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Thursday, 19 July 2018

Certificate Services New Cert Req from CSR fails with "The request contains no certificate template information 0x80094801 CERTSRV_E_NO_CERT_TYPE Denied by Policy Module 0x80094801 The request does not contain a certificate template extension or the Certificate Template request attribute."

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When you try to request a new certificate from AD CS using a CRS you get the following error "The request contains no certificate te...
Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Enabling Mailbox Auditing in Office 365

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Mailbox Auditing is not enabled by default in Office 365. Mailbox Auditing is a security flag when you check the Security Score of your te...

Install Azure AD & Office 365 Powershell Modules

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How to install the latest Azure AD and Office 365 Powershell modules, please note that the Office 365 Sign In Assistant is also required on ...
Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Enabling Azure AD Self Service Password Reset/Writeback, and what happens when users exist in Office 365 before Active Directory is synced using AD Connect

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I had to test a few scenario's as I was taking over a project centred around Office 365, the only twist was that user accounts had bee...

Force removal of synced Azure AD accounts when synced domain is no longer available

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If you have Azure AD Connect syncing users from on premise Active Directory you will be unable to delete user accounts from the Office porta...
Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Backup SQL Server 2016 Databases using Powershell

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It is possible with SQL Server 2016 (possibly earlier as well) to use Powershell to backup your databases. If I ever need to do this I use t...
Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Lessons learned from migrating legacy Windows Server 2003 VM's to Azure

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Although Windows Server 2003 is long since been supported officially by Microsoft, and everyone should really be off the platform, there ar...
Monday, 22 January 2018

Azure VM's attaching data disk fails with "provisioning failed, the specified cookie value in VHD footer indicates that disk, with blob is not a supported VHD. Disk is expected to have cookie value 'conectiv. Invalid VHD"

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When you try to attach an unmanaged Azure VM disk, it fails with "Provisioning failed, the specified cookie value in VHD footer indicat...
Wednesday, 17 January 2018

How to convert Azure "unmanaged" Operating System disks to Managed Disks using Powershell

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It is very easy to convert an "unmanaged" disk to a Managed Disk inside Azure, if the source VM is standalone and not part of an A...