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Saturday, 10 October 2015

First look Azure File System Configuration

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Just announced is the Microsoft Azure File System ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-file-storage-now-generally-available/ ) wh...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

Azure VM Active Directory Move NTDS Database Location

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When extending an Active Directory to Azure, I stupidly forgot to install the Active Directory Database and Logs on to a dedicated Azure da...

Azure External Load Balancer "Failed to join virtual machine to load balanced set. The operation failed Port 443 is already in use by one of the endpoints in this deployment."

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When you try to create an external/public Azure Load Balancer for HTTPS traffic, you recieve " Failed to join virtual machine to load ...
Friday, 2 October 2015

Azure AD DirSync Unable to update this object in Azure Active Directory, because the attribute [FederatedUser.UserPrincipalName], is not valid. Update the value in your local directory services.

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You have your Active Directory configured for SSO with Office 365, therefore the DirSync (or whatever it’s called this week) tool configure...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Azure Cloud Service Connecitivity "Remote Desktop can't find the computer "name.cloudapp.net". This might mean that "name.cloudapp.net" does not belong to the specified network.

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Azure Cloud Service Connecitivity "Remote Desktop can't find the computer "name.cloudapp.net". This might mean that ...

Active Directory Ports/Protocols between Firewall's/L3/4 Boundaries

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If for whatever reason you have to have Domain Controllers separated by firewalls you will require the following ports and protocols allowed...
Saturday, 26 September 2015

Azure VM Instance DNS “Default Server” Unknown and Cannot Join the Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain

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Today I run into a strange issue related to DNS with my traditional on premise Active Directory and an Azure VM that was to be promoted to ...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

AD FS 3.0 Configuring SSO for Multiple Domains/UPN Suffixes

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Active Directory Federation Services 3.0 supports SSO for multiple domains by default. In previous versions of AD FS (2.0, and 2.1) a number...
Monday, 7 September 2015

Configure Office 365 Regional and Language Settings Globally

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If you are in the process of adopting or migrating to Office 365, you will probably be looking to automate as much of the process as possib...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Configuring Azure Site to Site VPN with Cisco ASA 9.x Firewall

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It is highly likely you will be required to create a site to site VPN from your on-premises network to the Azure public cloud. In order to ...