Converting DirSync User to a Cloud user in 365

I’m not sure if anyone has run into this problem before, so I figured I would share a quick fix that I found to take care of this problem. The easiest process that I have found to accomplish this without having the user be deleted each time dirsync runs is the following:

  • On a domain controller in the environment, move
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As an Exchange and Active Directory administrator you may be asked at some point to make a new distribution group from one or more other distribution groups. Exchange 2010 and PowerShell make this a very easy task. So to get started log in to your exchange server and open your Exchange Management Console.

 

exchangeManagementshell

 

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This was a real pain and we ended up having to call Microsoft and spend several hours to resolve what seem to be a simple issue.  When running dcdiag you get an error that the NCSecDesc test failed with:
 Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn’t have     Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set  access rights for the naming context:  DC=cosgro,DC=com
Normally running adprep /rodcprep at the command line would correct… Continue reading

How to fix NCSECDESC  Failures in Active Directory. If you get the following when running DCDiag on a Windows AD Server do the following to correct.

 
Starting test: NCSecDesc
Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn’t have
Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
access rights for the naming context:
DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=local
Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn’t have
Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
access rights for the naming context:
DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=local … Continue reading

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You run DCDiag and it returns a failure that names can not be resolved.

testing server: default-first-site-name\mydomain
starting test: connectivity
the host 7397e120-1c8d-4f2d-b8cb-d829d16d949a._msdcs.mydomain.local could not be resolved to an
ip address. check the dns server, dhcp, server name, etc
although the guid dns name
(7397e120-1c8d-4f2d-b8cb-d829d16d949a._msdcs.mydomain.local) couldn’t be
resolved, the server name (myhost.mydomain.local) resolved to the ip
address (192.168.1.5) and was… Continue reading

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[Kaseya Agent Procedure] Free Active Directory Health Monitor Script

On November 16, 2012, in Scripting, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Active Directory Health Monitor Script

From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.

The Active Directory Health Monitor Agent Procedure executes DCDiag on your Windows Active Directory server and captures any failures reported. The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then… Continue reading

VMware vSphere vCenter Server 5.1 now uses a new SSO (Single Sign On) service to authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory when deploying vCenter. If you do not install this services and configure it for AD then you will not be able to use your domain accounts with vCenter 5.1  During the initial install you may get errors when installing SSO.  KB 2034374 reports that a error of  ” Error 29155 Identity source discovery… Continue reading

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How to Install Printers in Windows 7 WITHOUT Local Admin Rights

On September 10, 2012, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Microsoft made some changes to the network printing security in Windows 7 and as a result, many non-admin users are not able to install network printers with an Access Denied message.

I did some research on this today, and found a solution.  We just need to make a new GPO on the domain level for each client network that is experiencing this problem.  These are newer GPO extensions, so… Continue reading

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Kaseya Agent Procedure -> Check Active Directory for Active User Changes

On March 30, 2012, in Scripting, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

 

Agent Procedure “GetActiveADUsers” is a small script I created that grabs the list of all “active” users in all OU’s and pipes that information along with their email addresses to a file. The script then grabs file and stores that file in the GetFile Area inside Kaseya. The script is also setup… Continue reading

[Solved] NTFRS – Journal Wrap Errors detected on Domain Controller

On September 9, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

File Replication Service has detected that the replica set “DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)” is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR

Are you getting this error in your File Replication Service?

The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set “DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)” is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR.
Replica set name is : “DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)”
Replica root path is : “c:\windows\sysvol\domain”
Replica root volume is