CRM & ADFS woes (the connector story)
So I have been doing some ADFS 3.0 work as of late. Part of this work included getting CRM 2016 to use ADFS for authentication instead of the normal AD (IWA) approach. Getting the user side of it set up is not that hard, and there are many good sources for correct information. Now it…
ADFS3.0 MEX Monitor Fix
I recently did some work on publishing internal legacy applications using WAP and ADFS for pre-authentication. Wrapping of the production part of these components I wanted to get full visibility into how they performed over time. To do this I added in SCOM management packs for both products. As monitoring kicked in I started seeing…
SCOM Agent Quick Firewall Rules
I always try not to have to do too much repeat work, so when I have some extra time I like to make some stuff easier. This time I threw together a quick and easy way of adding the needed firewall openings to servers for SCOM Agent push installs. One little note; the commands used…
WAP & ADFS the persistent cookie conundrum
I recently did some work with WAP 2012R2 (Web Application Proxy) and ADFS 3.0 (Active Directory Federation Services) looking into how the different timeout values work in conjunction with publishing internal legacy applications to the intrawebz. This using IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) for the backend, and that meant setting up KCD (Kerberos Constrained Delegation) between…
DPM 2016 silent install
With the new DPM 2016 soon to be released there are some changes to the unattended file. The old one for DPM 2012 R2 is below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | [OPTIONS] UserName = <A user with credentials to install DPM> CompanyName = <Name of your company> ProductKey = <The 25-character DPM product key in the format xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx> # SqlAccountPassword = <The password to the DPM$ account> # StandardAgentLicenses = <No. of standard agent licenses you have purchased> # EnterpriseAgentLicenses = <No. of enterprise agent licenses you have purchased> # ProgramFiles = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager # DatabaseFiles = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\DPMDB # IntegratedInstallSource = <Location of the DPM setup files> # ---For using a remote SQL Server instance --- # YukonMachineName = <Name of the SQL Server computer> OR <SQL Cluster Name> # YukonInstanceName = <Name of the instance of SQL Server that Setup must use> # YukonMachineUserName = <User name that Setup must user> # YukonMachinePassword = <Password for the user name Setup must use> # YukonMachineDomainName = <Domain to which the SQL Server computer is attached> # ---For using a reporting SQL Server instance in case of DPMDB in SQL Cluster --- # ReportingMachineName = <Name of the SQL Server computer> # ReportingInstanceName = <Name of the instance of SQL Server that Setup must use> # ReportingMachineUserName = <User name that Setup must user> # ReportingMachinePassword = <Password for the user name Setup must use> # ReportingMachineDomainName = <Domain to which the SQL Server computer is attached> |
The changes for DPM 2016 is that all the Yukon prefixed variables now have SQL before it. This makes much more logical sense. Also there still are some…
Give me security; WordPress&MySQL!
This is a follow-up on a previous blog post of mine. I don’t like to leave the security of the solution hanging as we are exposing the MySQL database to the internet up in the cloud. There exist a possibility to use Azure internal virtual network, though for that your web site must use a…
Give me more datadisks
With lower tier VM’s in Azure you have a limit on how many data disk you can attach. As an example an A1 can only have 2 datadisks of 1 TB each attached. So if you just want to use Azure for storing a lot of data like backup you are kind of out of…
Remote App with RDWeb
Just a small post so I can remember this to the next time. If you want to get rid of the warning when using published applications with Remote App on Windows Server 2012 R2 you will need to configure the following. On the server hosting your RD stuff, start server manager and find the remote…
AzureRM WordPress migrate to Docker MySQL complete story
Wanted to document my journey to get this blog up and going in Azure. This was a experiment as much as anything. Though the result was not too shabby. First we start by creating a new Azure WordPress Web App. Press New and search for WordPress Choose the WordPress web app and accept the terms. Fill…
Creating Site to Site VPN in Azure Resource Manager
This will be a short post, just wanted to have all Powershell code needed to create a connection between a network outside Azure and your ARM resources in one place. I tried to set this up with my local TMG server, though this did not work as it did with ASM. Check this page for…