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Possible causes of Authentications failures for federated users in Office 365.

Here I’m assuming that we are using ADFS, for SSO to O365 services: Below I have tried to...

Author: Abizer Date: 06/01/2015

Ask The Expert session - Azure Active Directory Your Identity Management Solution for the Cloud

Hi Folks Sharing one of my videos providing an overview of Azure Active Directory (as on April...

Author: Abizer Date: 05/11/2015

ADFS 2.0 Troubleshooting Document

Hi Mates I have been working with ADFS since the last few years and have tried to list most of the...

Author: Abizer Date: 04/27/2015

ADFS on Azure VMs

Updated 11/2014 after some new feature releases in Azure VM space: Hi folks While recently working...

Author: Abizer Date: 11/19/2013

How an incorrectly configured account lockout policy can give more pain than security.

I don't believe this..... we still see environments with Account Lockout policy set with a threshold...

Author: Abizer Date: 04/21/2013

More information about SSO experience when authenticating via ADFS

Common understanding about SSO: Which may mean user enters username/password once, and does not need...

Author: Abizer Date: 04/11/2013

Information about Email addresses assigned to a licensed user in O365

The Onmicrosoft.com email address gets stamped the time an Exchange license is assigned to the user....

Author: Abizer Date: 04/08/2013

SupportMultipleDomain switch, when managing SSO to Office 365

Use of SupportMultipleDomain switch, when managing SSO to Office 365 using ADFS When a SSO is...

Author: Abizer Date: 02/05/2013

Kerberos Error KDC_ERR_POLICY while trying to access a resource in the Trusted forest (Forest Trust)

Symptoms Forest1 = 2003dom.local Forest2 = 2008dom.local 2-way Forest Trust created between them,...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 05/18/2011

Tracing down user and computer account deletion in Active Directory

  In order to find out about user and computer account deletion, you must keep the “Account...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 05/27/2010

Netmon's view of Kerberos communication, when accessing resources across domains in the same forest.

Domain setup: Both Child1 and Child2 are in the same forest with the same parent domain R2dom.local....

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 07/31/2009

Should IIS be installed on Domain Controller

I have come across various scanarios where System Administrators have installed IIS on Domain...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 07/16/2009

Error: "The parameter is incorrect" when connecting to a server using WMI.

You test WMI connectivity remotely using WBEMTEST > Error: "The parameter is incorrect" Analysis:...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 07/15/2009

Troubleshooting the error "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation"

I have come across a few issues where I have seen the above error. Below are two scenarios of the...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 07/12/2009

Troubleshooting “RPC server is unavailable” error, reported in failing AD replication scenario.

In this scenario when are troubleshooting AD replication between 2 DCs separated by a firewall. In...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 06/11/2009

Windows 7 - Applocker

Windows AppLocker is a new feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is an alternative to the...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 06/09/2009

Preventing Unwanted/Accidental deletions and Restore deleted objects in Active Directory

Preventing Unwanted/Accidental deletions Windows 2003 Use Delegation to restrict the deletion...

Author: abizer_hazrat Date: 06/09/2009