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Forefront UAG (TMG) Remote SQL Logging Database Size
A while ago I did a basic install of UAG and enabled both Firewall and Web Proxy logging to SQL. I configured a trunk and published an application. Now one month later I checked the size of the SQL...
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Quick Tips: October Edition #1
Tip #1 (IIS): appcmd and IIS bindings:Some more IIS (configuration) awesomeness: you can easily view the bindings for an IIS site using the following command:appcmd list site /site.name:”MySite”Now...
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UAG: Failed to run FedUtil when activating configuration
I’ve been testing an UAG setup where the trunk is either authenticated using Active Directory or Active Directory Federation Services. For this particular setup I had both configured some months ago....
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FIM: Calling FIM Automation cmdlets from within a PowerShell Activity
I’m currently setting up a FIM solution where the users should be preregistered for Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR). Their email address will be managed in a system outside of FIM, and will be...
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Pass an Array to a PowerShell Script in a TFS Build Definition
In one my current projects I had to configure a TFS deployment for my customizations I wrote for AD FS and FIM. Setting up a deployment (build) in TFS seems pretty straightforward. The most complex...
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FIM 2010 R2: Create FIM MA error
Recently I came across the following error when trying to import a FIM Synchronization Server configuration: In words: Failed to connect to the specified database. The extension operation aborted due...
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Windows 2008 R2 Certificate Authority Application Pool Crashes
Recently I had a customer where they had a Certificate Authority in a lab environment and one in a production environment. At first sight both seemed to function correctly. However SCOM (System Center...
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UAG 2010: SP2 ADFS Behavior Change
I’m currently involved in a project where we publish multiple SharePoint sites using UAG 2010. These SharePoint sites require users to be authenticated using claims. These claims are provided from an...
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UAG: You have attempted to access a restricted URL
One of the things I noticed during my latest UAG project is that users seemed to be redirect to some sort of error page. In short: if they logged on to a SharePoint site published over UAG and then had...
View ArticleIIS (Random) Kerberos Authentication Failures
Lately I assisted in troubleshooting an issue where users trying to start an App-v application where continuously prompted to enter their credentials. Entering the correct credentials did not matter....
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SharePoint: EncodeClaim: ArgumentException for claimType
I have a colleague who wrote a Custom Claim Provider for a SharePoint deployment which uses ADFS as its authentication provider. The goal of the custom claim provider was to ensure that the people...
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FIM Password Portal Customization
Due to me being creative with the FIM 2010 R2 Password Reset feature, I had to change some of the strings which are displayed during a password reset action on the password reset site. Luckily the FIM...
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SharePoint: Encoded Claim Values
One of the things which pops up quite fast when working with SharePoint and claims based authentication is the weird identifiers you find throughout SharePoint. In one of my troubleshooting sessions I...
View ArticleApp-V and User Variables within the Bubble
This post is just for me. I want to find this piece of information again whenever I might need it:The problem: we wanted to avoid creating 20 App-V packages or entries in SCCM just because there’s...
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SharePoint: Missing Server Side Dependencies: MissingFeature
In one of my projects we have a SharePoint solution which is deployed in a Dev, Test, Acceptance and Production environment. It seems that throughout the environments here and there we got some...
View ArticleUAG 2010: This Server Cannot Join The Array
Lately I had to reinstall a UAG server which is part of a two node array. The OS disk got corrupted somehow so a reinstall was necessary. When I wanted to rejoin the newly installed server to the UAG...
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SharePoint 2010: Custom Claim Provider and the People Picker
Lately we got notified of a small bug in our claim provider we deployed on a SharePoint 2010 farm. In short, when using the “regular” people picker results were being returned just fine. It allowed...
View ArticleSharePoint and IIS Bindings Fun
Lately we had to stop (and start) the SharePoint Foundation Web Application services and the Central Admin services on several servers. We noticed that the bindings that were previously active were now...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Resolving an SID to a AccountName
When trying to avoid the usage of temporary profiles (see: Setspn: Temporary Profiles and IIS Application Pool Identities) I had to resolve some SIDs (Security Identifiers) to AccountNames. Using...
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Windows 7 & Reverse Lookup DNS Registration [Update]
A while ago I wrote this post: Windows 7 & Reverse Lookup DNS Registration One of the problems with the approach was that adding the command: netsh interface ipv4 set dnsservers name="Local Area...
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