How to Configure ADFS Web Application Proxy for ADFS This post will cover the steps needed to configure the ADFS Web Application proxy. What is an ADFS Web Application Proxy? WAP provides reverse proxy functionality for web applications in the corporate network which allows users on most devices to access internal web applications from external…
Configure ADFS for Office 365 Requirements: External DNS records for example: fs.o365cloudlab.co.za Internal DNS records for example: fs.thatcloud.com Valid SSL Certificate Service Account with Domain Admin rights More about the requirement can be found here at the Microsoft blog. To get started we need to install the ADSF roles and features. Run Windows PowerShell as…
Install the Azure AD Connect Tool To allow on-premises AD users to login to cloud services like Office 365, we need to configure the Azure AD Connect Tool. For the purpose of this post, the ADSync Tool will be installed on the ADFS server that I have running in my environment. To start the process…
Installing Exchange 2016 with Exchange 2010 Co-Existing In this Post, I will look at Installing Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016 co-existing with Exchange 2010. Exchange 2016 can only co-exist if the following requirements is met. Exchange 2016 consist of only two major Roles which is the Mailbox and Edge Transport Role. The Mailbox Server…
Error creating new Mailbox Database Exchange 2010 When you try and create a new Mailbox Database, you receive the following Error: How do we resolve this error, to start we need to look at our current AD Server settings in Exchange and that can be checked using the following cmdlet. Get-ADServerSettings As we can see…
Create Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) In this post, I will go through the process of creating a DAG in Exchange 2010 SP3. This post will cover the creation of the DAG using Exchange Management Shell. Like any other service the DAG has some pre-requisites that needs to be met. Firstly, let’s go ahead…
How to Transfer FSMO Roles In this quick and short but powerful post, I will look how to transfer FSMO roles from one server to another. I will be doing this using CMD as well as PowerShell. To get start CMD needs to be run as Administrator and the following cmdlet can be used. Ntdsutil.exe…
How to find FSMO Roles Holder Active Directory In this post, I will look at two ways you can find out which Domain Controller holds the FSMO Roles. The first option is to use CMD and run it as Administrator, then run the following cmdlet. NETDOM /Query FSMO Now let’s go ahead and get the…
Create GPO to Enable RDP on Servers and Create new GPO Link using PowerShell In this pot, I will look at a basic Group Policy configuration to enable Remote Desktop on servers in a particular Organizational Unit. I will also showcase how to link a GPO to a different OU using Windows PowerShell. To get…
HOW TO: Add UPN Suffixes to a Forest This article describes how to add UPN suffixes to a forest. Adding these suffixes gives you the ability to use a friendly user-logon name that does not match the domain’s or parent domains’ naming structure. “You can use Active Directory Domains and Trusts to add user…
How to Find Domain Controllers with Windows Powershell. Get-ADDomainController Gets one or more Active Directory domain controllers based on discoverable services criteria, search parameters or by providing a domain controller identifier, such as the NetBIOS name. In this post I will showcase how to get all the below listed information using Windows PowerShell….
Insufficient access rights to perform the operation, when executing cmdlet Enable-RemoteMailbox. Use the Enable-RemoteMailbox cmdlet to create a mailbox in the cloud-based service for an existing user in the on-premises Active Directory. During an installation and configuration of Exchange 2016 with Hybrid deployment, I come across the below Error message when running the cmdlet “Enable-RemoteMailbox“….