RSA SecurID Error – ‘106: The Web server is busy. Please try again later’
Jan17

RSA SecurID Error – ‘106: The Web server is busy. Please try again later’

RSA SecurID Error KB ID 0000975  Problem Not the most descriptive of errors! In fact this has got nothing to do with the busyness of the web server at all. Solution : RSA SecurID Error What’s actually happening is the RSA agent on this machine (in this case a web server) cannot communicate with the RSA Authentication Manager. In my case the web server was in a DMZ, and the RSA Authentication Manager Appliance was in another DMZ....

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Azure Pass-through Authentication
Jan23

Azure Pass-through Authentication

KB ID 0001642 Problem I’ve never really taken the time to look at pass-through authentication, I set up Azure AAD sync, then I either use ADFS or I don’t. It was only when looking at removing ADFS, that I even looked at it as an option.  How does Pass-through Authentication Work? Remote client attempts to authenticate to Office 365 (Azure Active Directory). Azure queues the request and sends it to an Azure Authentication...

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VMware Converter ‘Unable to Connect to the Network Share’
Aug22

VMware Converter ‘Unable to Connect to the Network Share’

KB ID 0001583 Problem I don’t think, Ive ever run the VMware Standalone Converter, without at least one error message or popup complaining about something! Today I was trying to convert a clients old Windows Server 2003 document management server, when trying to deploy the agent this happened; Unable to connect to the network share ‘{Sever-name-or-IP} \ADMIN$’. Solution It’s a pretty descriptive error, can you...

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VMware Converter – Unable to Deploy Agent
Sep11

VMware Converter – Unable to Deploy Agent

KB ID 0001345 Problem I still think P2V conversions are cool, and I’ve been doing them since version 3! It seems though every time I try and do one with the standalone converter though I get this error; VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Unable to complete installation/uninstallation of converter agent on ‘{target}’ Solution I always spend five minutes messing with firewalls, checking remote registry services,...

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ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) Domain Migration – Part 3
May12

ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) Domain Migration – Part 3

KB ID 0001307 Problem Seems like ages since I wrote Part Two, now we are ready to actually start moving objects from one domain to another. Solution ADMT: Service Account Migration Why would you want to do this first? Well this replaces any service accounts on the OLD domain machines with migrated service accounts form the NEW domain, so when the client machines, (or servers,) are migrated they’re already using the new service...

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