Category: 2012 R2

Modernize your 0ldSk00l VPN and legacy shares

Companies have had for ages requirements for connecting employees computers to organization network. In the past I have done these setups with Ipsecs, point-to-point tunnelings and recent year with Direct Access and Always-on vpn style. Between these it was done…

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Azure AD Connect family version 1.x deprecation On 31 August 2022.

Hi all, I just blogged about differences between AAD Connect and Cloud Sync Provisioning Agent. And today noticed on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/reference-connect-version-history that Microsoft will be deprecating the first family versions of Azure AD Connect On 31 August 2022 “You need to…

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Direct Access with Citrix Netscaler and Storefront

Yesterday customer had a problem with Direct Access and Citrix. The situation was … Direct Access worked just fine, but applications published thru XenApp didn’t open. The problem was that Citrix XenApp didn’t send Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) response…

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How to change Network Location Profile manually.

This was tricky. I had implemented several Direct Access configurations, but none of them went crazy like the newest one. Network Location Awereness (NLA) kept changing the localtion of DMZ network adapter to Domain Profile. That is not good for…

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DHCP migration from 2003 to 2012 r2

When you migrate from Server 2003 with export, you will see a Red X in address leases section. You should do the migration as follows: Open command prompt in Server 2003 and type:  netsh dhcp server export C:dhcp.txt all Open…

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Lync edge and broken replication with CMS.

Hi all, Yesterday a customer had a problem with Edge replication from Central Management Store (CMS) So installed Lync Logging Tools from   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35453 And then started OCSLogger.exe on Frontend to see what was wrong. And started initated replication with…

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Windows Server 2008/2012/2012 R2 – Automatic Reboot after Updates if users logged in

After applying updates Windows Server will want to restart in 15 minutes if you have logged on users. And there is no way to postpone it. shutdown -a wont work either.   This is because the reboot process has been…

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Sorry we’re having trouble signing you in with Office 365

Does this look familiar to You? If so you are not alone and the fix is. Delete Relaying Party Trust for Office 365: And then update federation data with this.

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647048  And it works also with ADFS…

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Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 Direct Access and Windows 7 / 8

Direct Access is an excellent vpn-solution from Microsoft. With Server 2012 R2 it got even better. There is alot of pages telling how to install it right, but in real life you have to combine some of them. So here…

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