Quite a while ago I had a customer encounter issues with their AAD Connect primary node (they had a staging server, don’t worry) however the server wasn’t actually down, but it was … [Keep Reading]
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PowerShell Credential Vault
I’ve always hated trying to store passwords for scheduled tasks and other automation in a TXT file with the standard ConvertTo-SecureString cmdlet for a couple of reasons….
Firstly, it’s not altogether that … [Keep Reading]
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]
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]
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]
PowerShell Test-Transcription
Recently I needed a way to test if transcription was running, and sadly all the articles I found with my Bing searches provided methods that don’t work. Largely due, I suspect, to … [Keep Reading]
Authentication … an adventure thru time!
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]
Office 365 Administration Inside Out – Second Edition
Reposting from Aaron Guilmette’s blog post here : https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/undocumentedfeatures/2017/11/27/office-365-administration-inside-out-2/
Hey! It’s finally here! After months of hard work (almost a year from when we started until a copy at my doorstep), we’ve … [Keep Reading]
Testing AAD Connect Write-Back permissions on an OU
When installing and configuring AAD Connect with Exchange Hybrid and any of the other special features (Group Writeback, Password Writeback, Device Writeback), it’s necessary to delegate service account permissions in Active Directory … [Keep Reading]
Using RegEx with AAD Connect (and GBL)
Somewhat recently, Microsoft released the Azure AD Premium Group-Based-Licensing (aka GBL) feature in Public Preview, and I’ve had a TON of my customers transition to using this new feature.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-licensing-group-advanced
So far … [Keep Reading]