Group Policy: Item-Level Targeting
KB ID 0001654 Problem Yesterday I wrote a post about Deploying a ‘Mapped’ Drive to a couple of users using Group Policy. This received a comment that was basically ‘Why not simply use Client Targeting?’ To be fair that’s a good point, I was using a Group Policy Preference and they can be specifically targeted. So here’s how to do that. Solution If you do not already have one, create a group for your...
Apply Group Policy To a Security Group
KB ID 0001653 Problem On EE this morning someone asked how to map a drive to only two users, so that wherever they logged in, they got their mapped drive. Seemed like a good Idea for a post so here you go; Solution If you do not already have one, create a group for your users. Add the users, (as appropriate). On a Domain Controller > Administrative Groups > Locate the OU that contains your users (Note: if your users are in...
Outlook: ADFS Error 0xCAA70010
KB ID 0001652 Problem While trying to connect Outlook (2016) to an Office 365 email account; We can’t connect you It looks like we can’t connect you to one of our services the moment. Please try again later, or contact your helpdesk if the issue persists. 0xCAA70010 {ADFS-URL} Solution This was happening because my ADFS server was using a ‘self-signed’ certificate (i.e. not a purchased one). This should NEVER...
DHCP Scope: Full of BAD_ADDRESS Entries
KB ID 0001651 Problem I had a client machine struggling to get an DHCP address, and when I looked in DHCP the scope it was full of this; BAD_ADDRESS This address Is Already in Use Solution A tour of Google and forums is full of posts by people with this problem, and other than, ‘Oh I looked in the logs and fixed it’ (with no mention of what log, or where this log was), or ‘Yeah I used Wireshark and located a problem...
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...