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Sunday, 21 February 2016

Factory Reset a Cisco ASA 5505

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Today I have been overhauling my home network and generally cleaning things up. The config on my Cisco ASA was ancient and it had loads of s...
Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Installing and configuring Active Directory entirely with PowerShell

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Creating a new Active Directory for a test environment is something I seem to have to do multiple times a week. I hope to never have to do ...
Thursday, 21 January 2016

Azure VHD Upload Fails “An upload is already in progress on machine HOSTNAME with process ID”

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Uploading VHD’s to an Azure Storage Account is straight forward, the following command; Add-AzureVHD -Destination https://storageaccountc...
Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Configuring Multi-Site VPN for Azure vNet's

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It is possible in Microsoft Azure to configure your vNet to terminate multiple IPsec VPN connections to enable you to create mesh-like conn...
Friday, 8 January 2016

Multi-Site VPN’s with Microsoft Azure and Hardware VPN Concentrators (Cisco ASA's)

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Although it’s possible to terminate multiple VPN (multi-site) into a single Azure vNet, there are some limitation around the VPN hardware ...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Azure PowerShell "Your Azure credentials have not been set up or have expired, please run Add-AzureAccount to set up your Azure credentials"

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Azure PowerShell throws the error " Your Azure credentials have not been set up or have expired, please run Add-AzureAccount to set up...
Tuesday, 15 December 2015

ADFS & WAP "Unable to retrieve proxy configuration data from the Federation Service. Status Code Unauthorized (401)".

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A very common problem when installing WAP servers for ADFS is the error "Unable to retrieve proxy configuration data from the Federati...
Friday, 11 December 2015

ADFS Server Farm Join Fails with "ADMIN0011: InvalidRequestFault" & “There was an error doing synchronization. Synchronization of data from the primary federation server to a secondary server did not occur”.

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I was recently working on a project with a customer to extend their ADFS server farm to Azure for a passive backup in the event of DR. ...