Introduction The fine people at Cisco Meraki have recently enabled SAML SSO support to their Meraki Dashboard service. For those of you who don’t know Meraki is Cisco’s cloud managed networking solution. Basically you manage all your networking equipment from a web portal. For more information about Meraki, go here. Whenever I start using a …
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How I work with multiple identities in Google Chrome
Introduction I spend my time working with public cloud services for a large number of organizations. That means many, many different user accounts to keep track of. The tool I use most to interact with these services is the web browser. As you all know browsers try to make life easy for their users, and …
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Error 0x80070001 on Windows 10 when trying to install a new app
This is slightly off topic for me, but because I spent quite a bit of time on figuring it out and could not find this documented anywhere else, I thought I would write it up quickly. At some point I could no longer install any new apps from the Windows Store on my Surface 3 …
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Obtaining the latest setup binaries for the OneDrive Next Generation Sync Client
Microsoft is working on creating a unified OneDrive Windows sync client for both consume OneDrive and OneDrive for Business. This is very good news and you can read all about it here. But the download links on the Office support pages are not for the latest version of the Next Generation Sync client (ODNGSC). At …
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Estonian e-Residency
I just applied for e-Residency in Estonia! As an e-Resident you are issued a secure digital identity by the government of Estonia. This enables you to use services provided by the Estonian state agencies and private sector. Thing you can do: Establish a company online Estonian companies can be established, registered, and administered entirely online. …
Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard fails due to DateTime.MinValue issue
I was helping a customer set up a hybrid Exchange environment recently. When the time came to run the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard we received this error: The error given is: The UTC time represented when the offset is applied must be between year 0 and 10,000. Parameter name: offset I asked the Internet …
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Connecting to an Azure AD joined machine with an Azure AD user account over Remote Desktop
Introduction Windows 10 introduces the ability to join a computer to the cloud directory service Azure AD. This is very similar to the traditional domain join, where you join a computer to an Active Directory domain, run on-premises by one or more Domain Controllers. Both operations lets the computer operate within a common security context …
How to find the GUID of your Azure AD tenant
All Azure AD tenants are named as sub-domains of the root onmicrosoft.com. For example yourcompany.onmicrosoft.com. Some very early adopters of eg. Office 365 might also have tenant names that look like this emea.microsoftonline.com, but AFAIK all new tenants will inherit the onmicrosoft.com domain. But names are fickle, so every Azure AD tenant also has a …
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Azure AD Sync/Connect Events
Here is a table of Azure AD Sync/Connect related entries that you will find in the Application log of your sync server. Use this table to quickly create filers and find what you are looking for. This is not a complete list! [table id=1 /]
Speaking at Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NICConf) 2016
Just got a confirmation for two of my session suggestions for NIC 2016. Join me in Oslo February 3-5th 2016! Here are the sessions I will be giving: Azure AD B2B and B2C: The next generation collaboration has arrived Level: 300 Azure AD Business-2-Business and Business-2-Consumer are two new features of the global trust fabric …
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