Fixing msExchHideFromAddressLists attribute not syncing from on-prem Active Directory to Azure Active Directory using Azure AD Connect

Dani Kaltoft Kobeissi Azure, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Federation, Office365, On-prem AD 4 Comments

You might be experiencing something similar to this: You have set the msExchHideFromAddressList to either TRUE or FALSE using the attributes on the User Object in your on-prem Active Directory. You have also waited up to half an hour for Azure AD Connect to synchronize the setting to Azure AD. But when you log on to the Office365 administration portal, …

NemID (Nets DanID), csp.exe, Windows 8 sikkerhedskomponent

Dani Kaltoft Kobeissi Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Unless you can actually read Danish, skip this one 🙂 NÃ¥r du bestiller en digital signatur, eller fÃ¥r én udstedt af din arbejdsgiver, modtager du vejledningsmail fra Nets. I den mail stÃ¥r der, lettere omskrevet, at du kan fordrive ventetiden ved installere Nets DanIDs CSP – og det er mere sandt end det stÃ¥r skrevet! Se, hvis du har Windows 8 og …

ADFS 3.0, Event ID 364 with “MSIS5000: Authentication of the device certificate failed” after enabling Workplace Join

Dani Kaltoft Kobeissi ADFS 3.0, ADFS 3.0 Device Authentication, Federation, Office365, Windows Azure Active Directory, Workplace Join 2 Comments

First thing’s first… We have deployed an ADFS 3.0 server farm, DirSync, and Web Application Proxies to enable federation with Office365 and Windows Azure. Everything was working and users were able to logon to the cloud services. Then I decided to enable Workplace Join – from the ADFS perspective; Device Authentication. The configuration process went well, no unexplained errors – …

Mount-SPContentDatabase error during MOSS2007 to SP2010 upgrade

Dani Kaltoft Kobeissi SharePoint 2010, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Found a missing feature 56dd7fe7-a155-4283-b5e6-6147560601ee. But it will be deprecated during upgrade.
Found a missing feature 8156ee99-ddfb-47bb-8835-7ae42d40d9b9. But it will be deprecated during upgrade.
Found a missing feature 90cd055f-f21f-42c5-b3fe-bb67173583d4. But it will be deprecated during upgrade.
File [Features\ExcelServerSite\Microsoft.Office.Excel.WebUI.dwp] is referenced [1] times in the database [Database name], but is not installed on the current farm. Please install any feature/solution which contains this file.
One or more setup files are referenced in the database [Database name], but are not installed on the current farm. Please install any feature or solution which contains these files.
ERROR – Failed to run V2VFeatureActivation2UpgradeSiteAction.Upgrade for SPWeb (web app url) in SPSite (site url , the following error occured: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. at: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurableObject.CheckPermissions(SPBasePermissions permissionMask)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.ValidateSecurityOnOperation(SPOperationCode code, SPSecurableObject obj)
Exception: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
Inner Exception: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
Upgrade session failed. 36 errors and 2 warnings encountered.

32-bit ODBC System DSN on 64-bit Windows using Group Policy Client Preferences

Dani Kaltoft Kobeissi Technology 20 Comments

I searched around and found two different approaches to creating 32-bit System DSN’s on a 64-bit box. One was using powershell to load registry keys, the other used GPO Client Side Preferences to define User DSN’s which creates the 64-bit DSN and a 32-bit equivalent.

The thing is, I actually prefer using GPO’s for settings instead of scripting them. Also, I want to be able to update DSN’s without having users logging off and back on…..