had an issue with my test ADFS instance and office365, where federated logins were redirecting to the public URL for the production ADFS farm. to resolve: Get-MsolFederationProperty -DomainName [federated domain] – this displays the current federation info for ADFS & office365 Update-MsolFederatedDomain -DomainName [federated domain] – run this if the above info is outdated/incorrect ^may […]
a couple of days ago i tried to mount a pre-formatted SD card on my laptop running the latest ubuntu release. the SD card attempted to auto-mount, but then presented an error “…mount: unknown filesystem type ‘exfat’”. the solution was thankfully very simple. install the packages exfat-utils and exfat-fuse. no reboot required. source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/364270/mount-unknown-filesystem-exfat
steps: create new token signing cert on primary ADFS server by running… Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Adfs.Powershell Update-ADFSCertificate -CertificateType Token-Signing (or Token-Decrypting) (this creates a secondary certificate that should be auto-rolledover to when the primary certificate expires) check ADFS settings with the powershell cmdlet Get-ADFSProperties check value of AutoCertificateRollover property (should be true or false) to update the […]
i ran into problems with the VDP 5.1 to 5.5 upgrade. i had the 5.5 iso mounted on the appliance and the upgrade was in process. everything appeared to be going well… the upgrade mentions that it can take several hours to complete which i actually thought was an exaggeration. i left the process running […]
i was working on a brand new 2013 laptop yesterday. i spent hours (no exaggeration) on this thing. and i had my first moment where i felt old and out of touch with the current technology. most notably all the UEFI stuff. it really made me miss the antiquated BIOS. anyways, i wanted to load […]
very recently…a dell c1765 mfp was deployed and installed as a printer on a papercut secondary print server. jobs printed to this print queue were listed as 0 pages and thus not being charged the appropriate cost per page. the issue was isolated to this particular printer. unfortunately, there was no alternative driver to test […]
i encountered an oddity today for the first time. most of my experience with windows 2003 is based upon windows 2003 R2…so that’s probably why i’ve never seen this before. in the non-R2 release when you try to RDP to the local console user’s session it initiates a separate session. doesn’t seem like a big […]
for additional security, SMB signing can be enabled on windows servers. however, according to microsoft and other sources, enabling this feature can degrade file transfer performance up to 15%. so it may not be a good idea to enable it on heavily used file servers…but might as well enable it on servers that do not […]
charles recently brought this issue to my attention. we’ve had more than a handful of outlook 2013 users complain about calendaring issues and being unable to connect to exchange servers (and so on). turns out the problem is caused by having outlook 2013 and certain MS updates installed. microsoft released a fix for the issue […]
i noticed this issue nearly a month ago. after a host would be running for a couple of days and joined to vcenter the resources pane on the summary tab would look “blank” (as in cpu usage: 0mhz, memory usage: 0mb). the first time i saw it i rebooted the host and the issue went […]