Category: Active Directory
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Azure AD Connect – Configure the “Enable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold” wisely
Today would shed some light on the cmdlet “Enable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold” which comes with the Azure AD Connect. If you are using Azure AD Connect to synchronize your On-Premise Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Connect will never execute a batch of more than 500 objects to delete. You can check the current value by…
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Azure AD – Change from ADFS to pass-through Authentication
Since pass-through Authentication is GA and the major limitations are gone, I decided to change my Azure AD authentication against my local AD from ADFS to pass-through provided with Azure AD Connect. For those who are not that familiar with the concept of pass-through authentication, on this Microsoft Article “How it works”, you will find…
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RMS Sharing App Error 0x800704cf
Hi Reader, this is a small one: I had an issue when I tried to use the RMS Sharing app. Always when I used the Sharing application, I got the following error: 0x800704cf the network location cannot be reached —– Unfortunately I haven’t saved a Screenshot of the error Message. But I could not find…
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Azure AD Domain Services – What you can do, and what you can’t do
Since Microsoft has Released Azure AD Domain Services, many questions are coming up, and the top one of them might be: Can I join my Windows 10 Client through the internet to my Domain and receive Group Policies? No, you can’t. But besides this, there are other questions that remains to be answered, and I…
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ConfigMgr – NDES Certificate Deployment fails due to Network Device Enrollment Service failure
I was struggling a little bit within my LAB trying to get the Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) up and running again for the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP), which is I believe not that simple, but anyway. I was really unsure what I did have changed (because I changed a lot in the last…
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Windows 10 – Deploy Profile Picture to Logon Screen
In my current deployment I wanted to get our fancy pictures from Active Directory to our Windows 10 Machines where it can be used for the logon screen and other places like start menu: First, I want to let you know, how I add the Picture to my user accounts. Well this is quite simple,…
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ADFS – Install Web Application Proxy fails with 401: Unauthorized
Hi, today I faced the issue, that when I tried to install my Web Application Proxy for ADFS, it permanently fails with the Event ID 422: With Text: ‎Unable to retrieve proxy configuration data from the Federation Service. Additional Data Trust Certificate Thumbprint: 3CD8F7C4697ED510546F74C25B4FD4F8C183CE34 Status Code: Unauthorized Exception details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an…
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Active Directory – Create Printer Queue with Powershell
Today I needed to create a lot of Print Queues in a Remote Domain, which I thought it should not be that hard with all the cmdlets given from Microsoft. But with my first shots with some cmdlets and also with the usage of my preferred Search engine, I could not find a working solution…
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