Invalid namespace - EventID 906 - AD Azure Sync Tool (WAAD)
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Today I came across an interesting issue where the AD Azure Sync Tool via Microsoft Online alerted me that AD Azure Sync had failed to run for some time! This was quite odd as there had been no changes to the Office 365 or AD instances that provide the identity...
Azure Active Directory (WAAD) Sync Tool - Password Sync issue and the importance of running the entire wizard
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Today I came across an interesting find with the Azure AD Sync Tool that I thought I would share. The issue was rather easy to identify but someone with an untrained eye might find it confusing or a little misleading. When I say untrained this article is really for those who...
Microsoft Partner Network - Resell and or offer free trials for Office 365
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So this article is going to help those who may be new to the Microsoft Partner Network and want to resell or even just offer free trials to Office 365. I’ve seen quite a bit of confusion around the internet especially on TechNet about how a partner gains the ability to resell and offer trials so hopefully...
TOGAF 9 - Quick guide
This is a rare blog post for me as I’m not usually one to reference how-to videos on YouTube but I have recently been watching Craig’s videos to really give me a good refresher on the methodology that is TOGAF. I invite others who may be studying towards TOGAF or need a refresher on...
Remove disabled users from AD groups
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I had an interesting request from a client today in so far they wanted AD to be cleaned out completely… Hrrm? Okay? So what do you mean by cleaned? *Insert joke about dcpromo demoting the domain*. The response I got was - “We want you to delete all the disabled AD accounts”....
Copy AD groups from one user to another
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It seems that a lot of my posts recently have been around AD group membership and I guess that makes sense as for the past few weeks I have been mostly cleaning up a lot of the mistakes by other IT professionals for my new clients. Alas it’s coming a...
Audit Active Directory quick and dirty. Find all administrators, disabled users and lastlogin (UTC)
I had the need today to do a quick audit of Active Directory and see where it was at for a client. Not just the norm like dcdiag.exe, repadmin and checking the Event Viewer to see if there were any issues but also how many administrators there are, who is disabled (if any as...
Rename all computers with a Powershell script
It’s an activity that all of us will have done numerous times in the past and will do in the future… rename a computer! But what happens when say the organisation you work for changes their workstation naming standard and want to have all the workstations renamed straight away?! Well, a...
Outlook RPC/HTTP impossible with Apache Reverse Proxy
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The Apache vs. Microsoft RPC over HTTPS war! For those who may be thinking of moving to Apache reverse proxy either because they’re looking to replace the now discontinued Microsoft TMG (refer here) or are looking to secure their internal CAS/Mailbox servers may need to think again, Outlook RPC/HTTP simply...