Changing the Primary AD FS server in a farm

Posted on Updated on by Xander BikbergenCategories:Active Directory, PowerShellScript

The need to change which server is the primary server in an AD FS farm only exists in an AD FS environment which is configured to use a Windows Internal Database to store the configuration. If the AD FS farm is configured to use a SQL database is used then all servers are “primary”. Note …
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Server Error in ‘/MultiFactorAuth’ Application

Posted on Updated on by Xander BikbergenCategories:Active Directory, Azure, Azure MFA Server

We recently switch over the Azure MFA Server (on-prem) solution and during our test we did not experience any problems. However when we started to onboard our users (approx. 5.000) we received a few calls from users, less than 10, who were unable to sign in to the User Portal. Assuming you didn’t specify any …
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Exchange 2016 CU10 and Exchange 2013 CU21

Posted on Updated on by Xander BikbergenCategories:Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016, Exchange builds, Exchange versions

Microsoft has released Exchange 2016 CU10 and Exchange 2013 CU21. Have a look at the Exchange versions page for more information and links to the Microsoft KB articles and downloads.

Exchange 2016 CU9 and Exchange 2013 CU20

Posted on Updated on by Xander BikbergenCategories:Exchange, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016, Exchange builds, Exchange versions

Microsoft has released Exchange 2016 CU9 and Exchange 2013 CU20. Have a look at the Exchange versions page for more information and links to the Microsoft KB articles and downloads.

Dynamic AD Security groups

Posted on Updated on by Xander BikbergenCategories:Active Directory, PowerShellScript

Active Directory does not offer any build in Dynamic Security groups, whereas Exchange does offer Dynamic Distribution lists. So to solve this problem you could run a PowerShell script based on users in an OU. The script below will scan one or more OU’s and add each user account to the AD Security group you …
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How to fix: Get-ADGroupMember : The size limit for this request was exceeded

Posted on Updated on by Xander BikbergenCategories:Active Directory, PowerShellScript

Working in a larger Active Directory environment I occasionally got the error:

When trying to read all the members (recursively) of an AD Group. This was annoying since in the alternatives are limited especially when using the -recursive option. You could try with:

or

However these don’t have the recursive option. And …
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