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I've recently had the fun of being involved in yet another merger. Fortunately, this time I've been a little smarter about it and resigned in advance. Not only because of how stressful mergers are — there were plenty of other reasons too. One of the things mergers inevitably bring to the surface is the wonderful…
Continue readingAfter deleting some groups recently, i had the following error in AADConnect The groups i deleted were indeed licensing groups - but they were associated with our E3 licenses, which are no longer valid (we moved to e5) - and no longer show up in the portal - so, i (fairly) assumed they were good…
Continue readingRecently I had an exceedingly poor experience with my external DNS provider, Namecheap. After they had some mail issues , their 2FA emails weren’t coming through…. I could see they weren’t even hitting O365… but of course, their support refused to acknowledge this – and went down a path of (bizarrely) insistently asking for a…
Continue readingI've had various versions of AD Sync/Azure AD Connect running in my development environment over the years, and have used a number of different service accounts when testing out different configurations or new features. Needless to say, the permissions for my Sync account were probably a bit of a mess. Recently, I wanted to try…
Continue readingIn the interests of saving a bit of money, I decided to switch my ADSL service from an expensive business connection to a cheap residential connection. In Australia this also means switching from a static IP address to a dynamic IP address. With most web-based services now able to be proxied via Microsoft's Web Application…
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