AnyConnect: Enable Duo 2Factor Authentication
KB ID 0001650 Problem I was asked if I’d ever set this up the other week. Surprisingly I had not, I’d deployed Duo for other things, but not for Cisco AnyConnect. As I had some other ‘Duo’ related tasks coming up, I was deploying it on the test bench, then adding in my Cisco ASA and AnyConnect wasn’t much more work! Here’s my topology; My ASA is running version 9.1 My Duo Authentication Proxy is...
Unable to Connect to the Synchronisation Service
KB ID 0001649 Problem I’m doing some work for a client that has Azure AD Sync running, and we keep kicking each other off the server, so I thought I’d login with another account. However, when I tried to open the Synchronisation Service Manager; Unable to connect to the Synchronisation Service Some possible reasons are: 1) The service is not started. 2) Your account is not a member of the requires security group. See the...
Duo: ADSync and Enroll Users via SMS
KB ID 0001648 Problem Before you can use Duo 2FA/MFA you need to have your users enrolled. Theres a number of ways to enrol them, you can bulk email them, or manually add them. Below I’m going to Sync Duo with my Active Directory, so that if users are members of a specific AD group, they will ‘appear’ in the Duo Admin Portal. Then I’m going to enter a users mobile phone number and send them an SMS to enrol....
Duo: Migrate from LDAP to LDAPS
KB ID 0001647 Problem With the impending ‘turning off’ of cleartext LDAP queries to Windows Server, I wanted to make sure my new Duo deployments were already using LDAPS. I got LDAP deployed very quickly and easily, but making the ‘swap’ to LDAPS proved to be massively problematic. Normally I find Duo a pleasure to deploy, but their technical documentation just confused me for this and I went running up some...