A few months ago I had a customer reach out with an odd authentication scenario… several of their employees complained that their passwords failed to work whenever they were in church.
The … [Keep Reading]
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AADConnect
Throttling AAD Connect exports
Occasionally, it is necessary to throttle the number of exports you are writing back to a connected data source – either AD or Azure.
Perhaps you’re doing your first sync to the … [Keep Reading]
AADConnect
AAD Connect Upgrade error – Microsoft.Online.Deployment.PowerShell.PowerShell InvocationException: An error occurred while executing the ‘Get-MsolUser’ command
An interesting issue occurred tonight during the upgrade of AAD Connect from 1.1.380 to the latest version. Of course, time was of the essence, so an error immediately after the Credential prompt … [Keep Reading]
AADConnect
AAD Connect Event IDs
This is by no means a complete list, but it should get you started monitoring your AAD Connect Server…
Informational Events
AAD Connect Engine
904 – Scheduler related informational events… [Keep Reading]
Azure
SKU and Service Plan ID values
This is by no means a complete list, it’s only what I’ve been able to collect so far, however here are a list of SKU ID and Service Plan ID values. This … [Keep Reading]
AADConnect
Dealing with AAD Connect, GalSync and Hybrid writeback to Contacts
I recently had a customer ask why they’re constantly seeing writeback to contact objects in the GalSync container, which seem to come and go without rhyme or reason. Well, there’s definitely a … [Keep Reading]
AADConnect
DN value in AAD Sync AAD Connect – the NEW format
DirSync \ FIM used to use the Immutable ID value in the Azure connector space, making it somewhat straightforward to search for objects in the Azure CS using the ImmutableID (either copied … [Keep Reading]
PowerShell
Powershell, The Clipboard, and re-living the past …
One of my favorite Powershell features is the ability to export the output of pretty much anything to the clipboard using | clip
I've found that piping to clip is much easier … [Keep Reading]
Exchange Online
IMCEAEX non-delivery report
When migrating from on-prem Exchange to Office 365, it's best to treat it like any other cross-forest move and populate each object's LegacyExchangeDN value as an X500 address, otherwise you'll get NDR … [Keep Reading]
AD Attributes
msExchRemoteRecipientType
When dealing with attributes synced to O365 via FIM \ DirSync \ AAD Sync, you will frequently encounter the msExchRemoteRecipient type attribute, previously empty in on-prem Exchange (only msExchRecipientTypeDetails and msExchRecipientDisplayType had … [Keep Reading]