We recently saw an issue with Azure AD self-service password reset (SSPR). It’s been working fine for us for ages, ever since we first configured it using DirSync, but recently users started seeing the following message: Get back into your account Please contact your admin We’ve detected that your user account password …

I was recently in the position that I needed to rebuild a workstation at a remote location, but wanted to end up with it joined to the domain, and able to install software via the SCCM Software Center. Enter Offline Domain Join (djoin.exe)! Offline Domain Join allows the creation of a machine account and the …

Building a Hyper-V virtual machine from scratch almost always seems to involve mounting an ISO image at some point during the installation process. I suspect that like us, many other organisations already have a network location in which we store ISO images. The ability to mount an ISO image from our usual network …

SharePoint can use multiple domains for user authentication, however I recently came across an issue when setting up an extranet using this scenario. The steps for setting up SharePoint 2007 to use multiple domains for user authentication are relatively simple: Add the second domain as a user profile source in the SSP …

I recently saw the above error on a SharePoint 2007 install of a test system. Reading a few blog posts, it seemed that most people were reporting the error as an issue when there was a problem with communication between the SharePoint server on which the wizard was being run and the domain controller it was connecting …

If you store large files in SharePoint 2007 and are using webdav to access them (Explorer View uses webdav for example), you may be seeing the following error: Cannot Copy : Cannot read from the source file or disk If so, this relates to a registry key which is set on the local machine to limit the maximum file …

To add domain users to a local machine group using Group Policy, we need to use the Restricted Groups feature. For the example shown below, I’ll be using a Windows Server 2003 domain functional level. Create a new global/universal security group in Active Directory to contain the users which you wish to add to the …