Cisco ASA: Keep VPN Always Up
Nov22

Cisco ASA: Keep VPN Always Up

VPN Always UP KB ID 0001839 Problem This was information that was passed to me by a colleague (Thanks Ajay) this week. If you have a site to site VPN tunnel after a period of inactivity the tunnel will be torn down. In most cases when required it will simply be re-established, but what if you wanted it to be permanently up? I have had situations where only the ASA side of a tunnel can bring it up (usually because of misconfiguration...

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Insufficient access rights Error Code 8344
Nov14

Insufficient access rights Error Code 8344

Error Code 8344 KB ID 0001636 Problem With Azure AD Replication, you may notice that you have the following error when you take a look at your connector status; Error: permission-issue Connected data source error code: 8344 Connected data  source error: Insufficient access rights to perform this operation. Solution: Error Code 8344 Firstly ensure that the user you are running AAD sync under, has the following permissions on the...

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PowerShell Inventory Operating Systems in Active Directory
Nov13

PowerShell Inventory Operating Systems in Active Directory

PowerShell Inventory KB ID 0001838 Problem I needed to get a list of operating systems  ‘in-use’ in my active directory this week. bear in mind this will pull information from all enables computer accounts in AD, so if you are ‘not good’ at tidying out old machines and servers you might get a lot of garbage in your output! Solution: PowerShell Inventory Use the following PowerShell. Get-ADComputer -Filter...

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