they were moving from FIM 2010 to MIM 2016 and from the legacy SAP Management Agent to the current SAP Web Services Management...
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How to administer AzureAD, O365 and Skype for Business using PowerShell and...
Previously, support for MFA in O365/AzureAD/Skype/Sharepoint was limited to Office applications that supported it and browser-based administration of O365/Azure. This changes with version 1.1 of the...
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Installing MIM 2016 on a named SQL instance with a non-standard port
FIM 2010 and MIM 2016 have a thing in common with regards to SQL named instances; they can’t handle the truth. In this case they can’t handle that the SQL instance is running on a port other than the...
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Parsing JSON files with PowerShell on Azure VM’s using ConvertFrom-JSON
The Outdated Newtonsoft.Json.DLL Conspiracy From our special agent Json Bourne: notes from the field. Make sure you are reading a raw string: i.e. (Get-Content JsonFile.JSON -raw) | ConvertFrom-Json...
View ArticleThe Domino Effect: ‘extensible-connector-refresh-required’
Symptoms: MIM Domino MA run operations return the error message ‘extensible-connector-refresh-required’ Cause: Updating the Domino MA requires the COM interface on it to be refreshed Resolution: Open...
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Checking for EternalBlue vulnerability (WannaCry and Petya) using PowerShell
A quick PowerShell script to check your server environments for EternalBlue/WannaCry/Petya patching status: DontWannaCry.ps1
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‘The security database on the server does not have a computer account for...
Last summer, our customized lab VM’s started having issues after updating from Windows Update and applying the latest fixes. The error message received was ‘The security database on the server does not...
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