For those of you who have deployed Microsoft Password Change Notification Service (PCNS) services in a large domain (or as in this case a complete forest with many domains), you will know the mission of ensuring that PCNS is installed everywhere. Sure you can use GPO or ConfigMgr to ensure the service is installed on […]
Microsoft Azure B2B (Business to Business) collaboration provides companies with many collaboration capabilities which enables any organization using Azure AD to work safely and securely with users from other organizations using Azure AD. For more information about Microsoft Azure B2B, reference the “What is Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration” page. When it comes to […]
I recently had an perfect scenario that required a bit of automation. In short, we needed to complete some weird performance monitoring across an entire Hyper-V cluster that consisted of a large number of nodes. In order to get the data into a platform to analyse and report on the data within a reasonable amount […]
Puttyq (this blog) has been a personal place to share ideas, capture workings and vent frustrations for almost 12 years, and after a long silence I have decided to bring it back to life. In 2015 i went through a change of roles and focus when I took on the challenge of becoming the security […]
One of the ways to integrate FIM/MIM into SAP is to use the Microsoft ERP Management Agent for Web Services. Unfortunately a while ago we had a project were no matter what we tried we could not get the Web Services MA to work due to various reasons. This sparked a quest on my side to explore […]
Using PowerShell to connect to SAP is not something you see a lot of on the web, thus I though I would post my experience with it. Over the past weeks I have been off the grid working had on an custom integration into SAP to facilitate FIM 2010 R2 password sync via SSPR. Due […]
Under specific circumstances, the installation of the Synchronization Engine will fail when installing AADSync with the error Unable to install the Synchronization Service. The following article provides background on the error, the cause and the resolution. Background After installing the AADSync product and running the configuration wizard the installation step “Installing Sync Service” will fail […]
The launch of the new AADSync Beta 3 has announced that the release of AADSync to RTM might be around the corner. One of the pieces of Best Practice advise that should be taken into consideration is the recommendation that the ADSync database is installed on a separate SQL server. This allows for much better […]
After all the recent activity around TrueCrypt and it’s disappearance from the web, there has been a lot of speculation on why this happened, but more importantly – what’s will replace it. The community responded by trying salvage TrueCrypt. Thomas Bruderer and Jos Doekbrijder started truecrypt.ch, with the purpose to “organize a future” for TrueCrypt. […]
Server hardening is the process of enhancing the security of a server operating system through a variety of controls and technical configuration settings which results in a more secure server operating environment. Over the past few years I have been involved in various deployments that required a wide range of security and vulnerability management controls to […]
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