While hammering out a script for one of my customers today, I decided that it would be a nice touch to upload a log file (that I’d handily built with this function) to their SharePoint team site.… [ Continue reading ]
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Category: Troubleshooting
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Resolved: Error: A special Rpc error occurs on server [servername]: The source data is corrupted or not properly Base64 encoded
Friday, while building a new lab to use while writing a chapter for our new Microsoft Teams book, I went through the normal process in Exchange to request a certificate and apply it. Easy peasy normally, right?… [ Continue reading ]
Configuration
Update to AAD Network Communications Test
It’s literally been a year since I’ve updated it–mainly because we haven’t made any significant endpoint changes.
I did detect some CRL endpoint updates and a few other odds and ends for Worldwide Commercial and GCC Moderate, so I’ve updated the AAD Network Communications Test tool accordingly.… [ Continue reading ]
Configuration
Unable to Install NuGet Provider
While writing my last post, I uncovered a problem on one of my lab machines:
WARNING: Unable to download from URI ‘https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409’ to ”.
WARNING: Unable to download the list of available providers.
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Finding Active Directory Duplicates Preventing Azure AD Synchronization
As you’ve possibly seen in a previous post from a few years back, I wrote a tool specifically to identify a gap in our IDFix tool (namely, the inability to identify which objects were duplicates across one or more forests).… [ Continue reading ]
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Resolving Publish-PSArtifactUtility : Failed to generate the compressed file for script ‘C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe failed to pack: error
Since we had announced the retirement of the TechNet gallery last year, I’ve been slowly moving my scripts to the PowerShell gallery. I haven’t posted any new scripts in a couple of months and wrote a new one today. … [ Continue reading ]
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Troubleshooting AADSTS7000112: Application ‘5e3ce6c0-2b1f-4285-8d4b-75ee78787346′(Microsoft Teams Web Client) is disabled.
This error falls into the “both nebulous and specific at the same time” category. Here is a list of a few things you can do to troubleshoot it.
The full text of the message looks something like this:
There are a handful of things to check.… [ Continue reading ]
Configuration
Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard: WinRM client cannot process the request
A few weeks ago, while helping a customer configure Exchange Hybrid for Teams, we ran into this interesting error:
As I’ve stated previously, interesting in the context of both technology troubleshooting and doctor’s visits is rarely something you want to hear.… [ Continue reading ]
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AAD Connect Error: Azure Service Connectivity Failed (subtitled: Verify, then trust)
This week, while helping a customer onboard to Azure AD Connect, we ran into an interesting error:
Azure Service Connectivity Failed, Unable to proceed
The on-premises synchronization service is not able to connect to Azure Active Directory.… [ Continue reading ]
Configuration
Unable to Install NuGet on Windows Server 2016 Due to TLS Error
This morning, while attempting to set up a virtual machine in my lab environment, I encountered an error while attempting to install the MSOnline module–the NuGet and PowerShellGet components were not already installed. Easy enough–the installation procedure prompts to install them anyway, so just hit yes, right?… [ Continue reading ]
Troubleshooting
Exchange Online Protection 550 5.4.1 Recipient address rejected: Access Denied. AS(201806281)
Today, I found myself working with a customer that was experiencing delivery failures to some Office 365 recipients from all external senders.
As problems go, this one definitely finds itself in the “interesting” category. … [ Continue reading ]
Configuration
Disabling Writeback for GALSync Contacts
Last week, I began working with a customer that was experiencing what appeared to be a significant amount of updates to a certain group of objects in the local Active Directory. These objects were being imported from another forest as contacts, yet found themselves being updated very frequently by the local AAD Connect instance.… [ Continue reading ]
Configuration
Update: AAD Connect Network Communications Test
A new year, a new test!
While troubleshooting a few installation and update issues, I noticed that the endpoints list was a smidgen out of date, so I’ve updated that. For this update, I attached Fiddler (http://www.telerik.com/Fiddler… [ Continue reading ]
Scripting
Removing Orphaned Mailbox Searches
An issue came up today for one of my customers–how to remove orphaned mailbox searches in Exchange Online. Apparently, they have about 300 mailboxes in this state. Oops.
So, in order to do this, you need to go through a handful of steps:
- Identify all of the Mailbox Searches.
Configuration
Cloud UPNs for AAD Connect users with Alt-ID don’t update after domain verified in tenant
A few weeks ago, I ran into an issue with a customer. Scenario:
- Customer had configured alternate-id sign in with AAD Connect (the gist is that it flows on-premises mail to cloud UPN)
- Synced identity to tenant
- Tenant did not have any verified domains
As expected, without a matching verified domain in the tenant, UPN suffixes in the tenant were actually set as @tenant.onmicrosoft.com. … [ Continue reading ]