Recently i was troubleshooting some integration issues between SCVMM, SPF and Windows Azure Pack (WAP) and found below articles that were really helpful and I thought to share with the everyone for benefit of similar issues. Troubleshooting Installation & Configuration of Windows Azure Pack – An Introduction http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/11/05/troubleshooting-configuration-of-windows-azure-pack.aspx Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack, SPF & VMM…
Year: 2015
ADFS and SAP Integration
In a recent project I was working on ADFS with multiple applications and customer also had SAP to be integrated with ADFS. Its quite simple, you have to just import SAP metadata into relying party trust and then map Name ID on the SAP side to the SamAccountName on the ADFS side and it works….
Exchange team blog on How big is too big
Recently Exchange team has written an excellent article on Exchange processor and memory usage and how much of these resources should be used as many of the customers are willing to use extremely big hardware for Exchange. Review the article at: Ask the Perf Guy: How big is too BIG? http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/06/19/ask-the-perf-guy-how-big-is-too-big.aspx Read my favorites blogs:…
Microsoft Exchange 2016 Initial outline
Microsoft has recently released an initial look at Exchange 2016 architecture and Exchange team has written an excellent article which provides an initial (subject to change) view of the architecture. This architecture is described at: Exchange Server 2016 Architecture http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/05/05/exchange-server-2016-architecture.aspx Read my favorites blogs: Assigning File Share permissions using Power Shell Disk Read Error when…
Microsoft Exchange team blog about Large message sizes in Office 365
Recently Microsoft Exchange team has written a blog about large messages in Office 365. I see many customers asking for bigger message size like 100MB and should review this blog. Office 365 now supports larger email messages—up to 150 MB http://blogs.office.com/2015/04/15/office-365-now-supports-larger-email-messages-up-to-150-mb/ Read my favorites blogs: Assigning File Share permissions using Power Shell Disk Read Error…
Missing SPN causing domain replication issues
I was recently working with a customer where one of their Active Directory would not replicate. They were receiving Event ID 1645 in their Event logs: Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: NTDS ReplicationEvent Category: Replication Event ID: 1645Date: 2/12/2015Time: 11:12:15 AMUser: EveryoneComputer: DC-04Description:The Directory Service received a failure while trying to perform an authenticated RPC call…
Protecting all Organizational Units (OUs) from accidental deletion
You can protect your organizational Units from accidental deletion by using Power Shell scripts to apply the protection to many organizational units at once. You can run these Power shell commands by running the Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell as Administrator and making sure that you have Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins rights. First…
Step by step guide for upgrading Active Directory from Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Sometime ago, I wrote a blog about upgrading from Windows 2003 based Active Directory to Windows 2008 R2 based Active Directory. If you are planning to upgrade now from Windows Server 2008 R2 based Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 R2 based Active Directory, the steps are the same and you can found them at…
OWA Forms Based Auth Logoff Changes in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 8 – And Good News for TMG Customers
Back at the release of Exchange Server 2013 CU1 we made some necessary changes to the way OWA logoff works. Those changes had the unfortunate side-effect of breaking the way TMG spotted a user’s attempt to logoff, thereby breaking that scenario. Well, we have some more changes in mind for OWA logoff once again, and…